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Maximizing Your Vacation: The Many Hats of a Travel Agent

Traveler's Q

This is where the role of a travel agent comes in handy. A professional travel agent is specialized in creating customized itineraries for clients, meeting their specific travel needs. A travel agent is a professional who can provide efficient and customized travel planning for a nominal price.

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Starting IPW 2022 with a Green Bang: Tourism Cares Pledges $10,000 to IDEAS for Us

Smart Meetings

Travel has hosted the International Pow Wow (IPW) to put America’s tourist destinations up for offer to travel agents from around the world. Tourism Cares’ goal to fund sustainable travel practices aligns with this trend of going green. Since the first event in New York City in 1969, U.S.

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Destinations Soar with Public Relations

The Abbi Agency

With more than a decade of specializing in travel PR, The Abbi Agency knows what it takes to land our destination clients in the right publications. As publicists, we must be prepared to think on our feet and pivot quickly to keep up with the trends and fast-paced travel industry. Do your research. One year from now?

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Shifting shape of corporate travel: Sabre  

Travel Daily Media

The post Shifting shape of corporate travel: Sabre appeared first on TD (Travel Daily Media) Travel Daily. 55% say company Covid-19-related travel restrictions are easing, and 38% say total travel spend is increasing. The trend is most prevalent in North Asia where there’s been a 42% switch from FSCs to LCCs.

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Airline Consolidators Overview: Their Role, Advantages, and Key Players

AltexSoft Travel

As a final chord, we outline the future of consolidators — based on the current trends. Most of the large consolidators appeared in the 1970-1980s when airlines had more seats than they could ever sell via travel retailers. Consolidators pass on net fares to travel agencies, charging a premium on top of each seat.

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Revenue Integrity in Airlines: How to Solve Revenue Leakage Problems

AltexSoft Travel

Often created by travel agents and customers (both accidentally and not), these holes account for about 3 percent of the airline’s revenue. Not always intentionally, but travel agents as well as passengers themselves can cause a bunch of revenue integrity problems for airlines. Sources of airline revenue leakage.

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Top 9 Travel Trade Writers to Pitch

DCI

With a number of reputable travel trade publications out there, we sifted through our top picks to highlight the writers and journalists who have the travel trade’s ear. Get to know them, craft those pitches, and prepare to hear a lot more chatter from tour operators and travel agents in the near future. Eric Bowman.