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Thursday
Selling a Vision of a Trip To Your Client
Imagine creating an individual guidebook for your client that combines what you have planned with rich destination content. You can with iZento. iZento can help you plan a customer’s trip making it a collaborative planner that doubles as a marketing tool. Here’s how it works:
iZento can be used digitally and as a hard copy. Digitally holds many advantages since your clients can share the digital version of their personal guidebook with friends or relatives through Facebook or email. This, can in turn, create more business since these friends or family members might actually want to book that same trip after viewing the digital content. A hard copy can be given to the client right before their departure.
iZento includes the itinerary created for the client along with descriptions, photos, and maps.
iZento features content for about 350 major destinations and more than 150,000 activities. If iZento doesn’t have a destination then you can simply add it.
iZento can import an entire cruise itinerary allowing you to use it to sell shore excursions through Shore Trips and other providers.
iZento has partnered with GOGO Worldwide Vacations on a private-label version called GoBook which will soon be released. GOBook automatically inputs the client’s flight and hotel. Once a client makes a deposit on a booking, iZento will pull in available tours that clients could purchase to a destination. GOGO is providing the service free to agents subscribing to iZento. Otherwise, it is $15 per month, per agent. Printing the book is an additional cost whether or not you are a subscriber.
For more information, visit http://www.izento.com/.
Learn how to become a Home-Based Travel Agent. Visit http://www.homebasedtravelagents.org/
iZento can be used digitally and as a hard copy. Digitally holds many advantages since your clients can share the digital version of their personal guidebook with friends or relatives through Facebook or email. This, can in turn, create more business since these friends or family members might actually want to book that same trip after viewing the digital content. A hard copy can be given to the client right before their departure.
iZento includes the itinerary created for the client along with descriptions, photos, and maps.
iZento features content for about 350 major destinations and more than 150,000 activities. If iZento doesn’t have a destination then you can simply add it.
iZento can import an entire cruise itinerary allowing you to use it to sell shore excursions through Shore Trips and other providers.
iZento has partnered with GOGO Worldwide Vacations on a private-label version called GoBook which will soon be released. GOBook automatically inputs the client’s flight and hotel. Once a client makes a deposit on a booking, iZento will pull in available tours that clients could purchase to a destination. GOGO is providing the service free to agents subscribing to iZento. Otherwise, it is $15 per month, per agent. Printing the book is an additional cost whether or not you are a subscriber.
For more information, visit http://www.izento.com/.
Learn how to become a Home-Based Travel Agent. Visit http://www.homebasedtravelagents.org/
Tuesday
Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays to all our agents.
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Selling Travel Using Innovative Internet Programs
When building your business, you need to be a storyteller. This involves telling stories about you and your expertise as a travel professional and the other involves telling stories about your clients’ vacations.
Performance Media Group’s Travel Tribe is social media built exclusively for travel agents. It is a free, fast growing online community where these stories can be told.
How Travel Tribe works:
When you invite customers to your site, you automatically show up on their profile as their personal travel expert.
When these customers, in turn, invite any friends or relatives, you also become the personal travel expert for them as well. This group is “Your Tribe.”
All of your contacts are in one place along with lead discussions, posting of stories and photos, answers to questions and featuring the destinations and suppliers you sell.
If you have different interests or specialties, you can have several tribes.
You can feature Travel Tribes exclusive multimedia content which include destination guides, articles and videos.
Indexed content and relevant search engines will bring new viewers.
Early next year, Travel Tribe will integrate with Facebook and Twitter. All of your Travel Tribe content will now show up there allowing you to reach a broader audience.
You can further increase your visibility by joining destination and supplier tribes.
To summarize, Travel Tribe allows you to manage your social media marketing. Not only does it allow you to strengthen your relationship with existing clients, but also enables you to attract new clients as well as building relationships with preferred suppliers. Travel Tribe is a source of great destination content and it’s FREE! For more information, visit http://www.traveltribe.com/.
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Performance Media Group’s Travel Tribe is social media built exclusively for travel agents. It is a free, fast growing online community where these stories can be told.
How Travel Tribe works:
When you invite customers to your site, you automatically show up on their profile as their personal travel expert.
When these customers, in turn, invite any friends or relatives, you also become the personal travel expert for them as well. This group is “Your Tribe.”
All of your contacts are in one place along with lead discussions, posting of stories and photos, answers to questions and featuring the destinations and suppliers you sell.
If you have different interests or specialties, you can have several tribes.
You can feature Travel Tribes exclusive multimedia content which include destination guides, articles and videos.
Indexed content and relevant search engines will bring new viewers.
Early next year, Travel Tribe will integrate with Facebook and Twitter. All of your Travel Tribe content will now show up there allowing you to reach a broader audience.
You can further increase your visibility by joining destination and supplier tribes.
