This Travel Agency Will Take Your Stuffed Animals on a Vacation Across Japan

[conuly]

http://bit.ly/1fYhBlo

1. That is really adorable.
2. I wonder what the market is for that? I mean, if it is at all profitable there has to be a similar niche in NYC, right? I'm sure our various moose would enjoy going on a field trip sans kids for a change. (Less chance of getting lost!)

Comments

[zhelana]

Man. The Japanese are weird.

[conuly]

Maybe.

[redbird]

This would require a certain amount of faith in not only the travel agency, but the postal service or other carrier not to lose or damage the animal in question. I don't think I'd risk it. But I don't even trust my bear to checked luggage; I travel without her.

[conuly]

Well, if you can't sleep without your favorite bear you send your least favorite instead, right? : )

[janewilliams20]

I'm pretty sure I've seen something like that before, but not in Japan. A quick Google, and...
Finland, including Santa

Prague

and a spa in the New Forest - serious bear restoration, quite apart from the champagne and deckchairs

Daft though it may sound, you live in an iconic city with photo opportunities for bears. That might just be worth doing the research.

[conuly]

The only real cost here is admission fees for tour buses and the like. But spread the cost around a few stuffed animals....

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it's at all profitable, perhaps I could take peoples' stuffed animals on vacations around the scenic Olympic Peninsula!

I can't imagine it not being profitable. People mail their stuffies with $35.00 to $55.00, which covers return postage and a DVD of photos of the tour - all one has to do is travel around and take cute pictures of them in scenic places; they don't need to be fed or entertained, and they can sleep in a laundry basket in the car. There's almost no overhead, so even if clients were few, each one would bring in a profit.

I bet some of the stuffies in those photos are actors, though, not real clients.

[conuly]

Of course, the better scenic places all cost money, still, you could do tiered tours.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Not here they don't; I've already got a yearly pass for Olympic National Park and one for Dungeness Wildlife Refuge - all it'd cost me is the gas to drive around, and I drive around to those places all the time anyway; I wouldn't mind packing a sack o' stuffies along to get their pictures took.

If enough people in cool places around the world started running stuffie-tours, pretty soon a stuffie could go on a world tour, being mailed from one 'tour guide' to the next. This lady in Japan ought to think about franchising, before somebody else does.