What is a Travel Intrapreneur (at Ventura TRAVEL)?

Definition of Travel Intrapreneur

Our Intrapreneur program is designed for people with an entrepreneurial mind who want to show the world of what they are capable without having to start from zero and build everything from scratch. In order to do that, you will start or take over a proper touristic branch within Ventura TRAVEL and become the decision maker for this brand.

This picture sums up the idea of our program pretty well, we believe :)

Will I be an employee or an Entrepreneur?

You'll be right in the middle of the two. The longer you will be leading your Ventura brand, the more it will feel like being an Entrepreneur. At the beginning, while you receive training and get on-boarded, it will feel more like an employee.

Compared to traditional employment contracts, you will have much more freedom and a bigger role in the decision-making process regarding:

• where you will work and where you will set up an office for the Ventura brand (we don't expect you to build it up in the Ventura HQ in Berlin, but you can, if you think it makes sense)
• the name of the new Ventura, the logo, the vision, the vision and the values of your brand
• employment decisions in your team
• as Ventura's mission is to create & support specialized travel brands that change the world for the better, as an Intrapreneur you are very core to overall Ventura strategy decisions
• if the new brand requires a new company to be founded (because, for example, in the location we don't have an office yet) you would become the General Manager of this company

Compared to starting your own company, there are some aspects, that are rather typical of being employed (compared to starting your own company):

• you don't have to invest any proper money (your investment is your brain)
• you get a competitive salary right from the start and will participate both in the success of your brand and the success overall of Ventura TRAVEL
• you are not a shareholder of the Ventura (find out in this article why intrapreneurs don't get equity)

What do you mean by "new brand" or "niche market" that an Intrapreneur is responsible for?

Ventura TRAVEL's mission is to create & support specialized travel brands that change the world for the better. Our goal is to create one brand for each niche we decide to enter. This niche can be:

- a destination like India, Scandinavian countries or the USA and Canada region

- a niche based on lifestyle travel, like bicycle travel, vegan food travel or a brand of trips that focus on spirituality and healing

- a new brand could also focus on a specific customer segment, like family travel or single female travel, etc.

We don't have a fixed mindset of what is a niche and what not. If in doubt, submit your idea, and we take a look at it and give you fast feedback.

The program is made for team players

If you like to succeed with a team, then we believe you are a good fit. The idea of the program is that you can focus on the touristic product and its sales & organization, while Ventura TRAVEL is putting their muscles in IT, Marketing, HR, Design, Finance & Legal. So you can focus on everything where key niche knowledge is crucial, Ventura TRAVEL provides you the framework for everything else, where we can rely on experiences and success from other niches/brands.

Let me try to make this concept clearer with 2 pictures ;)

Here is our Intrapreneur Jonathan, who started the brand Puraventura.  You can see him with his two first employees, Marion and Elodie.

They're a great team, but a rather small one. It would be hard for them alone to take care of all the day-to-day challenges that one encounters when starting a new company.

And this is what it looks like if you have the support of the Ventura Team. Right from the start you receive help from our IT experts, you have access to our back-end software, you will get a new shiny, responsive, well-designed website adapted to your needs, you will have the support of the world's best (and most fun) finance, marketing and HR team. Also, you will work hand in hand with Francesca, who will share her experience in creating and leading to success our brand dedicated to Japan, Japaventura. And last, but not least, you will get precious insights from Andre, the CEO of Ventura, who will make sure you get all the resources and support you need to succeed. 

What are your benefits for Ventura?

Why is Ventura bothering to offer such a program? Other companies would just start a department, then start to employ the right people and then start the business. The simple answer: we strongly believe in travel specialists and people being able to build up an organization around their passion.

When you want to eat Thai food, and you have the choice to go to a Thai restaurant or a restaurant that serves Italian, Thai and Mexican food, which restaurant would you prefer? Most likely the Thai restaurant because they specialize in Thai food, and therefore it's more likely that you have an authentic experience.

We see the same in travel. We live in a world, where a few global touristic corporations have gained more and more market share. The quality of their touristic offer is far inferior to that of specialists in the destination. But those specialized operators can't compete in Marketing, Finance Processes, video productions, technical solutions or in data science with those global players and therefore are not visible to many travelers.

Ventura TRAVEL on the other hand, as a group of specialists, has centralized these areas and in order to compete with those global players. Find more background about the idea and birth of Ventura TRAVEL here.

If these sounds appealing to you, please see our Careers page. We are always open for applications, either to start a new brand as a Ventura Intrapreneur or within an existing brand to extend the reach of that brand to a new source market.

Browse through the Ventura Careers.

Update: Find out how many people applied, how hard it is to become an Intrapreneur and for what niches we receive most applications.