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Title: how to become atravel agent


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How To become a Travel Agent?
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Introduction
  • Maybe someone has a great circle of relationships
    and people are always coming to them and they
    say, "Why shouldnt I get paid for doing all this
    research? I like doing it, but I could be making
    money." A lot of people get into their 50s and
    say, "You know maybe Ill just start this as a
    part-time thing." Some are very successful at it.
    They can balance more than one life
    simultaneously. If you have a family reunion
    and you have an affinity with travel, you will
    start talking to hotels, you will talk to
    airlines, resorts, maybe transportation systems.

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The school root
  • There are some travel schools out there. I dont
    think thats a good place to get training
    necessarily. Thats how a lot of people have
    started, but then they were able to go into a
    brick-and-mortar and file brochures, write
    tickets. There are few places to do that these
    days because so many brick-and-mortars are no
    longer available. "When I left the airline, I
    thought I knew travel. I knew nothing about
    travel," Smith said. "I knew how to get people on
    and off airplanes. Its a totally different
    world."
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Knowing what you sell
  • Its learning about a place and being effective
    in communicating about the place. I have a
    wholesale business, which means a customer and/or
    another travel agent will call me and say, "What
    do you know about Costa Rica?" I have a guy I
    work with in Costa Rica. I send him a profile and
    budget. Heres the time frames, what the clients
    are thinking of doing. He will come back with an
    itinerary. Then I go back to the client and say,
    "Here is what we can do."

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Getting right
  • Find the honest, reputable organizations that
    will support you. Because if you dont put those
    pieces together and it falls apart you better be
    prepared to make it a positive. Until youve had
    to do that its overwhelming. I had a guy this
    last week where the hotel dates got messed up.
    That shouldnt be his problem. Even though it
    cost me money to fix it, I still retained the guy
    as a client.

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The value of credentials
  • Travel professionals can earn a slew of
    credentials to enhance their reputation, such as
    certification from the Cruise Lines International
    Association, which is important if you want to
    specialize in cruise packages.

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Finding business
  • That's the question every business is trying to
    answer. There's no silver bullet, and everybody
    has their own style. "I do mailers, I do emails,
    I do trade shows, I do consumer shows," Smith
    says. "It takes a lot of energy to garner people
    around. It's about relationships and
    referrals."

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