#eturia

Specialiștii Eturia au analizat preferințele turiștilor români, iar acestea arată că 60% dintre turiști aleg sejurul în funcție de regimul de mese și preferă micul dejun, 8% demipensiune; 4% pensiune completă; 28% all inclusive.

În funcție de tipul de cazare, aceștia aleg: 60% hoteluri și servicii de 4*; 32% aleg hoteluri și servicii de 5*; 8% aleg hoteluri și servicii de 3*.

Tipul de vacanță în funcție de călător: 55% călătoresc în cupluri; 35% călătoresc în familie; 10% călătoresc single.

Tipul de vacanțe în funcție de personalizare: 80% pachete standard; 20% pachete personalizate – Signature.

Studiul realizat la aniversarea a 18 ani de activitate cuprinde analiza datelor anonimizate colectate de la 90.000 de pasageri. În cei 18 ani de activitate, Eturia a înregistrat vânzări de 188.000.000 euro care s-au transpus printre altele în 300.733 nopți de cazare și un portofoliu impresionant de destinații, peste 150 în jurul lumii. În acești ani, turiștii români au fost călători în peste 30.000 de zboruri, însumând 180.000 ore de zbor și 200.000.000 km (calculat la o viteză medie de 0.8 mach), echivalentul înconjurului Pământului de aproape 5.000 ori.

“Era în vara anului 2006 când am aterizat în Kilimanjaro Tanzania. Am descoperit pentru prima oara Africa din cărțile copilăriei mele. Undeva în zare “zăpezile de pe Kilimajaro” străluceau în lumina amurgului și la câțiva metri de mine maimuțele se hârjoneau în copaci. Câteva zile mai tarziu în Ndutu, o hienă cânta serenade la geamul lodge-ului meu, un grup de girafe se adăpa într-un pârau la câțiva metri de locul unde îmi luam micul dejun și 4 pui de gheparzi învățau să vâneze alergând un iepure. Locul e atât de sălbatic, liniștit și cu adevarat greu de descris în cuvinte… Atunci mi-a încolțit ideea că aș putea să arăt și altor oameni aceste locuri ajutându-i să ajungă aici. Și astfel a încolțit ideea agenție de turism Eturia, iar cîteva luni mai târziu de gândul avea să devină realitate, iar Tanzania a fost și este încă în top cele mai căutate 5 destinatii de vacanță ,” declară Sorin Stoica, CEO Eturia.

Analizând alegerile turiștilor români, de la înființarea Eturia până în prezent, am constatat că aceștia apreciază din ce în ce mai mult vacanțele în care explorează destinații exotice și trăiesc experiențe surprinzătoare, dintre acestea peste 1800 au fost în grupuri cu însoțitor. Printre aceste pachete descoperim: Antarctica și Polul Nord; Trekking pe Kilimanjaro; Plimbări printre gorile în Uganda; Expediții în Borneo pentru fauna extraordinară; Pe urmele civilizațiilor pierdute în America Latină; Căutări istorice în Mongolia; Nunți în jurul lumii.

De asemenea, în topul locurilor preferate de turiștii români se află următoarele destinații:

Say hello to Archer! Enjoy all the crazy, in depth information I am about to give you on his species and himself!

Archer is a very old character of mine, who used to be called "Archer Saggitarius" and was predictably a centaur. Unfortunately that aspect of him didn't fit with the story I had created, so he was in need of Tyler's Patented Retcon Treatment (tm)!

So, now that he's been fixed up... He's what the Voan (most specifically, the Sahn'Voan) refer to as a "moonbeast". They are mammals which reside on one of Eturia's moons. They are a social species who live in large groups (for now, I'm caling them herds). They are similar to many earth animals in that they have a patriarchal caste based system. One male leads a pack, with closely related males allowed within the group, and only the lead male having breeding access to females.

