Young Pioneer Tours

How I Started A Not Normal Tour Company [North Korea, Iraq, Antarctica]

Gareth Johnson
4
Founders
10
Employees
Young Pioneer Tours
from Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
started January 2008
4
Founders
10
Employees
market size
$540B
avg revenue (monthly)
$74.7K
starting costs
$18K
gross margin
90%
time to build
270 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
Subscriptions & Memberships
best tools
Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
40 Pros & Cons
tips
18 Tips
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My name is Gareth Johnson and I am the Managing Director and founder of the adventure travel company Young Pioneer Tours.

We originally formed as a company 14 years ago specializing in North Korean tours, and before the pandemic, we were the leading company. We have since branched out to off-the-wall places like Iran, Iraq, Antarctica, and unrecognized countries. We are not your normal travel agency.

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What's your backstory and how did you get into entrepreneurship?

I was born in the UK and left school without going to university. I did several sales jobs before running a small business involved in after-school childcare. Overall though I wasn't doing much in the UK, so moved to the layman Islands as a bartender, and ended up working on cruise ships before ending up teaching English in China.

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