Education

The 3-day travel show conference program is designed specifically for you. It offers comprehensive education and training to enrich your career and increase your sales.  By attending THETRADESHOW, you will gain the essential knowledge and expertise to make your travel business more profitable.  In just three education packed days, the #1 travel trade show in North America will provide a wide selection of educational sessions to help you enhance your areas of expertise and capture more sales opportunities.


Dollar Rent a Car and Thrifty Car Rental is a sponsor of THETRADESHOW education and complimentary travel educator registrations. 

Topics for training include: 

Technology

Advanced Excel Tips & Tricks
Presented by Chelle Yarbrough
In this advanced Excel class, we'll cover only two advanced topics: importing external data and manipulating data with formulas. You should have a very firm grasp of basic topics and computing in general. In this session, you'll learn how to:

  • Change text to initial capitals, all capitals and no capitals
  • Delete extra spaces in a cell
  • Count characters in a cell
  • Combine information from two cells into one cell
  • Compare cell contents
  • Separate part of the information from one cell into another cell

These advanced tricks are exceedingly helpful when importing/exporting client data and prepping data for reports.

Blogging for Dollars - Advanced Tips and Tricks for Sales and Traffic
Presented by Chelle Yarbrough
Calling all bloggers! If you've already realized that blogging is the new wave of the Web, then this session will teach you how to surf the wave all the way to shore. You'll learn to tweak what you're already doing to ensure every possible advantage. This session primarily utilizes WordPress, which is a free, open-source program; however, if you use another software program, you will still benefit from the concepts presented:

  • LinkBait and title considerations
  • Top 20 WordPress plugins for your blog
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for blogs
  • Opening up the conversation with comments and pingbacks
  • RSS feeds and subscriptions
  • Getting your blog on Google's home page
  • Blogging by e-mail and mobile devices
  • Guest bloggers and paid content

Take home the skills to define LinkBait and its usefulness in writing a title; know the resources for downloading open-source blogging software and plugins; identify the (SEO) capabilities for blogs; describe how to effectively use comments, pingbacks, RSS feeds and subscriptions; know the options for mobile and e-mail blogging and blogging; how to feature blog posts on Google's home page; and how to find blog content.

Excel I - A Beginner's Introduction to Excel
Presented by Chelle Yarbrough
You've been asked to enter data in Excel, but you've never worked with Excel. Where do you begin? Or perhaps you have worked in Excel a time or two, but you still wonder how to do some of the basics — how to enter different kinds of data, edit data or add/delete extra columns and rows.

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Create a new workbook
  • Enter and edit text and numbers
  • Insert and delete columns and rows
  • Create simple formulas

Facebook Your Way to More Sales: Using Social Networking Sites as Part of a Successful Marketing Program (Beginner)
Presented by Kate Koziol
MySpace, Facebook and the countless other social networking sites out there offer unique opportunities for networking, publicity and increasing your sales – if you know how to use them.  Join seasoned travel industry PR expert Kate Koziol as she leads you through the steps to create and easily begin using your own MySpace or Facebook company page.  In addition to guiding you through the process of publishing your own page, Kate will also share tips and tricks for using social networking sites to your advantage, especially when reaching out to Generation Y visitors. Come to the Tech Pavilion to discover how this popular technology can fit into a successful marketing and public relations program that will enhance your presence in the industry and among consumers.  

Facebook Your Way to More Sales:  Going the Distance with Your Social Networking Sites (Advanced)
Presented by Kate Koziol
Are you using your MySpace and Facebook pages to their max for networking, publicity and increasing your sales?  Join seasoned travel industry PR expert Kate Koziol as she shares countless new and creative ideas for boosting the wow factor of your MySpace and Facebook pages.  Kate will share tips and tricks for making better use of these sites to gain new customers and spread your name all across the online social networking landscape. Using real world examples from successful travel companies, Kate will describe how others have struck gold using these sites and how you can rev up your virtual presence. Come to the Tech Pavilion to discover how you can further use this popular technology as part of a flourishing marketing and public relations program. 

