Since you’re a loyal Travel Quest blog follower or Travel Quest Facebook fan, you’ve persuaded us to give you some early details. Next week (specifically May 2nd), we’ll be launching a chance for Travel Quest agents and our Facebook fans to win a FAM trip to Italy! Italy Trip? Yes please! Photo Credit:TravellingTamas Big thanks [...]
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In honor of Earth Day 2011, we want to give some people some hard facts to help them find the greenest way to travel. Greenest Transportation Bonnie Lee, owner of Travel Quest, was lucky enough to be the travel agent representative on a national press phone call with the Union of Concern Scientists (UCS) for [...]
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Photo Credit:Mayank Gupta According to a 2008 US Travel Survey, Americans avoided or opted out of around 41 million potential trips from 2007 to 2008 because prices were too high. This translates into an absence of roughly $26 billion from the US Economy. Fiscally, 2009 and 2010 were not much of an improvement recording a [...]
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We are excited to announce Travel Quest’s exclusive promo code for the upcoming Travel Weekly CruiseWorld 2011! The event is November 2-5th in Fort Lauderdale and will be full of great information for travel agents including ship inspections, education, networking opportunities, and, of course the tradeshow where Travel Quest will have our booth. Travel Weekly [...]
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Not too long ago, there were just a few trade magazines where travel agents would get the dirt on what was going on in the travel industry. As an added bonus, they came in the mail right to you. Fast forward to today and there are hundreds of places an agent can go to [...]
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Chad joined TravelQuest at the beginning of 2011 and we finally thought it high time to actually put together a formal post interviewing him. Steph sat down with Chad and asked a few questions she thought would help agents get to know the newest member of the TravelQuest support staff better. You’ve been learning the [...]
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There was a time when travel agents could only work from storefront locations but there has been a huge movement in the travel industry towards agents that work remotely. Many of those who enter the travel industry these days do so by joining a host agency or other travel business that allows them to work [...]
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Since I’ve never successfully pulled off an April Fool’s Day prank in the office or anywhere else, I decided to stop trying. Instead, I’ll play to my strengths and write up a blog compiling the top April Fool’s Day Pranks in the travel industry. Either the airlines have really gone to extremes to save money [...]
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***Call to Action on Airline Ancillary Fee Transparency*** Short Story: Congress is considering legislation that would force you, as travel agents, to disclose “ancillary service fees,” like baggage, preferred boarding, and other extra services, to all your customers but it will not order the airlines to share the information with you! Ouch– you say you [...]
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Photo Credit:Rachal Berg You are probably asking yourself, why find a specific niche? In today’s technology-based world, travel agents are not only moving to the freedom of their own home, but also moving to a more narrowed focus within the industry. Home Based Travel Agents have found a greater success when they have a smaller [...]
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