Vail, Colorado, gives tourists a wheel experience

Jaws drop as tourists wheel their way through Vail Colorado’s historical district on high tech Segways — courtesy of Sacred Ground’s Coffee House and Delicatessen owner Joel Karr — reports Vail Daily. Segways are computer-gyroscopically-controlled people movers.

Karr, who brought in high tech internet access to his coffeehouse guests, now offers high tech travel tours to the Hot Springs pool, to the Yampah Spa and Vapor Caves and to buildings in the downtown area. The Segway tours are, apparently, as much an attraction as the historical district, with other tourists snapping photos as the party parades by.

While Segway tours exist elsewhere they still are unique enough to atrract a crowd; and what better way to offer mobility to those tourists who cannot walk easily.

Rule 13 “The Rule of Being Unique”, in the book ‘The 25 Immutable Rules of Successful Tourism’ by Roger A. Brooks and Maury Forman, suggests that ‘Inasanity has its own rewards.’ Brooks writes ‘What may seem rather insane to you means (many) thousands of dollars to the community with the idea.” A unique idea can be worth a special trip. That special trip translates into tourist dollars.

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