12 Christmas Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Travel Agent
12 Christmas gift ideas for your favorite travel advisor Are you stuck trying to come up with Christmas gift ideas yet again? If you live with a travel agent, you’ve probably searched for travel-related gifts 1,000 times. And 1,000 times Google has offered suggestions like luggage tags, passport cases, and water bottles. Yawn… So boring. […]
Are You Inspiring Your Clients to Travel More?
Why you should be inspiring your clients to travel If you’re a travel advisor, it’s actually pretty easy to get people to want your product. Honestly, who doesn’t have “travel more” as one of their life goals? But in a market strongly influenced by social media, competition for the traveler’s attention is fierce. Travel providers […]
Responsible Travel: 9 Ways to Preserve Destinations We Love
Responsible Travel: 9 Ways to Preserve Destinations We Love Tourism is on the rise everywhere with tourist arrivals hitting a high of 1.6 billion in 2018. This is great news for travel professionals, but it also presents some very real difficulties for the destinations we love. The overwhelming number of tourists flocking to popular destinations […]
8 Ways to Stay Productive During Slow Season
Don’t just wait for the phone to ring. Do you look for ways to stay productive during slow season? Slow season for many travel agents usually hits sometime in the fall and continues through the holidays. This can vary, of course, depending on what type of travel services you offer and who your clients are. […]
Best Airline Consolidator: 5 Reasons to Use Centrav
Why Centrav is the Best Airline Consolidator for Travel Agents What is an airline consolidator? An airline consolidator holds contracted rates with airlines to sell seats at a discounted price. The consolidator then sells these seats to travel advisors at this lower rate. Because these fares are so competitive, a travel advisor can add a mark […]
How to Become a Travel Agent: Picking a Host Agency
How to Become a Travel Agent: Picking a Host Agency So you’ve decided to become a travel agent. You’ve done the research, and you’ve picked a travel niche to focus on. You know you want to work through a host agency, but how to do you choose one? This important decision will determine how you operate […]
How to Utilize Instagram for your Travel Agency
With over 1 billion monthly users, Instagram has become an increasingly popular social media platform, especially among businesses. From features such as Story and Story Highlights, all the way to Shoppable posts, Instagram has changed the playing field for many small businesses. In fact, 60% of users have sought out and discovered new products just by […]
Outsmart the Facebook Algorithm for Your Small Business
New Facebook rules may hurt small businesses In January of 2018, Facebook released a new algorithm that limits business pages’ organic display of content. You might have seen this as a positive change if you were feeling frustrated by the content of your newsfeed. However, this has some negative implications for small business owners, like travel […]
Top 8 Things Successful People Do Each Morning
How successful people start their days If one were to take a wild guess as to the things successful people do each morning, you might assume their days start pretty chaotic and full. Do they jump right into their huge to-do lists, check emails, and run out the door with their phone in one hand […]
Top 5 Ways to Use Social Media for Your Travel Agency
The world at your fingertips When it comes to offering “likable” content on social media, travel agents honestly have it really, really easy. You are knowledgeable about an appealing product that people are actively researching online. Your industry is constantly changing, providing you with fresh, travel-related content your followers want to see. Imagine if you were […]