From One to Many: How You Can Pay It Forward

For 60 years, The Travel Institute has lived by its mission of advancing agent professionalism through high-quality education and helping travel professionals be successful.

And for more than a decade, our CTA®, CTC®, and CTIE® Scholarship Fund has awarded over one million dollars. This has assisted nearly 5,000 travel professionals—like yourself—further their education, grow their business and become part of the industry’s most recognized community of certified travel professionals. 
 
To continue this vital work, we need your help. If you are one of the thousands who benefited from a scholarship, we encourage you to pay it forward today. 
 
Our annual Certification Scholarship Fund opens June 24 to qualified applicants, and, with your help, we can support many more travel professionals.

Donate It doesn’t take much to make a big impact. Consider a donation into this Scholarship Fund to support The Travel Institute’s milestone anniversary and give $60 for 60 years of education or $20.24 to commemorate this anniversary year and to assist an aspiring travel professional. The Travel Institute is a charitable 501(c)(3) organization under the U.S. Internal Revenue Tax Code. Thus, your gifts to our scholarship fund are tax deductible in the United States.  

• The scholarship for the CTA program meant the world to me. As a travel advisor for 12 years, I had always wanted to enroll, but, as a small business owner, other expenses always took precedence. This opportunity presented itself at the perfect moment, I couldn’t be more thankful for the invaluable knowledge I’ve gained.—Krissy Brescia, Magic Awaits Travel
  
  
• After 35 years in the travel industry, I finally decided it was time I completed my CTA. I worked hard studying all the modules, and I took away a wealth of knowledge. I especially loved Business Writing! I passed and proudly display in my office my diploma from The Travel Institute. Thanks for the scholarship I received from The Travel Agent Next Door and Manulife Insurance!—Arlene Peddle Gibbons, CTA, The Travel Agent Next Door

Join Share your expertise and skills by joining The Travel Institute’s volunteer program. You can listen to Joannie Ogg, CTC, Travel Professional NEWS, who has given so much of her time in serving on committees and in sharing her knowledge and expertise. Also listen to industry veteran Stephanie Turner, CTC, Brentwood Travel, who has long supported education and The Travel Institute’s mission in innumerable ways.  

• I love to give back to The Travel Institute as a way of saying thank you for the amazing educational foundation that it has provided me in my career. Its TAP, CTA, and CTC programs have all helped me build my knowledge and propel my business forward. I’m now working on my CTIE.—Don Capparella, CTC, Quality Travel Solutions

Be an Ambassador As a certified alum, you represent the best of the best in our industry. Share your story with other professionals about how certification helped you and your career. Your message is not only inspiring but is a powerful example of how these credentials matter. You have a voice! 

• I wanted to earn my Travel Certification to be able to share with my clients that I had a professional certification that would give them confidence in working with me. In addition, it provided me with the knowledge and tools to become successful in my business. Every day, I apply the knowledge I learned.—Laura Schiely, CTIE, Must Love Travel

Every donation—no matter the amount—will go a long way toward helping others and strengthening our industry. No matter how you choose to pay it forward, you will help our community. When we come together to support each other, it motivates, inspires and has a long-lasting positive impact on our industry.