Get your agent ID card to access Gulliver’s Travels preferred vendors and take advantage of at-cost travel deals. Participate in travel training opportunities, including:

• audio and web training
• regional and national conventions
• vendor familiarization trips
• training cruises/cruise ship familiarization weekends
• supplier product and sales seminars
• CLIA and vendor resort certification

Enjoy savings, upgrades, and privileges that are often available from vendors interested in providing incentives to travel agents for promoting their property or product.

Consider that the average family spends $3,000 per year in vacation travel. Then ask yourself these questions:

• How many families do you know?
• How many business travelers do you know?
• How many non-profit organizations (churches, schools, and civic groups) do you know?
• Who do they know?

Use the three-foot rule – give everyone within three feet your business card. Tell people you can provide them with the best professional travel arrangements at competitive prices. Suggest they visit your website the next time they want to book travel or plan a vacation.