Introduction

This is a brief intro and I recommend all listeners start here.

Transcript

Participant #1:

Hello and welcome to the Madagascar Travel Show, where we are going to take you on a journey to the beautiful island nation of Madagascar. Join us, well, me, as I help you to explore the diverse culture, the stunning landscapes, the unique wildlife, the amazing regions, national parks and marine adventures that make this destination truly special. From the bustling streets of Antananarivo to the remote rainforests, I'm going to be helping you, by sharing stories, tips and insights, to help you plan your own adventure to Madagascar. So get ready to pack your bags and get ready to discover one of the most fascinating and off the beaten path destinations in the world. This is the Madagascar Travel Show.

Participant #1:

This being our pilot, I would like to give you a little bit of background about myself. My name is Brett. I own the travel company based in Madagascar called Dadamanga. I am Australian and I've been in Madagascar for 25 years. I am the destination expert for Madagascar in the TripAdvisor travel forum. I am president of my regional tourism office. I've spent a couple of years on the board of the National Tourism Office. My company is a member of the Professional Tour Operators Association of Madagascar, and my company is a member of the Confederation of Tourism of Madagascar. We are entirely qualified to give you tips and tricks and travel information about this incredible country, and I plan to spend the next year doing just that. My intention is to release one long episode, around 30 minutes every two weeks. And in between those, I will launch about three short, five minute, short & sharp episodes that just deal with some specific small subjects. My intention is to be chatty, be myself. This is not a very glamorous, well produced show. I'm not working in a studio. I'm here in my office, and there are cars driving by which you will hear from time to time, so get used to that. But apart from that, I am certainly very well qualified to talk to you about this extraordinary place. I aim to get into as much detail as possible. What I want to try and do is in the first couple of episodes, give you the basics, so that even if you don't care what I have to say about regions, parks, hotels, you still gather the basic information about visas, travel, entry to the country, how to deal with money, some basic facts in the first few episodes. So over the next month, I will be trying to cover all of those things. So even if you don't care about what I have to say in detail, you will at least in a month, be able to gather everything you need. Now, I know a month sounds like a long time, but I hope that some of you are travelling to work on the train or listening to my boring voice to put you to sleep. I don't know when you're going to be listening to me, but I feel like most people allow at least a month when preparing a trip to Madagascar, so hopefully this will be adequate. Then we'll get into the details as we go a bit further along. So right now, I'm actually going to call this episode quits, let you have a little break and move on to the next episode where I'm just going to get straight into it, okay? Thanks for joining me. 

This has been the Madagascar Travel Show presented by Brett from Dadamanga. 

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