Like all other creatures on Eturia and it's associated planets and moons, they are not binary in gender. Unlike the Voan, however, males and females are common, while third gender members of the species are rarer (and generally delegated as den-watchers, looking after babies, and so on). Also, unlike the Voan, third gender members of the species are sterile, making it a binary-breeding species only- males can only impregnate females, and females can only be impregnated by males. As a result, homosexuality among the species, while it occurs, is taboo. There is no use for male on male or female on female relations, so gay members are treated much in the same way as third gender (similarly useless to the herd), if not outright exiled. They are not a very cultured species either. They are intellegent, have a language and complex social interaction, but things like music and art don't really matter to them. This, (coupled with their behavior that appears and can infact be brutally violent and the fact that their language sounds very primitive to Voan ears) leads Voan to believe they are insentient.  They are however very much sentient and emotional people, leading to vicious battles for supremacy between males that involves headbutting, grappling, dueling with their chin-plates, and even loud bellows. They are territorial with huge herd territories that rarely overlap. They are omnivorous, eating low lying plants, fallent fruits (as they are terrible climbers, they resort to eating the dropped food left behind by birds and smaller mammals). They also hunt smaller creatures than themselves, and do at times cannibalize lone members of their species if they stray into herd territory. They walk on the knuckles of their primary arms, using their smaller, secondary arms to grip branches, fruits and other food items. The large, strong claws on their primary arms are also used for stripping bark to eat, and clawing apart bug nests for delicious, protein filled grubs. Their feet end in broad toes with hoof-like claws that give them great stability when standing on their hinds to reach for food or perform a threat display.

They stand between 5 and 8 feet at the shoulder (with females being smaller). When standing on their rear legs, they can stand as tall as 14 feet (though that would be a very large individual, common height is around 10-12').They are heavy, broad, and not capable of long term speed, but are extremely fast in short bursts, with ramming speeds ranging from 120 to 150 km/h. Their spines are not extremely flexible, a bit less than a humans is. They are very strong, however, and have thicker at the neck. The top of the head and back of the neck have very thick bone plating that they use to ram into each other, enemies, trees, and whatever else gets in their way. Their tusks face the rear and slightly outward- these and the bony chin plates are smaller in females than in males, and are very small, sometimes non existant, in third gender members of the species. They have very little hair on their bodies, usually seen as a mane on the back of their neck and running down their spine in some that live in slightly cooler places. Their front teeth are a solid plate on their top and bottom jaw that have a sharp edge, bordered by large canines (again, smaller in females and third-genders). These teeth are perfect for slicing through many of the tough plants they eat (some of which are similar to earth bamboo).They also are great at slicing chunks of meat from prey animals.Their large nostrils make it easy for them to get lots of oxygen, needed for their short sprints, and their vocal threat displays.

  The Voan are the dominant sentient species on the planet of Eturia. There are several races within the Voan, each suited to various environments, though are fully able to adapt to a cosmopolitan existance. Though subraces and tribes exist among the voan there is not enough taxinomical difference or evidence to give each their own unique place among the voan, so the races are grouped into the major groups with subgroups identified solely by tribal or ethnic affiliation and are not seen as being scientifically and biologically unique.

  The Voan are synapsids- mammal like reptiles- who retain some reptilian habits such as sun basking, despite their ability to regulate their body temperatures to some level. They have skin, not scales, and do not have any body hair, though most races grow long tendrils on their heads, much like tentacles. These are often treated as hair by the voan, and can be tied back or left loose. The voan are able to control these tendrils individually. Voan have 6 limbs- one main pair of arms used for both locomotion and manipulation of objects, a minor pair of arms that is used mostly for holding objects, and a pair of legs used for locomotion. The main hands have 3-4 fingers and 2 thumbs (on either side of the palm), and the feet follow the same pattern as the hands. The hands of the minor arms have only 2 fingers and 1 thumb, All Voan have tails- the length and use of the tail is dependant on race. All Voan are capable of bipedal and quadrepedal locomotion, save for the Ra'Voan who are capable of only quadrepedal on land and on sea floor, while they are very skillful swimmers.

  Voan have black sclera and pupils, with a light colored iris. Their nostrils are long and slitted, and capable of opening up wide to take in extra air or closing tight to protect against the elements. Their teeth are, for the most part, omnivorous in dentition, with sharp, cutting and gripping canines, flat molars, and slicing/chopping front teeth. The only exception are the sharp conical teeth of the Ra'Voan who eat a diet of mostly fish and small marine invertibrates. Voan tongues are long and prehensile, capable of wrapping around branches to better reach vegetation.

  The main physical difference between voan races are the length, diameter, and number of tendrils, shape and length of tail, color and markings of skin. They differ further by way of culture, language, and territory.

  All voan give live birth to a single or a pair of offspring, called kittens or kits. Large family units are common among the Ra'Voan, Tor'Voan, and Sahn'voan. These may include an entire clan raising kittens together, or multiple mated pairs (or rarely, a group of mates) who raise all the kittens. Among the other races, kits are raised by one parent, sometimes two. Voan raise their children to a mature age much like humans do, and some races keep the children within the family unit for their entire lives.

  Voan speak a unified language and unique racial languages. The unified language spoken is referred to as "Eturian". The racial languages are more or less dialects of this main language, though some are more far removed than others.