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Aventur Marketing is a tourism marketing and PR agency focused on driving amazing results for premium travel and tourism businesses, destinations and outdoor gear brands. Powerful storytelling that engages customers and elevates brands is what we do at Aventur.

The Aventur Marketing Team

Our team consists of web developers, content writers, graphic designers, photographers, Google Ads certified PPC specialists, facebook marketing specialists, email marketing pros, SEO experts and PR pros. We have tactical experts for every marketing channel to achieve your business goals.

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Darryl Leniuk | Founder & Chief Strategist

With a background spanning well over a decade working as an adventure travel journalistoutdoor photographer and PR consultant, Darryl brings a powerful skill set to the table for tourism businesses seeking exceptional growth. As a recognized expert in adventure travel, he has worked with tour operators and DMOs in more than a dozen countries, produced hundreds of media articles and won industry awards.

Storytelling is in his DNA, and he excels at getting to the essence of a tourism experience, finding what separates an outfitter or destination from the myriad of competitors out there, and translating that into a strategic marketing plan for growth.

His strategy-before-tactics, results-driven approach has successfully grown direct bookings for premium tourism businesses with an average of over 10X ROI.

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Rachel Richards | Public Relations Specialist

Rachel handles media outreach, FAM tours and finding stories that others often miss. Her roster of journalists know her as a go-to expert who is great to work with and delivers what they need. Rachel has B.A. in Public Relations from Central Washington University and more than a decade of experience working in environment, tourism, and government communications.
When she’s not helping journalists, she spends her time outdoors, hiking and writing about hiking. Rachel is a contributing online writer for explore magazine and maintains her own website of hiking and outdoor recreation articles.


Adam Kendrick | Google and Facebook Ads Specialist

Adam Kendrick is the owner of Protection Advertising, a Google Partner and award-winning PPC agency, and our go-to expert for managing Google PPC and Facebook Ads campaigns for Aventur’s clients. Adam’s extensive paid search management experience combined with Aventur’s tourism marketing strategy creates powerful results for premium tourism businesses. When he’s not geeking-out in a Google Ads account, tweaking things just right, he enjoys spending time with his two kids having outdoor adventures of his own.

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Srushti Pandit | SEO Specialist

A graduate of Toronto’s Seneca College Marketing Program, Srushti is our SEO Expert. Whether it’s finding the best keywords to optimize a page for search engines or creating new content to boost a website’s SEO performance, she is our go-to person for the job. Srushti enjoys meticulous research and getting under the hood of our clients’ online presence using advanced tools like ahrefs app to find opportunities that others have missed.
When she’s not taking a deep dive into search engine algorithms, she likes to spend her time playing competitive volleyball and doing acrylic painting.

Aventur Marketing is a fully-certified Duct Tape Marketing agency, having undergone rigorous training, and ongoing support to stay abreast of the latest developments in online marketing.

The Duct Tape Marketing System that we use is a best-in-class, strategy-before-tactics model that has been used to grow thousands of businesses in dozens of different industries around the world. This powerful, proven system perfectly compliments our background in tourism and media and will work to grow bookings for your tourism business too!

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John Jantsch, Founder, Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch is a marketing consultant, speaker and best selling author of Duct Tape Marketing, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine, The Referral Engine, and SEO for Growth. He is the creator of the Duct Tape Marketing System and Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network

The Advantages of Working with Us
  • Deep experience and knowledge of the Tourism Industry.
  • Proven Strategy-Before-Tactics system that gets results.
  • PR Pros to grow awareness of your business.
  • Digital Marketing Experts to compliment your in-house staff.
  • Way. More. Bookings.
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“Darryl's tourism SEO strategies and extensive adventure marketing experience have taken us from an unrecognizable tourism operator into a successful and recognized business.”

Wesley Gibson,
Owner, At The Water's Edge Adventures

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