It has been fantastic to be at the bustling European Dive Shows and Fairs once again – a true sign that ‘normality’ in the world of holidays and dive travel has eventually returned! During January 2023 the Euro-Divers Team were at the Paris Dive Show and Boot Düsseldorf, both of which were a huge success with many, many visitors, trade stands and a great atmosphere and the buzz one feels when excited about travel and forthcoming holidays! It was great to see so many of our repeater guests there and to meet those of you who came to chat about visiting us for the first time.
Paris Dive Show 6-9th January 2023
Odile, Thomas, Jan, and Christian represented Euro-Divers at the Paris Dive Show, they were amongst 400 other exhibitors greeting 60,500 visitors over the 4 days. The team enjoyed chatting to lots of visitors who were interested in a wide variety of destinations and were looking forward to travelling again in 2023 and making bubbles with friends!
The VR experience was a big success with a lot of youngsters discovering the immersive experience of diving. Repeaters were also very enthusiastic about the close-to-reality feeling it provides.
The next Paris Dive Show will be from 11th to 14th January 2024, and it will be their 25th Anniversary – Euro-Divers is planning to be there, are you?
Boot Düsseldorf 21-29th January 2023
Andre, Thorsten, Jan, Martine, Sebastian, Susanne, Bernhard, Marion and Jose attended Boot Düsseldorf, along with over 1,500 other exhibitors from 68 nations in the 16 exhibition halls! Just under 237,000 people attended the show over the 9 days – a resounding success and shows that people are ready to travel again.
The team loved seeing numerous repeater clients as well as giving information to lots of visitors who were eager to book a trip for the first time. Amongst destinations people were interested in visiting soon were Maldives, Egypt, and Spain. As with the Paris show, the VR was a huge hit with visitors thrilled by ‘diving;’ with mantas and sharks amongst the beauty of the underwater world of the Maldives!
Boot Düsseldorf will return next year from 20th to 28th January 2024 – make a note in your diary and we’ll see you there!
Everything started with my Open Water Course at Koh Tao, Thailand. I’m hooked with the first breath I took underwater – this magical and peaceful world with all these different colors and creatures made me forget about everything else. It felt like an addiction.
This time made me realize that I don’t want to keep diving only as a hobby. I wanted to become a Diving Instructor and make diving my profession.
I was working as an entertainer in one of the resorts in South Male atoll. The first time I tried diving I absolutely fell in love with it, so every day off I would go diving.
I was lucky enough to meet people from Euro-Divers who helped me complete my instructor course and employment later on.
That trip changed everything. Since 2014, I visited more than 50 countries in three continents.
2019, 2020, 2021 – still in Maldives, enjoying what I love the most.
Im sonnigen Süden (Ägypten) lernte ich im Urlaub die unglaubliche Unterwasserwelt bei einem Schnuppertauchgang kennen und lieben.
Anfangs arbeitete ich im Tauchcenter im Büro, mir wurde jedoch schnell klar, dass ich die Gäste nicht nur über Wasser sondern auch unter Wasser begleiten wollte. Somit machte ich die Divemaster Ausbildung.
I studied Hotel management and ended up working for several years in different Hotels/Resorts around Italians seaside where I spend my days off diving and achieving the Dive Master rating.
I choose to stay in Oman because of its unspoiled dive site, beaches and many undiscovered dive places! We do not have mass tourism here and the country itself is spectacular besides being the safest place to live in.
Bored and burnt out of the stressful life in Holland, I quit my job as Manager Back Office & Finance and I went to Curacao for holiday. On this tropical island I took my first breaths under water with Instructor Marc, who is still my buddy in life.
Diving keeps me grounded, relaxed and connected with Mother Nature (myself). It supports me to let go, to put things into perspective and it helps me to stay focused and balanced in my position as a manager.
But diving was not at all my purpose of the journey, in fact I was not even a diver yet, I became a diver after I got passionate in freediving in Egypt in 2012 while freediving with dolphin in the wild, eager to become a snorkeling guide, I did my life guard licence and then my PADI open water!
I love freediving but scuba diving is an all other story for me, learning scuba diving make you discover part of yourself you didn’t know, you learn to control things that you would have never imagined possible, I regularly see many of my students discovering how calm they can be underwater when in life they tend to be hyperactive and then in the other hand I see calm or introverted persons becoming excited and move like a torpedo underwater 🙂 so diving might not be for everyone but it is definitely to discover!
I decided after my hospitality studies to enter this fascinating new world. I have started my career in Club Med as Guest Service and had the opportunity to travel some of the famous destinations for diving or snorkeling.
I am the perfect example of someone who was scared of diving, the only advice I could give is to believe in yourself.
But since I was young, I knew I wanted to travel the world, to go on adventures, have fun and meet people from everywhere. Unfortunately, those jobs didn’t give me the opportunity to do it so after 5 years I decided to move to Thailand.
Scuba Diving is a sport of passion.
During this time, I wanted to try something new, so I started scuba diving and I will never forget my first underwater experience. I felt nervous at first but at the same time a lot of excitement.
Some people might think that diving is a difficult sport, but there are many ways to enjoy safe diving for any age or gender.
