Amy Cornette, CTC, shares some tips for travel professionals to use when demonstrating their value and expertise to clients. She provides clients with the best value by creating unique vacations customized just for them.
As a travel professional your job is to match the best products and services to their needs and provide your professional guidance along the way to create the dream vacation.
When you understand your value and monetize your agency, you have the foundation for a successful travel business. Here are five reasons consumers should use a travel professional:
1. Product Knowledge
Your relationships with preferred suppliers allow for better deals, amenities and direct assistance.
2. Destination Knowledge
You will make recommendations matched to your clients’ needs based on your personal experience from FAM trips, training, and personal travels.
3. Safety
As a travel professional, you receive current updates on health and safety travel advisories and can suggest travel insurance to protect your vacation.
4. Save time and money
You will save them countless hours of research and will work to get the best value for their money.
5. Clout
You can promote any industry certifications you may have earned. If you have earned your CTA, CTC or CTIE certification from The Travel Institute, you can set up and display your Digital Credential in your marketing efforts to raise awareness of your professional credential.
