Virtual Fams for Home Bsed Travel Agents

Here's an idea whose time has surely come
The virtual fam! Fam trips (short for Familiarization Trips) are sponsored by suppliers and destinations to allow home based travel agents learn more about those products and destinations. That way, they will be better able to sell those products and destinations to their clients.

It's the classic win-win situation. The trouble is, fam trips are by their very nature small scale events. Only a certain number of travel agents can participate. The virtual fam solves that problem. By conducting their tours online, via the Internet, suppliers can reach a much wider audience of homed based travel agents. Another plus is that the supplier can have a high level of confidence that the agents who participate in virtual fams have a genuine interest in selling the properties and destinations involved.

Apparently it's working. Funjet reports that 10,000 home based travel agents tuned in for a virtual fam of the Maya Riviera in December. If you'd like to see what a virtual fam looks like, you're in luck. Funjet is doing it again this week, this time for Cozumel. For more information and the tour schedule, visit the Fun jet site.http://www.funjetlive.com Persons interested in becoming a FT or PT home based travel agents and becoming an approved CLIA or IATAN agent can go to http://www.homebasedtravelagents.org/