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Complete Consortium List. Join 40,766 agents and sign up for our monthly newsletter to have articles written just for home-based travel agents delivered straight to your inbox! The most comprehensive travel consortia list on the web. Search and find a consortia by sales figures, location requirements, insurance and more!
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Step 1: Register Here. Step 2: Submit Your Payment. In the comments on the ConsortiaX payment link please add who the payment is for. Once your payment goes through, you will receive an invoice confirmation in approximately a week. Deadline to register is April 15 2024. Cancellation by July 1 2024. Based on demand for this event, we request you ...
A Must-Read Guide to Choosing a Travel Agent Network
A Must-Read Guide to Choosing a Travel Agent Network. May 27, 2021. Travel agents should do their research before joining a travel advisor network. Credit: 2021 deagreez/stock.adobe.com. Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Nov. 7, 2016. It was updated on May 27, 2021. It's impossible to deny the power of a strong community.
What Are Travel Consortia & Co-Ops?
The very short answer that will get you through a cocktail party banter is this: A travel consortium is a collective of host agencies, travel agencies, and/or travel advisors that join forces and combine resources to increase their industry footprint including buying potential, benefits, & commission levels. (Here's a list of travel consortia ...
What Are Consortia and Why Do They Matter For Travellers?
By definition, a consortium (plural: consortia) is "an agreement, combination, or group formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member.". Within the travel industry, this refers to an association or group that provides a community of travel businesses with assets that they may not have the resources or connections ...
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Enjoy a richer, more memorable travel experience when you choose an Ensemble member agency. With decades of experience and thousands of travel advisors throughout the U.S. and Canada, Ensemble is a travel consortium that can always help connect you with the trip of your dreams.
What is a Travel Consortium?
By Courtney Eisen. February 22, 2024. A travel consortium or travel cooperative is a collective of travel agencies, host agencies, and travel advisors that combine their volume to enhance their presence in the industry. They work together to increase their buying potential, benefits, and commission levels.
Ensemble members explain why they're sticking with the consortium
After banner years in both 2019 and 2021, 2022 is InteleTravel's "new, new best year ever," president James Ferrara said. As of October, the agency had done around $450 million in sales, and ...
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Established in 1968, Ensemble Travel® Group is a proactive, member-owned and member-run organization of approximately 850 top-tier, independent travel agencies in the U.S. and Canada, and with recent expansion into Australia and New Zealand. ... What Are Travel Consortia & Travel Co-ops? May 20, 2024. See All Blog Posts.
Headquarter Happenings: Ensemble Looks to Redefine What a Consortium Is
Life has been particularly fast for Ensemble over the past year -the consortium was acquired by travel giant, the Navigatr Group in May 2022 - and the Horizons conference is a great ...
Agency affiliation: Consortia: Travel Weekly
Agency affiliation: Consortia. Given its acquisition spree over the past few years, Travel Leaders Network's dominance in the consortia category should come as no surprise. Still, the growth in ...
So you want to switch affiliations?
Jamie Biesiada. Thinking about changing your agency's affiliation with a consortium or a host agency? There's a lot to think about. Amid evidence that at least some agencies are making moves ...
(71) Friday15: Difference Between Travel Consortia, Travel ...
Welcome to Friday 15! Today Steph chats about the difference between travel consortia's, travel agent discounts, and why someone should use a travel agent.He...
Agent to Agent: Should You Join a Travel Consortia?
A travel consortia is a term that's used to refer to a group of people who come together with a goal of combining resources. This group can include travel agencies, host agencies, travel agents and any other company or individual that's involved within the world of travel. The idea behind joining a travel consortia is that the more travel ...
How Do You Pick the Right Consortia for You?
February 1, 2019. To help you on the road to choosing the right consortia, we reached out to a few travel advisors to find out how they went about choosing the one that was right for them. Mary Lou Boal, who has been an agent for 38 years and is owner of Total Travel Services, says, "Without my membership with Travel Leaders I would have had ...
