As a travel advisor, your ultimate goal is to provide clients with unforgettable journeys that exceed their expectations. To guarantee that every client has the best experience possible, it’s important to have a well-structured and repeatable pre-travel process, so that when they embark on their...
Travel advising is personal. As a professional travel agent, your goal is to learn as much as you can about your clients and their true aspirations for a trip. Do they want an escape? To relive a moment from their past? What’s their motivation for...
If you’re just breaking into the travel industry and want to get serious about selling travel as an established business, it helps to have a trusted source of information to go to. We’re here to help you figure out the right path for you and...
If you’re a member of our host agency, you have access to a custom website that helps to market your business. This itself is a powerful tool for independent advisors that comes at no additional cost to your membership. A branded website is a major...
This month we’re talking about the right amount of client interactions, or customer appreciation touches, that make clients repeatedly come back to your business and turn them into customers for life. Thoughtful, personalized touches turn one-time customers into long-term clients. As you’ll see in this article,...
Part of the pride in being a top travel advisor is confidently knowing who you’re selling to. If a client comes to you asking for a lavish, once-in-a-lifetime experience for their birthday, you need to do a little investigative work to deliver on their wishes...
As much as a Travel Advisor relies on industry knowledge, connections, and above all, a fierce passion for travel, you need reliable tools to grow a successful travel agency. This month, we’re focusing on the amazing resources and tools Levarté Travel offers to its members....
You think Black Friday is busy for retailers; you should think about Travel Advisors and Agents the same way for a more extended period, through Wave Season. Wave Season is the first three months of each year when most travel is scheduled for summer vacations...
What does it mean when a host agency says “group travel” or more specifically “contracted group travel”? It means, you (the travel advisor) are going to work with a person or group to book a trip with the same itinerary or very similar itineraries. ...
According to a recent Nielsen report, 92% of consumers believe suggestions from friends and family more than advertising. And Semrush Research found that word-of-mouth is even more effective than paid ads, resulting in five times more sales. These stats are important to consider when thinking of ways...