Travel Agents

This extensive archive provides up-to-date news, trends, and insights relevant to travel agents, including travel advisors, travel agencies, at-home agents, and firms of all sizes.

Designed for professionals working in the travel industry, these news stories offer valuable information on the evolving landscape of travel services and distribution channels.

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Stay informed about the latest developments affecting travel advisors, from technology advancements to client relations and best practices and gain insights into the growing importance of personalized service and how advisors are adapting to the changing demands of their clientele in a competitive market.

Business Travel

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Egypt Bookings on Upswing

After years of dormancy, tourism to Egypt is coming back strong. Tour operators are expanding their products and departure dates, while travel advisors are seeing renewed interest among clients to visit what is for many a bucket-list destination.

Maria Lenhart | 6 years ago

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 | 6 years ago

Business Travel

Agents and Tour Operators See a Surge of Interest in Egypt

With little unrest in recent years, tourism demand for Egypt is making a big comeback. Tour operators are beefing up offerings and agents are seeing renewed interest among clients.

Maria Lenhart | 6 years ago

Business Travel

Travel Advisor Innovation Report: Bleisure Trend a Mixed Blessing for Agents

As more business travelers view their trips as working vacations, travel advisors must draw on both corporate and leisure travel-planning skills. It's no simple challenge, but it's necessary given the strength of the bleisure travel trend.

Maria Lenhart | 6 years ago

Business Travel

Travel Advisors Warn U.S. Clients to Get Ready for Real ID Deadline

It may seem early to be worrying about the October 2020 deadline for so-called Real IDs for U.S. domestic travel, including U.S. territories, but planning ahead could reduce headaches at the airport or motor vehicle agencies.

Paul Biasco | 6 years ago

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 | 6 years ago

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 | 6 years ago

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 | 6 years ago

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 | 6 years ago

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 | 6 years ago