Semi Absentee and Highly Profitable Tourist Based Business

Listing Number: 76931-905874

Description

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 2022 sales of $428,874, the overhead and operating expenses for this business are extremely low. The SDE in 2022 was $140,044 and 2023 tax return numbers are shaping up to be even better. 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. We hope you'll enjoy your visit to Galveston and you'll tell friends about our tours.

Historic Galveston Ghost Tour
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

Galveston Red Light District Tour
Join us on a fascinating walking tour of Galveston's Historic Red Light District. We'll walk "THE LINE" where prostitution flourished for over 70 years...and was a tolerated and accepted part of the social and economic fabric on the island. Relive the days when "The Mob" ran the island and vice was king. We visit 8 bordellos that are still standing, the sites of the casinos and bootleg joints that made Galveston "Sin City", The "Interdependent State of Galveston" and "Pleasure Island" on our 1 1/2-hour walking tour of the notorious and once flourishing industry. Meet the ladies, the madams, and houses where prostitution thrived! There is nothing like the history of Galveston's Red Light District anywhere in the country. Our tours are highly recommended and rigorously researched and will be the most memorable 11/2 hour of your trip to Galveston... maybe of your life!

Dark of the Moon Tour
Get ready for a night that you won’t soon forget! We’re combining Galveston’s two most popular tours! Join us for Ghost on the Strand meets Galveston Red Light District Tour.
We’ll start our tour at Post Office, which was once was the heart of Galveston’s red-light district. We’ll walk “The Line” and we guarantee to amaze, shock, and educate you about the vice that once dominated Galveston.
Then we’ll make our way to the historic Strand, where we’ll explore the gory, spooky and fascinating paranormal happenings on the strand…the original street of horror.

Old City Cemetery Tour
The Lady in Black considers the people buried here her friends and is anxious for you to meet them. She will leave no gravestone unturned as you walk gingerly among the graves pointing out the famous, macabre, and infamous spirits that haunt this cemetery. There is no one more qualified to guide you through a paranormal walk with the undead.

Ghost on the Strand
The hurricane’s wind slashed over Galveston Island on September 8, 1900, and unleashed a horror that no one who survived ever forgot. The survivors on THE STRAND were blasted by plague and embroiled in an epic struggle to survive.

Galveston, their island home became a world stripped of its institutions and emptied by the GREAT FLOOD. Only to be filled again by the ghosts they left behind.

Storm on the Strand
THE STRAND in Galveston has seen a horrifying number of sudden deaths. An ungodly number of the islands dearly departed… well never departed. Their spirits are lurking in the shadows, alleys, staircases and stalk THE STRAND every day! The historic 19th century buildings on THE STRAND have become ghost sanctuaries. And the ghosts inside are just dying to meet you. Join us on our ninety-minute walking tour as we explore the gory, spooky and fascinating paranormal happenings on the strand...the original street of horror. Hurricanes, war, fire, and epidemics of diseases! The notorious pirate Jean Lafitte even turned the island into a den of thieves. Galveston has more ghosts than any other city in America.

Spooky Strand Tours
THE STRAND in Galveston has seen a horrifying number of sudden deaths. An ungodly number of the islands dearly departed…well never departed. Their spirits are lurking in the shadows, alleys, staircases and stalk THE STRAND every day! The historic 19th century buildings on THE STRAND have become ghost sanctuaries. And the ghosts inside are just dying to meet you.

Join us as we explore the gory, spooky and fascinating paranormal happenings on the strand...the original street of horror. Hurricanes, war, fire, and epidemics of diseases! The notorious pirate Jean Lafitte even turned the island into a den of thieves. Galveston has more ghosts than any other city in America.

Walking in the night into history, translucent figures will float by the windows that bore witness to tragedy after tragedy. Shadows will suddenly appear, and objects move of their own accord as we huddle closer to one another for are mutual protection. We never know what’s waiting for us around the corners. Beware and be scared! After all Galveston is nothing but “a cemetery with a beach attached.”

GALVESTON'S BEST PUB CRAWL
Prepare to embark on a truly elevated experience. This isn't your average night on the town; this is an exciting journey through Galveston's rich history, where the drinks are hand-crafted and the ambiance is framed by Galveston's unbelievably rich history. This tour will be the most fun thing you do in Galveston. Visiting, new to town or a seasoned local. Our pub crawls are an awesome way to meet new people while learning some of Galveston's incredible history.

Listing Details

• Price: $ 525,000
• Down Payment: $525,000
• Sellers Discretionary Earnings: $ 140,044
• Total Sales: $ 428,874
• Location: Harris County, Texas


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