Google – Beyond Search – Advanced
Presented by Carol Fullmer
Seminar Handouts
Google is the Internet’s number one search engine. But did you know that, for the most part, almost everything else you need from your computer can be done with Google?  You’ll be amazed at what is available and at no cost to you.  This seminar will review features such as:

  • Google Documents, an online alternative to Word
  • Google Spreadsheets, an online alternative to Excel
  • Google Presentations, an online alternative to PowerPoint
  • Gmail, an online alternative to Outlook
  • Google Calendar, an online alternative to the calendar feature in Outlook
  • Google Picasa for image management/editing
  • Google Video, Blogger, Page Maker, Maps….the list goes on and on

Google GMail Pro - Webmail at it's best!
Presented by Carol Fullmer
Check your other email addresses, not just Gmail, from any computer anywhere.
Send email using any “reply to” address you like and even change it instantly.
Forward incoming email to your cell phone as a text message or to another email address.
Set up “out of office” auto replies
Tired of spam? Gmail has one of the worlds best spam filter systems.
Search and Archive features make finding a particular email a snap
Contacts are included, can be imported from another source (Outlook, Outlook Express etc.)
It's Google, it's free and it's amazing!

Google Magic – Beginner
Presented by Carol Fullmer
Seminar Handouts
Do you believe in magic? Google Search magic is at your fingertips and can make all the difference in:

  • Productivity – find good information fast!
  • Customer satisfaction and retention - keep them coming back!
  • Keeping up with rapidly changing technology – leave it to Google!

The Internet doesn’t have to be intimidating or overwhelming, not when you let Google go to work for you.  This presentation will help you update you basic search skills and discover new and amazing Google Magic.  The best part?  It’s fun and costs you nothing, nada, all free!

I Blog to Differ - Blogging for Beginners
Presented by Chelle Yarbrough
Blogs are everywhere - and it seems that everyone but you has one! In this session for beginners and the blog-curious, we'll discuss basic concepts and best practices for getting started including:

  • What is a blog, and how can it help my agency
  • When and how should I integrate a blog into a Web site
  • Should I host my own or use a hosted solution
  • How do I decide on an design
  • How often should I post, and what kind of content do I use
  • How can I find content when I just can't think of something witty or important to say
  • What can I do to stay motivated and not let my blog languish
  • How do I submit to search engines
  • What’s the best way to set my goals and gage my success

We'll look at several successful blogs of travel agencies and suppliers as well as some not-so-successful ones, too. By attending, you’ll understand most of the technical terms associated with blogs; identify the differences between pages and posts; understand where you can obtain a free blog, hosted blog or blog software; find free templates for setting up your blog; know where to look for content; and how to submit a blog to major search engines. You’ll also receive a handout with all of the resources cited in the session and access to the presentation online.

Trip Tailor Vacations – Putting You in Control of your Destiny
Brought to you by Sabre Travel Network
Presented by Barbara Helzlsouer

TripTailor Vacations® is the ultimate packaging tool that gives you (agents) the online pricing you need, the revenue control you deserve and the variety of travel choices your clients require. 
 

Ken JonkerThe Ultimate CRM and Marketing Tools  – ClientBase and ClientBase Marketing Services are better together
Brought to you by Sabre Travel Network
Presented by Ken Jonker
The key to marketing well is having a powerful database. Using ClientBase, we will show you how to: create a new profile, manage a reservation, segment you database based on travel history and preferences, send unique promotions with ClientBase Marketing Services (formally TMA), and track your results. There will be plenty of time for Q&A.

Home-based Agents

If I’m Like You – You Will Like Me
Presented by Joanie Ogg, CTC, MCC
We all have different ways of communicating our experiences - some express themselves in pictures, others talk about how things sound to them, and others speak about how things feel. These language patterns are called Representational Systems. In this workshop you will discover how you can speak the language of your customers by understanding their communication patterns. Being able to build rapport by creating an emotional attachment to your customers is at the foundation of a long term relationship that will build your business and will have your customers shouting your praises to their friends and family. This interactive workshop will have you wondering how you ever got along without it. It really works!

Seven Things You Can Do To Turn Your Travel Business into a Middle Class Lifeboat
Presented by Paul and Sarah Edwards
Opportunity beckons!  But oh, how it can be disguised by skyrocketing airfares and gasoline prices, an anemic dollar, and economic changes that are squeezing many Americans.

In short, people are adapting, modifying, and restructuring their travel along with many other aspects of their lives. Still the appetite for travel, resulting from emerging economies and people’s ever-present thirst for stimulation that travel uniquely satisfies which offer opportunities for home-based travel agents.
The Edwards will discuss emerging niches and suggest how you can capitalize on them. They will provide a roadmap of other steps you can take to make your travel business a middle class lifeboat.

