The best time to cruise to Alaska largely depends on your preferences and what you hope to experience during your trip. Alaska’s cruise season generally runs from late spring to…
Best CRMs For Independent Travel Agents
As an independent travel agent, your goal is to book more clients. However, it’s hard to do that if you aren’t getting enough leads – or you aren’t communicating effectively…
5 Tips for Polishing Your Travel Newsletter
As an independent travel agent with Outside Agent Link, it’s very important to maintain those close relationships with your clientele, along with your reputation as the leading authority in your…
5 Signs That You Would Be A Great Travel Agent
Ever wondered if you have what it takes to become a travel agent? Even if you haven’t considered it before, maybe you should start now. From a love of research…
4 Tips for Travel Agents Searching for Their Niche
If you search for “travel agent” online, you’ll come up with almost 60 million results. How can you, as one independent travel agent, stand out in this mass of information?…
A Travel Agent’s Guide to Booking Group Trips
To some travel agents, working with a large group of people to plan a single trip may sound challenging, but there are tons of benefits to booking group travel, from…
6 Questions Travel Agents Should Ask Their Clients
Any travel agent knows that no two travelers are exactly alike. Every client that comes to them has their own personality and set of preferences that carry over into their…
How to Build Genuine Relationships With Your Clients
As members of the hospitality industry, travel agents bread and butter comes from the relationships they have with their clients. However, between attracting new clients and retaining old ones, it’s…
Top Summer Travel Destinations Outside North America
Summertime means vacations galore. While some people prefer to spend their summer holiday somewhere that doesn’t require a passport, there’s something to be said for taking a trip across the…
How to be A Successful Travel Agent in the Age of Faceless Travel Websites
Nowadays, it seems that around every virtual corner is a new website offering travelers cheap and fast access to all the services they used to rely on from travel agents.…