Familiarization Trips: The List that will Keep Your Travel Adventures Alive in 2025
Looking for a fam trip in 2025? This trips to far corners of the globe may be just what the year requires. Trips are travel advisor focused and promise to not only showcase the best of the best in each location but create lasting friendships and partnerships to support your work and career. KENYA […]
Luxury Travel Booms: Affluent Traveler Collection
In the realm of Luxury Travel Booms, where discerning travelers seek personalize experiences and unparallel service, The Affluent Traveler Collection (ATC) is rising to meet the growing demand. As the affluent travel market continues to expand, ATC, an invitation-only luxury marketing group, has welcoming new high-quality agencies and prestigious partners, ensuring they stay ahead of the curve in catering to upscale clientele. […]
Corporate Travel Challenges: Can They Be Solved?
Corporate Travel Challenges continues to be marred by a challenging landscape, especially as more agencies are taking up the baton and offering travel planning to small business owners and entrepreneurs. So, to that end, the latest SAP Concur Global Business Travel Survey released last week explores some of the most pressing parts of business travel […]
Travel Advisors are Made, Not Born: Assembly Required
Travel advisors do not grow on trees. The unrelenting wanderlust in our souls hasn’t dimmed despite the recent travel disruptions caused by the pandemic. And while many pre-pandemic hurdles have vanished, navigating the complexities of the new travel landscape can be daunting. This is where travel advisors step in, emerging as the unsung heroes of the post-pandemic travel […]
Bucket List Travel Ideas Gain Insight from Chase Travel Portal
Bucket list travel ideas are in focus as Chase Travel brings on a preview of its new luxury hotel program – now known as “The Edit by Chase Travel” – before it launches in early 2024. As a prelude to this concept, the bank company offers a glimpse into luxury lodging and travel trends, especially […]
Travel Advisors, Suppliers “Level Up” at this Year’s Ensemble Summit
Ensemble’s Horizon Summit: Travel Advisors’ Banner Year Travel advisors have had an unexpected banner year, and Ensemble, one of the world’s largest travel consortia, is not sitting back to enjoy the ride. The travel advisor network, which, until recently operated as a cooperative, completed its second annual Horizons conference under the umbrella of Navigatr, a multilayered […]
Airline Cancellations: Travel Advisors Seek Shield from Blame
Airline cancellations are more the norm than the exception these days and often travel advisors are thrust into the middle, between their clients and the DOT. To that end, the American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) this week is urging the U.S. Department of Transportation to reverse course and not require travel advisors to pay client refunds out of pocket for […]
Los Cabos Rising: Q/A with Rodrigo Esponda, Los Cabos Tourism Board
Mexico, including Los Cabos, is wide open for business. At Tianguis 2021 last month held in the UNESCO-protected colonial city of Merida, the annual (save 2020) tourism industry gathering offered a window into what to watch and where to go in Mexico as the world emerges from Covid. Tourism ministers and directors mixed with the […]
Next Trip: Pandemic Wakes World to Value of Using a Travel Advisor
As the world is reopening for travel, 79% of Americans prefer working with a human travel advisor over an online travel agency when it comes to planning an important trip, according to a recent survey from Internova Travel Group. Younger generations of travelers are also looking to travel advisors to help them plan their next trips, […]
Travel Trends to End a Year Like No Other
Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC), Expedia.com, Generali Global Assistance and Amadeus have all weighed in on what is defining travel now and what will be some guiding influences as we gently round the bend toward a new year. In the 2021 Travel Trends Report, analyzing extensive travel data from Expedia and ARC to uncover key search […]
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