Recently, The Travel Institute was awarded top honors with a Magellan Gold Award for our TRIPKITSM introductory training program. On behalf of the entire team at The Travel Institute, sincere thanks to the judging panel—some of the best and brightest leaders in the travel industry—for recognizing the role TRIPKIT plays in critical, foundational learning for individuals who want to become a travel agent. We also extend our deep appreciation to the many individuals, agency owners and managers, and educational institutions who have made TRIPKIT their training tool of choice. Our mission is their success.
As the industry’s non-profit education leader and longtime, gold standard for industry education, The Travel Institute ensures a quality, high value foundational education for agents. TRIPKIT today is shattering previous enrollment figures with our team’s unyielding, altruistic focus on continuous updates and improvements. As we continue to recruit, encourage and support new agents with dedicated funding and resources for TRIPKIT, its momentum and industry-wide value are clear. On track to educate more than 5,000 industry newcomers in 2023, and with more than 1000 TAP® graduates demonstrating their new newfound expertise in the last 12 months alone, TRIPKIT is indeed filling the knowledge gap to deliver capable, confident, AND job-ready new agents throughout the industry. This will, of course, benefit countless travelers, agencies, suppliers—and the industry most broadly—for years to come.
Thank you again, Travel Weekly’s Magellan Awards 2023, for further validating our efforts. Cheers to TRIPKIT and to all of its students, supporters and partners—we share this award with all of you, we celebrate our mutual success, and we commit to the continued pursuit of making new agents true travel advisors!
