"I see a lot of older men in your videos.
I'm a 25 year old guy just out of college, looking to travel and came up on the site.
Am I too young to go on a tour?
Will the tour even make sense for me?"
[Anna] You're on the younger side, I definitely give you that,
but we did--I mean--I was on tour with a guy who was 27.
Actually had [someone who was] 21 years old on the tour once.
That was interesting.
I think he had some challenges simply because women had a hard time to believe
that he's serious at this age because they base their experience on the
local dating [scene] and usually at this age, local guys are not ready to commit.
So they were looking at that other guy, thinking like,
"So what're you doing here?"
"What's your problem?"
We do have some younger guys, and that's great.
We just probably need a little bit more help from matchmakers
and our office staff, so they can tell girls that you actually
are serious, and you are looking for life-partners--and not just to have fun.
As far as seeing more older guys in the video:
well, first of all, define older.
The second, I would say the average age of guys that we do have on group tours--depending
on destinations--are probably guys in their mid 40s, early 50s.
We do have guys in their mid-30s as well,
but the problem is--for the most of it--is guys who're retired refuse to be being filmed.
The reason is well, they finished their careers,
and the younger guys usually they have very successful financial careers going on,
and they're a little uncomfortable that you have their faces on the internet--which okay I get it.
Nobody--you know--they don't want their colleagues to discover them on dating websites
It's bad enough when somebody swipes your profile on tinder. That's kind of
embarrassing but once they find your profile in an international dating website, that's even--you
know--it's more uncomfortable, so they prefer not being filmed,
so we do have quite a few younger guys that just prefer not to be in the video.
"What makes a group tour different versus traveling on your own?"
[Anna] Well, the group tour--in my opinion--a little bit better option,
especially if it's your first time in Ukraine or the Philippines or Latin America.
No matter where you go.
First of all, because you meet more people; so with individual tours,
you have a limit on the number of introductions that you're gonna have.
So 20, 30, whatever it is you're doing--which is a lot too, don't get me wrong.
With the group tour, the main benefit, besides the number of dates not limited, is going to socials.
Socials are basically like a speed dating event, so you see like 200 people
right away and of course not all those 200 people will be in your age group.
Not everybody you'll be physically attracted to,
so in this 200 people, first of all, use your interpreter to help you pre-screen people.
So, let's imagine you spot 10-15 girls that you visually like because you don't know who
they are, whether they like you or not.
So visually you like 10-15 people, then you send your interpreter to just have a
quick talk with them and just pre-screen, maybe get the age because if you're looking for
whatever it is the age you're looking for, she can go pre-screen them, what age,
whether they have kids, or whatever other deal-breakers you might have.
She can do pre-screen save your time, and if they match with
the ideal criteria you have in mind, you come over, you talk,
exchange phone numbers, you talk for 10-15 minutes and carry on and go talk to another one.
Nobody will take offense.
This way you have a bunch of those mini-days just a lot of pre-screening going on.
So the next time when you go out with this girl that you met at the social, you already know there
is a mutual interest because she already--she didn't show up basically on the blind date.
She already has seen you.
She knows who you are.
She knows the basics about you; and the same thing, you already know how she looks like.
Maybe you would overlook her profile on the website and the same thing
maybe she would never come across your profile, but it's life and you met her.
So that's a good thing and another thing because you're in a group,
you're making friends with other guys, which is really helpful too.
Because it helps to have a wingman.
You can share your experience.
When you're not going on the dates you always have--if
you want to socialize and hang out with other guys--you can always do it.
Nobody will force you and make you talk to other people.
But for the most of it, guys meet for breakfast every morning because breakfast that's 9 o'clock
or so, so everybody goes down and just shares their experience, from how the previous dates
went and just--you get guys' perspective on your dating and if you need advice.
We're happy to share our experiences--
but that's a woman's perspective, which is important too--
but you want to have men's perspective and see what they have to say about it too.
And you can always go on double dates.
You can do things together and what if you and your buddy gets engaged too:
in the near future, your fiancées can start talking to each other.
They will make friends.
They'll make connections later on down the road when everybody gets married.
You can stay in touch as couples because those girls will help each other to integrate; and
here in the United States, they will have their own support group, which is really helpful
and when you go on your own it's great, but you just don't have that kind of support.