Tool Box for Making a Small Fortune as a
Home-Based Agent

Presented by Gary Fee and Anita Pagliasso
Agents will learn marketing and other essential steps to elevate their home-based business to the next level. This seminar will cover the following topics: understanding the tools that are needed for a professionals home-based agent; legal issues for home-based agents; industry ID codes; e-commerce and database tools; how to build business through networking; the home-based agency host; selling and managing groups and much more.

Ultimate Sales Seminar Part I & II
Presented by Scott Koepf, CTC, MCC
This selling workshop provides specific tools and will introduce a process and style that can be personalized to each individual. By using the sales system provided, the goal changes from completing a transaction to creating a lifetime client.

Using Technology to Develop and Maintain Relationships with Today’s Savvy Customers
Presented by Brad Anderson
During this seminar, travel professionals will learn how to skyrocket their home-based businesses through the use of today’s technology. With the right applications, technology can offer an unparalleled advantage to the 21st-century travel agent, helping to build relationships with current and prospective customers. This interactive workshop will give attendees a new perspective on today’s technology, and they will leave inspired to sell more travel!

Niche travel

Beyond Green: Ecotourism becomes Sustainable Tourism becomes…
Presented by Paul Bennett
Seminar Handouts
Benefit from the wisdom of the presenter, a journalist and travel entrepreneur, who will take you through the brief history of sustainable tourism and discuss some of today’s key issues including carbon emissions, travel footprint and giving back to the places we dearly love. Journey through the history of green travel, beginning with ecotourism of the ’70s and ‘80s, and ending with the broader idea of sustainable tourism today. Learn about green architecture and eco-resorts and the important concerns about economic justice. Also, discover a whole host of strategies employed by tour operators and resorts to reduce the negative impacts of tourism on environments, cultures, economic systems and social structures. You won’t want to miss this session, which offers concrete examples of organizations that the presenter has researched and written about as well as his own internationally recognized travel company. It will uncover ways that tourism can be modified and shaped for the betterment of destinations and travelers alike.

Cuba:  The Next (Very Big) New Destination
Brought to you by Fund for Reconciliation
Presented by Christopher Baker

As a result of the November election, changes in US-Cuba relations may quickly open the door to normal travel from the US. 40 percent of Americans say they want to vacation there.  ASTA has estimated the number of visitors could approach one million in the first year after US restrictions end and grow dramatically thereafter. 

This seminar is designed to answer questions for travel agents, tour operators and other sectors of the industry. How is Cuba preparing to add Americans to the two million Canadians, Europeans and other types of vacationers that it will receive this year? What special attractions does the country offer? What is the state of its tourism infrastructure and what can we expect from the role of familiar partners like Sol Melia? How is doing business there similar to and different from other destinations in the Caribbean? What are the US presidential candidates saying now, and what will they do after taking office? What can be expected from Congress? 

Slides and presentation will be provided by Christopher Baker, author of the indispensable “Moon Handbook on Cuba” and "Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro’s Cuba". www.cubatravelexpert.com

How to Reach the Flourishing Minority Market
Brought to you by Travel Professionals of Color
Presented by Charlotte Haymore
Take advantage of this exciting opportunity to learn how to reach this unique minority travel market and how your agency can profit by selling to what has now become a "niche" market.
Information on the multicultural traveler and marketing techniques that can be used to reach the minority traveler will be discussed in this workshop.  In addition, a sneak peek into heritage tourism will be presented.

Marketing Green: Promotional Narratives in a Greening World
Presented by Paul Bennett
This seminar, presented by a journalist and travel entrepreneur, will look at how travel narratives are being reshaped by the green movement and what it might mean for travel businesses. Learn about green measurement: who are the organizations that are measuring success in sustainability, what are the tools they are using and how do they help travelers make decisions? Explore some of the innovative approaches that you might take to sustainability in travel and how they can be woven into narratives. Also hear about today’s key issues that concern magazines and other media, the demographics of green travel and our current position in the green media cycle.

The New Era of Faith Tourism: How Agencies Can Capitalize on This Robust $18 Billion Market
Brought to you by World Religious Travel Association
Presented by Kevin Wright

Did you know that the faith tourism market is experiencing record growth in 2008? Destinations such as Israel and Jordan are welcoming more visitors in 2008 than ever before, while travel experiences such as faith-based cruising, attractions and missions are enjoying some of their best years ever. A robust marketplace valued at $18 billion and 300 million travelers, faith tourism today comprises a diverse range of travel experiences including pilgrimages, cruises, leisure vacations, conventions, missions, adventure trips, retreats, attractions and much more.  The most recent industry research shows that faith-based travel has gone “mass market” with one in four travelers interested in taking a faith vacation. Today, many major tour operators and cruise lines feature faith-friendly travel programs. Join one of the world’s top religious travel experts and authors, Kevin J. Wright, in this fast-paced and interactive workshop providing you with actionable product, sales and marketing strategies to build a thriving and profitable faith travel program. The timing couldn’t be any better as the World Religious Travel Association has declared 2009 as the year of faith tourism.

