086 |Building a Business Under the Stars with Kelly Kuhn
About this episode
Kelly Kuhn shares her journey in building award-winning tourism businesses and the importance of collaboration in the face of challenges.
In this episode, Despina sits down with Kelly Kuhn, the experience maker behind Juggle House Experiences and River Murray Dark Sky Tours in regional South Australia. Kelly shares her journey from a country farm and a tourism degree into government policy roles, local council leadership as deputy mayor, and ultimately into running not one but two award-winning tourism businesses. She opens up about the pivotal meeting that launched her into astro tourism, the resilience required to survive COVID and one-in-one-hundred-year Murray River floods just as her business was finding its feet, and the deeply emotional moments when guests see the Milky Way for the first time and burst into tears. Along the way Kelly unpacks what regional collaboration really looks like when competitors become partners, why protecting your peace matters as much as building your business, and how place-making, agritourism, and community can turn a dark night sky into something worth heritage listing for future generations. In this episode you'll learn: How a single meeting of five competitors in a motel room sparked a whole new astro tourism industry, and why they chose collaboration over a competitive SWOT…
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