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Travel Advisor Coverage

Business Travel

Agencies Find Opportunity When Vacations Are Tacked Onto Business Travel

Conventional wisdom says a good travel agent can arrange leisure travel or corporate travel, but not both. Even if it were true, there’s nothing to prevent the agency from selling both leisure and business travel — except believing conventional wisdom.

Fred Gebhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Agencies Find Opportunity When Vacations Are Tacked Onto Business Travel

Business Travel

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: South African Agents Build Trips for the Untraveled

Whether it's an appeal to young black South Africans or seniors who fear paying a single supplement, travel advisors who know the particular needs of their own peer groups can have a built-in advantage.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: South African Agents Build Trips for the Untraveled

Business Travel

Young Black South African Agents Inspire Their Peers to Travel

Personal experience counts when it comes to encouraging young black South Africans to pack their suitcases and discover their own country, say the co-founders of Johannesburg-based Traveling Cheapskates. The co-founders build trips that they'd like to take, too, and feel like they intimately understand their customers.

Richard Holmes, Skift | 5 years ago

Young Black South African Agents Inspire Their Peers to Travel

Business Travel

Travel Specialist Develops a Buddy System for Seniors on Vacation

Senior travel is a lucrative and growing segment, but many seniors stay home because they don’t want to go solo. A travel advisor’s new matching site for seniors may be a modest solution.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Specialist Develops a Buddy System for Seniors on Vacation

Business Travel

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Leading Life-Changing Tours for Women of Color

The owner of Rogue Experiences is a good example of the way that travel advisors, for whom travel is often a second career, can draw on past experiences to reinvent themselves in a fulfilling way.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Leading Life-Changing Tours for Women of Color

Business Travel

Travel Concierge Offers Empowering Experiences for Women of Color

When Danielle Washington plans trips for busy black entrepreneurial women, she draws heavily on her own experiences. That means taking an inner journey as well.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Concierge Offers Empowering Experiences for Women of Color

Business Travel

Rail Tour Operator Rocky Mountaineer Targets Cruisers Through Agent Sales

Rocky Mountaineer relies heavily on travel advisors to sell its luxury train experiences through the Canadian Rockies, but there’s room for improvement. The rail tour company launched a new agent training program to clear up misconceptions about its mode of travel.

Paul Biasco, Skift | 5 years ago

Rail Tour Operator Rocky Mountaineer Targets Cruisers Through Agent Sales

Business Travel

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Virgin and Ritz Cruise Lines Have Brand Loyalty Hopes

Will Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection and Virgin Voyages, two high-end and newbie cruise lines, be able to attract passengers who have never chosen a cruise vacation? The two brands are counting on it.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Virgin and Ritz Cruise Lines Have Brand Loyalty Hopes

Cruises

Ritz and Virgin Cruise CEOs Think Agents Will Benefit From Brand Clout

As they ramp up their outreach to travel advisors, Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection and Virgin Voyages are both presenting themselves as new and different options for luxury clients. They say this means agents will be able to sell cruises to those who don’t normally cruise, but who are intrigued by the brands.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Ritz and Virgin Cruise CEOs Think Agents Will Benefit From Brand Clout

Business Travel

Instagrammer Turned Her Following Into a Luxury Travel Advisor Business

Justyna Smith built up a modest Instagram following, and she's used that, plus word of mouth, to run a four-woman luxury travel agency that's making money. Many businesses decide to market wherever the customers are; in Smith's case, the customers came to her and the business followed.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Instagrammer Turned Her Following Into a Luxury Travel Advisor Business