Very Profitable Tourist Business in Galveston, Mostly Absentee

Listing Number: 76931-905874

Description

**This business can be run with a cell phone and buyer does not have to live in Galveston! Recently nominated by the Galveston Morning News as one of the Top 5 Entertainment Attractions, along with big operations like Schiltterbahn and Moody Gardens.

Established in 2018, Historic Galveston Ghost Tours is the original, premier and #1 Trip Advisor rated walking tour in Galveston, Texas. Every tour offered is a cultivated experience with a script written by the owner. There are currently eight highly trained and engaging tour guides that are capable of conducting up to three tours a night each. Most tours run seven days a week at 6:00, 8:00 and 10:00 PM. WIth gross sales of $444,723 in 2023, the SDE was just under $130,000. In 2022, sales were $428,874 with an SDE of $140,044. The overhead and operating expenses for this business are extremely low. There is a tangible and significant cash aspect of the business that is not a factor in the asking price but should be noted for any prospective buyers.

With a cell phone, an assistant or even a third-party call center, the tours are easily booked over the phone, but online booking is also very popular. Additionally, the business works with third party booking sites like Groupon to book tours. Often, at the start of the tour, people will walk up who want to join and the tour guide will take a cash payment on site. Each guide makes $45 a tour plus tips, so they have ample opportunity to earn a highly competitive wage doing a job that is engaging and fun.

Trip Advisor #1 Rated for Tours in Galveston and #3 Rated in the State of Texas.

Historic Galveston Ghost Tours is your home for authentic historical information on all of Galveston’s best ghost stories. In the spirit of the genre made popular by Dash Beardsley in years past, our ghost tour guides take you on a grand expedition through the historic Silk Stocking District and beyond while you soak in the sights and sounds of the island.

Historic Galveston Ghost Tours specializes in custom events and personalized tours. We guarantee to delight even the most skeptical ghost hunter. Our guides offer a unique, rich history on all that Galveston Island is and was and why this special place is considered the most haunted city in the United States

We specialize in customized group tours for corporate training events, bachelorette parties, high school and grade school tours and daytime tours. We will be glad to help you plan your event and suggest restaurants, hotels and other accommodations.

Your tour guide with years of experiences, from historical consultant to television shows, to the haunted streets of Galveston will have the answers to all of your paranormal questions and is ready to fill your mind with the dark history of Galveston ghosts.

Our tours are meticulously researched and conducted by professional guides who join us from academia. They are designed to scare, entertain and educate. We hope that by joining one of our tours you'll have exciting and memorable experiences to take back home with you. We leave no gravestone unturned to bring you the written and oral histories that make Galveston the ghost capital of America. For the true history buff, we have added the Galveston Red Light District Tour which brings alive the scandalous history of the largest red light district in the United States.

Currently, the business offers the following tours, but any buyer could add and expand:

1. Historic Galveston Ghost Tour
2. Galveston Red Light District Tour
3. Dark of the Moon Tour
4. Old City Cemetery Tour
5. Ghost on the Strand
6. Storm on the Strand
7. Spooky Strand Tours
8. Galveston’s Best Pub Crawl

Listing Details

• Price: $300,000
• Down Payment: $300,000
• Sellers Discretionary Earnings: $129,998
• Total Sales: $444,723
• Location: Harris, Texas


• Inventory: $0
• FF&E: $0
• Employees: 8
• Year Established: 2018
• Reason for Selling: Retiring
• Category: Recreation