Get Started Today with a Host Agency and Consortia
Get Started Now with a Host Agency and Consortia. At TPI, we're obsessed with YOUR success. It's your brand, your business and identity. We spend our days and nights designing ways to support you throughout the life of your agency. We believe the best travel consortia empowers your success and growth. That's why we do everything to help ...
5 Ways Tourism Boards and Consortia Can Work Together Effectively
Well-informed travel advisors can better promote and sell the destination to potential travelers. 5. Bid to Host Consortia Events. Many tourism boards work with consortia to help them facilitate familiarization trips, which are essential. As much as those are important and productive, consortia are always looking for a new destination for their ...
Host Agency vs. Consortia? What You Might Not Know!
In a consortium you are judged on your own performance as an agency - your store location. In a host agency there's strength in numbers, you are judged on the sales of all agents. This becomes particularly important now that a lot of suppliers are returning to tiered commissions based on sales. There are certainly advantages to being part of a ...
A Guide to Host Agency and Consortia Education [+Comparison Chart]
A travel consortium is a collective of host agencies, travel agencies, and/or travel advisors that join forces to combine resources in order to increase their industry footprint. This offers the agencies under their umbrella more buying potential, benefits, and commission levels. To make things more confusing, since hosts are members of ...
What is a Consortia?
A consortia rate is a preferred rate negotiated between a hotel property and a travel management company "TMC". Viewership of these rates in the GDS by a travel agent or other GDS user is restricted and the rate may be booked only after entry of either the Agents or Client authorization code. Originally started for small independent ...
Matt Schumacher: Why Six Years in the Army Helps ...
The Chicago native is a six-year Army veteran. Not-so-subtle military references abound in the host agency he launched last year. Based in Waseca, MN, the company is called Travel Troops LLC ...
Consortia landscape gets a shake-up as advisors realign their
Its brick-and-mortar consortium, Travelsavers, is also seeing an uptick in members, albeit a smaller one, Travelsavers chief sales officer Kathryn Mazza-Burney said.
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That is why today, we're launching the AI Alliance - a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government coming together to support open innovation and open science in AI. The AI Alliance is action oriented and decidedly international, designed to create opportunities everywhere through a diverse range of institutions that can shape the evolution of ...
The ins, outs, ups and downs of consortia
My wife, Sherrie, had opened the first cruise-only agency in Tennessee in January 1988. Our company had been named Carnival Cruise Line's Agency of the Year in 1990. We had received advertising ...
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Complete Consortium List. Join 40,766 agents and sign up for our monthly newsletter to have articles written just for home-based travel agents delivered straight to your inbox! The most comprehensive travel consortia list on the web. Search and find a consortia by sales figures, location requirements, insurance and more!
Step 1: Register Here. Step 2: Submit Your Payment. In the comments on the ConsortiaX payment link please add who the payment is for. Once your payment goes through, you will receive an invoice confirmation in approximately a week. Deadline to register is April 15 2024. Cancellation by July 1 2024. Based on demand for this event, we request you ...
A Must-Read Guide to Choosing a Travel Agent Network. May 27, 2021. Travel agents should do their research before joining a travel advisor network. Credit: 2021 deagreez/stock.adobe.com. Editor's Note: This article was originally published on Nov. 7, 2016. It was updated on May 27, 2021. It's impossible to deny the power of a strong community.
The very short answer that will get you through a cocktail party banter is this: A travel consortium is a collective of host agencies, travel agencies, and/or travel advisors that join forces and combine resources to increase their industry footprint including buying potential, benefits, & commission levels. (Here's a list of travel consortia ...
By definition, a consortium (plural: consortia) is "an agreement, combination, or group formed to undertake an enterprise beyond the resources of any one member.". Within the travel industry, this refers to an association or group that provides a community of travel businesses with assets that they may not have the resources or connections ...
Enjoy a richer, more memorable travel experience when you choose an Ensemble member agency. With decades of experience and thousands of travel advisors throughout the U.S. and Canada, Ensemble is a travel consortium that can always help connect you with the trip of your dreams.