Selling Customized Luxury Group Travel
Brought to you by European Incoming Services
Presented by Bruce Tepper, CITE, CTC
Customized luxury group travel is a great money maker for creative agents willing to go the distance and create the WOW factor customers crave. In this workshop, we'll review techniques for creating the WOW factor that leads to once in a lifetime experiences, profiling and reaching your best prospects, choosing the right suppliers and pricing for maximum revenue. The focus is on helping you build a more successful and profitable customized group business.

Industry

GDS Contracts
Presented by Mark Pestronk
In this seminar, Mark Pestronk will cover how to obtain the best GDS contract for an agency of your size and mix, what kinds of incentives you can expect based on what is being offered today, and what are the GDS-contract traps for the unwary. Mark will also cover the role of GDS contracts in agency sales and agency closures.

 

Legal
Presented by Mark Prestronk
In this seminar, Mark Pestronk will cover “the Dark Side of the Force”; i.e., the terrible things that can happen to travel agency owners and executives, and how you can prevent or ameliorate them. Examples will include extraordinary debit memos due to employee or customer fraud, liability created by independent contractors, IRS re-classification of your independents as employees, client claims for negligence, and suits by former employees. Mark will also answer any other legal questions that you have.



A Taste of the CTE Program - The Fundamentals of Business Travel
Brought to you by National Business Travel Association
Presented by Robin Roane

The Fundamentals of Business Travel is a course offered by the National Business Travel Association that once successfully completed, leads to the designation of Corporate Travel Expert (CTE).  A complete description of the course and highlights of its contents will be the focus of this session.  There will be plenty of time for interactive discussion.  If holding a designation in the corporate travel sector is of interest to you, plan to attend and learn all about NBTA’s Corporate Travel Expert program.

The Travel Institute

Managing Change
Brought to you by The Travel Institute
Presented by Scott Ahlsmith, CTC
The ability to work with, and anticipate, change is crucial to success in the travel industry. This module provides attendees with skills to handle the challenges and opportunities that come from change.


Negotiating for Mutual Gain

Brought to you by The Travel Institute
Presented by Scott Ahlsmith, CTC
Inevitably every travel professional will need to work through a conflict with a co-worker, supplier or customer. Keen negotiating skills are necessary to achieve mutually agreeable solutions to all types of conflict. This course explores the steps of the negotiation process and a variety of successful negotiating techniques.

Cruise

Building Client Loyalty   10 Credits (ACC/MCC)
Presented by Tom Cogan, MCC, CTC 
This program will show you how to read your customers and sell from their perspective. Participants learn how to uncover hidden client needs, apply quality service, and reinforce client loyalty. You will learn the ten fundamentals to building and maintaining client loyalty in today’s world.

Cruising – The Ultimate Incentive
Brought to you by CLIA   15 Credits (ACC/MCC/ECC/ECCS)
Presented by Tom Cogan, MCC, CTC 
Incentive travel is one of the fastest growing segments in the industry. What makes it different from other types of group travel? Who are the buyers? What do they expect from their cruise experience? In this program you’ll learn the fundamentals of incentive travel and gain an understanding of the strategies and techniques you need to succeed.

Customer Relations Management: Made Easy
Brought to you by CLIA    15 Credits (ACC/MCC/ECC/ECCS)
Presented by Tom Cogan, MCC, CTC 
What's the hottest topic in travel these days? It's CRM, or Customer Relationship Management. In this seminar you'll learn dozens of strategies -- technological and otherwise -- to help you understand and profit from your customers, as well as reinforce the whole relationship you have with them.

Cruise Vacations – An Introduction
Brought to you by CLIA  15 Credits (ACC/MCC/ECC/ECCS)
Presented by Bernie Blomquist MCC, CTC
This seminar is a comprehensive overview of the tools required to successfully sell cruise products, identify motives, apply strategies introduced to increase cruise sales, match clients with the right cruise product, and apply “insider” secrets to selling the cruise experience.