To summarize, Travel Tribe allows you to manage your social media marketing. Not only does it allow you to strengthen your relationship with existing clients, but also enables you to attract new clients as well as building relationships with preferred suppliers. Travel Tribe is a source of great destination content and it’s FREE! For more information, visit http://www.traveltribe.com/.
Free Travel School. Learn how to become a travel agent and open your own online travel agency.
http://www.HomeBasedTravelAgents.org
Travel Renaissance
Optimism and innovation will drive industry revitalization through 2020. The recession dealt the travel industry a harsh blow, but a renaissance based on innovative marketing and strategy has begun. Amadeus' latest report, The Travel Gold Rush 2020, looks forward 10 years to reveal trends and practices that will propel the industry into renewed vibrancy. The trends within the travel industry section of the white paper reveals expresses confidence in a full recovery.
Gross domestic product (GDP) reflects the health of an economy and “the relationship between GDP growth and travel demand has historically been a robust one,” the report says. But—good news for the industry—travel demand typically rises faster than GDP growth.
The report, the result of Amadeus’ partnership with global economic forecaster Oxford Economics, reveals high expectations that consumers will resume their pre-recession level of travel spending.
And while demand for leisure travel will re-establish its footing, customers won’t continue to choose lower-cost leisure travel. Their growing confidence in the economic recovery will be reflected in more upscale and lucrative choices.
The report bases its optimism on Oxford data showing a 5.6% growth in global tourism arrivals in the period of January-June 2010.
Now is a great time to learn how to become a travel agent and open your own online website.
http://www.homebasedtravelagents.com/
Gross domestic product (GDP) reflects the health of an economy and “the relationship between GDP growth and travel demand has historically been a robust one,” the report says. But—good news for the industry—travel demand typically rises faster than GDP growth.
The report, the result of Amadeus’ partnership with global economic forecaster Oxford Economics, reveals high expectations that consumers will resume their pre-recession level of travel spending.
And while demand for leisure travel will re-establish its footing, customers won’t continue to choose lower-cost leisure travel. Their growing confidence in the economic recovery will be reflected in more upscale and lucrative choices.
The report bases its optimism on Oxford data showing a 5.6% growth in global tourism arrivals in the period of January-June 2010.
Now is a great time to learn how to become a travel agent and open your own online website.
http://www.homebasedtravelagents.com/
Friday
Virtual Travel Journals
GOGO Launches GOBook Virtual Travel Journals
GOGO Worldwide Vacations unveiled its GOBook, a branded marketing tool that converts GOGO booking into a trip journal that can be customized, branded, shared via social networking or printed as a keepsake booklet. It is good for viral marketing, client retention, referrals and brand image and increasing sales and commission. Agents can retrieve bookings from www.gogowwv.com, customize and personalize them, brand them with their business name, phone number and logo, make recommendations or suggest insurance and sightseeing options.
GOGO partnered with iZento, the trip planning and itinerary building service, to offer agents an easy way to dramatically enhance their online marketing and client deliverables through the creation of agency-branded, customized GOBook Trip Journals.
GOGO will leverage iZento’s patent-pending itinerary-building technology to automatically create and update each GOBook based on the trip elements booked by the travel agent. Travel pros can share the GOBook journals directly with their clients -- no interaction required -- or optionally customize each travel itinerary by adding their logo and branding, a client message, and GOGO tour and dining recommendations.
The result is a personalized virtual trip journal that includes traveler details, a trip calendar; air, car, hotel and transfer reservations, detailed destination guides and city maps. Agents can share via email, post on Facebook, and download and print journals directly from the GOGO site
Learn how to become atravel agent at http://homebasedtravelagents.org/
GOGO Worldwide Vacations unveiled its GOBook, a branded marketing tool that converts GOGO booking into a trip journal that can be customized, branded, shared via social networking or printed as a keepsake booklet. It is good for viral marketing, client retention, referrals and brand image and increasing sales and commission. Agents can retrieve bookings from www.gogowwv.com, customize and personalize them, brand them with their business name, phone number and logo, make recommendations or suggest insurance and sightseeing options.
GOGO partnered with iZento, the trip planning and itinerary building service, to offer agents an easy way to dramatically enhance their online marketing and client deliverables through the creation of agency-branded, customized GOBook Trip Journals.
GOGO will leverage iZento’s patent-pending itinerary-building technology to automatically create and update each GOBook based on the trip elements booked by the travel agent. Travel pros can share the GOBook journals directly with their clients -- no interaction required -- or optionally customize each travel itinerary by adding their logo and branding, a client message, and GOGO tour and dining recommendations.
The result is a personalized virtual trip journal that includes traveler details, a trip calendar; air, car, hotel and transfer reservations, detailed destination guides and city maps. Agents can share via email, post on Facebook, and download and print journals directly from the GOGO site
Learn how to become atravel agent at http://homebasedtravelagents.org/
Thursday
Selling Las Vegas
Learn how to make money selling Las Vegas
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