By Courtney Eisen. February 22, 2024. A travel consortium or travel cooperative is a collective of travel agencies, host agencies, and travel advisors that combine their volume to enhance their presence in the industry. They work together to increase their buying potential, benefits, and commission levels.
After banner years in both 2019 and 2021, 2022 is InteleTravel's "new, new best year ever," president James Ferrara said. As of October, the agency had done around $450 million in sales, and ...
Established in 1968, Ensemble Travel® Group is a proactive, member-owned and member-run organization of approximately 850 top-tier, independent travel agencies in the U.S. and Canada, and with recent expansion into Australia and New Zealand. ... What Are Travel Consortia & Travel Co-ops? May 20, 2024. See All Blog Posts.
Life has been particularly fast for Ensemble over the past year -the consortium was acquired by travel giant, the Navigatr Group in May 2022 - and the Horizons conference is a great ...
Agency affiliation: Consortia. Given its acquisition spree over the past few years, Travel Leaders Network's dominance in the consortia category should come as no surprise. Still, the growth in ...
Jamie Biesiada. Thinking about changing your agency's affiliation with a consortium or a host agency? There's a lot to think about. Amid evidence that at least some agencies are making moves ...
Welcome to Friday 15! Today Steph chats about the difference between travel consortia's, travel agent discounts, and why someone should use a travel agent.He...
A travel consortia is a term that's used to refer to a group of people who come together with a goal of combining resources. This group can include travel agencies, host agencies, travel agents and any other company or individual that's involved within the world of travel. The idea behind joining a travel consortia is that the more travel ...
February 1, 2019. To help you on the road to choosing the right consortia, we reached out to a few travel advisors to find out how they went about choosing the one that was right for them. Mary Lou Boal, who has been an agent for 38 years and is owner of Total Travel Services, says, "Without my membership with Travel Leaders I would have had ...
Get Started Now with a Host Agency and Consortia. At TPI, we're obsessed with YOUR success. It's your brand, your business and identity. We spend our days and nights designing ways to support you throughout the life of your agency. We believe the best travel consortia empowers your success and growth. That's why we do everything to help ...
Well-informed travel advisors can better promote and sell the destination to potential travelers. 5. Bid to Host Consortia Events. Many tourism boards work with consortia to help them facilitate familiarization trips, which are essential. As much as those are important and productive, consortia are always looking for a new destination for their ...
In a consortium you are judged on your own performance as an agency - your store location. In a host agency there's strength in numbers, you are judged on the sales of all agents. This becomes particularly important now that a lot of suppliers are returning to tiered commissions based on sales. There are certainly advantages to being part of a ...
A travel consortium is a collective of host agencies, travel agencies, and/or travel advisors that join forces to combine resources in order to increase their industry footprint. This offers the agencies under their umbrella more buying potential, benefits, and commission levels. To make things more confusing, since hosts are members of ...
A consortia rate is a preferred rate negotiated between a hotel property and a travel management company "TMC". Viewership of these rates in the GDS by a travel agent or other GDS user is restricted and the rate may be booked only after entry of either the Agents or Client authorization code. Originally started for small independent ...
The Chicago native is a six-year Army veteran. Not-so-subtle military references abound in the host agency he launched last year. Based in Waseca, MN, the company is called Travel Troops LLC ...
Its brick-and-mortar consortium, Travelsavers, is also seeing an uptick in members, albeit a smaller one, Travelsavers chief sales officer Kathryn Mazza-Burney said.
That is why today, we're launching the AI Alliance - a group of leading organizations across industry, startup, academia, research and government coming together to support open innovation and open science in AI. The AI Alliance is action oriented and decidedly international, designed to create opportunities everywhere through a diverse range of institutions that can shape the evolution of ...
My wife, Sherrie, had opened the first cruise-only agency in Tennessee in January 1988. Our company had been named Carnival Cruise Line's Agency of the Year in 1990. We had received advertising ...