Group Sales Made Easy

Brought to you by CLIA   15 Credits (ACC/MCC/ECC/ECCS)
Presented by Bernie Blomquist MCC, CTC
This program demonstrates how to develop group business as a profit center covering the following subjects: identifying groups and their characteristics, sources for lead development, marketing to groups, working with group leaders, analyzing group potential, pricing and promotional budgeting.

 

Product Seminars

Alaska: Maximizing Pre & Post Cruise Options in the Great Land
Brought to you by Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau 
Presented by Tania Hancock, DS, ACC. 
This fun, educational seminar helps to dispel myths and misconceptions about the “Great Land” and includes great activities, attractions, local tips and personal insights for booking Anchorage and Southcental Alaska.  Tania Hancock, Tourism Sales Manager with the Anchorage Convention & Visitors Bureau, will share her 30+ years of Alaska experience and help agents increase their knowledge base, confidence and success in selling America’s Last Frontier.

 

Alberta - Canada’s Rocky Mountain Playground
Brought to you by Travel Alberta International
Presented by Monique Morrison
From peaks to plains, Alberta is one of the world’s most stunning and diverse destinations.  Flanking Alberta on the western border are the renowned Rocky Mountains, to the southeast reside the Badlands and prairies and to the north a wilderness of beautiful forests, lakes and rivers. A nature-lover's paradise, Alberta is enriched by wide open spaces and an all-encompassing, magical landscape. A vacation in Alberta can be as active, relaxing or extravagant as your clients want to make it. We welcome your clients to experience Alberta and create their own memorable stories. Come discover where each of your client’s story can begin.

Auto Europe - The International Car Rental Service Leader
Brought to you by Auto Europe
Presented by Brad Partridge
Learn the many benefits when booking your clients with Auto Europe and Destination Europe. It starts with access to the industry's largest car rental fleet with over 4,000 locations worldwide, to a reservations and customer service department open 24-7-365, free toll free customer service worldwide with prices guaranteed in US dollars. Receive the latest information on our programs including; transfer & chauffeur drive services, Peugeot buyback leases for long term rentals, GPS, cell phones and much more.
With Destination Europe, one call does it all. Your client can have all of their travel handled from airfare to hotels to car rental and beyond. Partnering with over 30 airlines and more than 30,000 hotels worldwide Destination Europe will deliver all of your clients needs.

Auto Europe your partner in travel for over 50 years. We look forward to seeing you at our seminar!

Costa Rica: The World's Preeminent Sustainable Travel Destination 
Brought to you by Recommend Magazine
Presented by Christopher Baker

With greater awareness of global warming, travelers are increasingly factoring a concern for the environment into choosing a vacation destination—one that provides opportunities to explore pristine ecosystems and enjoy wildlife wonders while feeling confident that they are safe and secure.  Costa Rica provides enlightened outdoor adventurers a vacation experience unrivaled for its rich biodiversity, easy access to traveler-friendly national parks, and an eco-focused tourism infrastructure second to none.  This tiny country accounts for just 0.01% of the earth’s surface yet boasts more bird species than North America, more butterfly species than the entire African continent, and animals from anteaters and crocodiles to jaguars and monkeys guaranteed to leave visitors wide-eyed in awe. 
Join award-winning travel writer/photographer Christopher P. Baker, author of the Moon Costa Rica and National Geographic Traveler Costa Rica guidebooks, as he guides you through the different regions and ecosystems, and regales the different experiences that your clients can enjoy in this sensational ecotourism hot spot.  Plus, learn about the Costa Rica travel industry’s Certificate for Sustainable Tourism and Blue Flag Programs, and the Recommend Costa Rica Specialist Program launching in September and how agents can participate in a drawing for Fam trips, etc.

Explore Puerto Rico, Explore Beyond the Shore!
Brought to you by Puerto Rico Tourism
Presented by Narciso “Ciso” Moreno

Puerto Rico is more than the most historical, the most modern, the most cosmopolitan, the most latin flavored and the most accessible city in the Caribbean, San Juan! Learn how Puerto Rico commonwealth status with the USA, provides you & your clients the most conveniences of being home away from home. Explore how our branding of regions, places Puerto Rico at another level in fulfilling vacation experiences as you travel around a unique & different destination. Benefits of selling Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is your destination of choice in the Caribbean…www.gotopuertorico.com.

Hi Tech – High Touch Marketing
Brought to you by MailPound
Presented by Debbie Maier

Learn how to gain the edge over the competition by using client knowledge and MailPound’s plethora of e-tools to wow clients! This seminar will showcase many of the invaluable tools designed to build your client relationships including customized and targeted e-brochures created specifically for every client. 

