| May 2003 | Austin visits Riga for the first time on a reconnaissance mission to find a football team to play his team from the UK during August Bank Holiday. | ||||||
| August 2003 | Despite arranging the games of football, Austin’s footie team failed to secure good flight prices to Riga, hence the tour had to be cancelled. However, Austin visited Riga for 2 weeks anyway! (He had intended to go on a road trip in to Estonia but the pull of Riga was too hard to escape). | ||||||
| September-December 2003 | Austin had been well and truly ‘riga-washed’...work and life was going ok in the UK but he felt he had to go back to investigate further. He felt that the place was almost too good to be true..there had to be a catch! | ||||||
| December 31st 2003 | Austin arrives in Riga. | ||||||
| January 2004 | Whilst in the UK Austin arranged a creative partnership project between a school in the Riga with one in the UK. ‘Talking Pictures’ enabled young students to communicate via internet with photos and comments. | ||||||
| February 2004 | For fun Austin begins to run bar and club excursions for people staying in hostels in Riga. | ||||||
| June 2004 | Austin begins to realise that there could be a business here and begins charging party goers for the tour and begins working with many of the bars and clubs in Riga. | ||||||
| August 2004 |
The bar and club excursions are a huge success...Austin creates a website and becomes officially ‘self-employed’ in Riga. Creative partnership project finishes with an exhibition in Congress Nams Riga |
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| January 2005 | Many of the partygoers need entertaining in the daytime as well as evening. Austin realises that there is so much to do and wants to make the inaccessible accessible. Daytime activities are launched on the website. | ||||||
| March 2005 | Austin begins playing football in Riga. The birth of Riga Out There sport Tours. | ||||||
| January 2006 | The workload is too great...Austin needs people to support the expanding business, he employs Danija and Linda and the company is officially registered in Latvia.Riga United FC is established for players from abroad living in Riga and locals…all ‘united for the game’ | ||||||
| July 2006 | Austin visits Tallinn and Vilnius for the first time. | ||||||
| January 2007 | Austin begins to develop Tallinn and Vilnius Out There. | ||||||
| July 2007 | Vilnius and Tallinn launched. New website created to accommodate new destinations websites are launched for Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. New brand created. | ||||||
| February 2008 | Move office in to old town. It was in 2008 when we began to get our first big corporate bookings for Riga. | ||||||
| August 2008 | Move in to the House – begin to manage Hostel | ||||||
| July 2009 | Austin visits Belgrade | ||||||
| September 2010 | Austin purchases the House – the home of Travel Out There | ||||||
| January 2010 | Belgrade launched | ||||||
| July 2010 | Krakow launched | ||||||
| January 2011 | Travel Out There launched | ||||||
| March 2011 | Travel Out There network begins to expand...Budapest, Warsaw, Prague. | ||||||
| September 2011 | Penthouse opens for guests | ||||||
| Today | Continuing to develop Travel Out There in to the leading 'Experience Agency' in Europe |
