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[Yaya]

Has anyone been here yet? I hear it's rapidly growing as a tourist destination.

[BoholDiver]

Is that the place on Luzon, near Donsol?

I checked it out and it looked nice, butaccording to PADI website, there are no dive shops there.

[Summer Wine]

Wouldn't that make it a winner for you.

Throw up a shack on the beach, buy 4 diving outfits, a compressed air generator, a fridge, stack it full of cold beer.

There you go. Your first initial start to the Dive resort community.

If you had any money left over rent or buy a boat.

That seems like too much hard work, throw in with 3 other ESL teachers in Korea. You each do 3 months runnning the place and the rest of the time, timing your contracts back in Korea.

Sure it might take a while to make any serious money but as you are the first on the ground it may make something and it gives you an excuse to spend 3 months on the beach or diving each year.

What have you got to lose. You might even just throw it up as a way to pay for your holiday. Market it to all your mates and esl teachers online. Market it well and it becomes the next big esl (holiday) market for teachers needing to escape for the winter.

Call the Dive shop the "Drunken ESL D(r)iver". I mean there are a ton of esl teachers who arent ready to go home, but need something to do in thier retirement. Look long term, you start up a franchise around S.E.A. add in "Drunken (esl) Bars, restaurants etc.

A retirement option for all the long and short term teachers who dont know what to do with thier lives.

[BoholDiver]

You joke about it, but I would consider that sort of plan if I had the capital.

It is possible that the PADI website hasn't been updated or some other reason why the site has none listed.

[Summer Wine]

well if you decide to do it, pm.

Its one reason I am working on my degree in Hotel and tourism management. Cant be a teacher for ever.

If I aim to retire in S.E.A. I want the skills to support myself while I do it.

[BoholDiver]

If my lottery numbers ever come up, count on me opening a business somewhere in SE Asia. Diving shop, small hotel, restaurant, or the like.

Until then, no.

[Yaya]

You don't need to win a lottery to set up a biz in SE Asia, just a modest amount of capital and partners you can trust.

[BoholDiver]

[Yaya]