Sell More Travel
Brought to you by Performance Media Group
Presented by Jonathan Cooper

If you are travel agent who wants to increase their product and destination knowledge in order to sell more travel, please join us for an interactive and educational seminar that will present you with the information you need for your business to grow and succeed.  Learn how to better market yourself and your business in order to boost sales and increase productivity. Gain useful sales tips and learn what resources are at your fingertips to keep your current on industry events and product information.  This is a seminar you don't want to miss!

Sell the Philippines - Beyond the Usual - An Introduction to Philippine Airlines
Brought to you by the Philippine Department of Tourism
Presented by Emma Ruth Yulo

Learn about the top attractions of the Philippines and how to sell them.  Philippine Airlines also introduces its airline specials for travel agents.

We Build Incredible: Oasis of the Seas
Brought to you by Royal Caribbean International
Presented by Nancy Baumann

At Royal Caribbean International our imagination and innovation has no boundaries. For us a ship isn't just a ship, but rather, a collection of amazing experiences that challenge all limitations. Our new Oasis of the Seas exemplifies how we continue to break the mold time and again - and how we undertake new endeavors. Quickly, the impossible becomes possible and the unimaginable becomes real; entertainment areas become neighborhoods and suites become lofts.
Join Nancy Baumann, Regional Training Specialist for Royal Caribbean International as she takes you through the architectural marvel that is Oasis of the Seas! At Royal Caribbean International, We build Incredible!!!

What's New & Exciting in Jamaica
Brought to you by Jamaica Tourist Board
Presented by Ruby Henry

Updated information will be provided on the Jamaica Product Offering.

 


Presentation Pavilions

Ruben RochiEl Salvador Impressive: The New Destination in Central America
Brought to you by Ministry of Tourism of El Salvador
Presented by Ruben Rochi

Learn about the many tourist attractions El Salvador has to offer. 

 


Grow Your Business Through Gray Line Worldwide Tours
Brought to you by Gray Line Worldwide Tours
Presented by Robert Shamo and David Krause

Allow Gray Line Worldwide to help you earn lucrative commissions on every product you book through the Gray Line Preferred Travel Agency Program!  It is our pleasure to introduce you to our global portfolio of Local Experts providing over 4000 tours & attractions in 150 destinations, on 6 continents.

Your clients are not traveling thousands of miles to sit in a plane or sleep in a hotel.  These customers are there to EXPERIENCE a destination.  Attend this seminar to learn how Gray Line can provide your clients with those unique experiences as you earn commissions increasing your companies’ bottom line.   

Seminar attendees should sign up with our Gray Line Preferred Travel Agency Program and become eligible to win fantastic prizes around the world.  (Booth # 1202-1209 Global Section)

Malia AsfourGisele AbrahaoThe Jordan Experience!
Brought to you by Jordan Tourism Board North America
Presented by Malia Asfour and Gisele Abrahao
What's your clients' idea of a magical vacation?  Whether it's experiencing genuine hospitality, exploring archeological and religious wonders or following in the footsteps of Lawrence of Arabia, look no further and find all this and more in legendary Jordan. Discover the beauty of this Kingdom's treasures and experience the splendor that has dazzled visitors for centuries at THETRADESHOW!  Visit us at Pavilion 3 on Sunday, September 7th at 4:00pm and Monday, September 8 at 1:00pm.

ModernAgents Plan More Fun!
Brought to you by Performance Media Group
Presented by Neil Strickland

Join us as we take you on a quick walk-thru of ModernAgent.com and the tools available to you on the site for FREE!  Learn more about the largest travel agent website in the world and how it can assist you in your day-to-day business needs. Tools that we’ll cover include: ModernAgent TV and ModernAgent’s Travel Pulse Daily that keep you up-to-date on the latest industry news, events, and trends; our Consumer Newsletter Tool that lets you send destination and product themed newsletters to your clients with just the click of a button.  ModernAgent also gives you easy access to special promotions and information from the destinations and suppliers you sell every day, plus much more!  Join us for a fun walk-thru of the FREE tools available to you on ModernAgent.com!  We’ll also share some exciting news with you about ModernAgent.com.  This is a presentation you don’t want to miss!


Travel Trade's Online Resources
Brought to you by Travel Trade
Presented by Seth Gittlitz
Agents can learn how to use Travel Trade's online resources to increase their skills and earn continuing education credits.

 
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