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Articles tagged “Virtuoso”

Business Travel

High-Touch and High-Tech Find Common Ground With Travel Advisors: Virtuoso CEO

Virtuoso Travel Week drew record attendance to the annual event it likens to Fashion Week. While heavily touting the consortium's new Wanderlist travel planning tool, it also emphasized the human touch.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

High-Touch and High-Tech Find Common Ground With Travel Advisors: Virtuoso CEO

Business Travel

The Super Rich Are Creating New Opportunities for Travel Advisors

Ultra-wealthy travelers are growing in number, and many are willing to pay for expertise in fulfilling their champagne wishes and caviar dreams. However, serving these clients, especially the newly rich, can put advisors to the test.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

The Super Rich Are Creating New Opportunities for Travel Advisors

Business Travel

Mexico Tourism Board Demise Will Hurt the Destination More Than Travel Advisors

The dissolution of the Mexico Tourism Board means that travel advisors and others involved in the selling and marketing of Mexico have lost a major resource. With safety perception issues still dogging Mexico, the timing couldn’t be worse — for the destination and advisors alike.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Mexico Tourism Board Demise Will Hurt the Destination More Than Travel Advisors

Business Travel

Travel Advisors Make the Most of Post-Trip Phone Calls in a Digital World

Following up with clients after a trip is a critical part of the travel-planning process. However, getting clients to truly open up about their experiences takes finesse.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Advisors Make the Most of Post-Trip Phone Calls in a Digital World

Business Travel

Travel Advisors Put the Thrill Back Into Vacation Planning

A growing number of travel advisors are offering mystery vacations, created by keeping trip details a secret from clients until the departure date. It puts the surprise element back in travel, which is something often lost these days, but the challenges for advisors are many.

Maria Lenhart, Skift | 5 years ago

Travel Advisors Put the Thrill Back Into Vacation Planning

Business Travel

Virtuoso Looks to Help Agencies Get Beyond the Daily Grind

Virtuoso is a you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours kind of business. The luxury travel network has some good programs to help member agencies, and that increases engagement with Virtuoso. It also provides learnings on how to keep refining the company.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 5 years ago

Virtuoso Looks to Help Agencies Get Beyond the Daily Grind

Business Travel

Luxury Agency Groups Tackle the Recruitment Conundrum

Today's luxury agent has to be part travel advisor, part business person, and part life coach. Finding candidates with this trifecta of skills is no easy task. That's why a pair of top luxury agency consortia is tackling the recruitment conundrum through education.

Laura Powell, Skift | 5 years ago

Luxury Agency Groups Tackle the Recruitment Conundrum

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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

Business Travel

How Travel Agent Trade Group Fought Its Way Back From Near-Extinction

These travel advisors have a certain swagger about them these days. Their U.S. trade association, the newly named American Society of Travel Advisors, is now back among the living, and has the challenge of keeping things moving in the right direction.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 6 years ago

How Travel Agent Trade Group Fought Its Way Back From Near-Extinction

Business Travel

Luxury Travel Advisors Aim to Put the Person Back in Personalization

Luxury travel advisors can thrive with the help of tech, rather than fear it, according to Matthew Upchurch, CEO of Virtuoso, and Jack Ezon, founder of Embark. Their claim makes intuitive sense.

Sean O'Neill, Skift | 6 years ago

Luxury Travel Advisors Aim to Put the Person Back in Personalization