Travel Agent Chatter | Starting And Growing Your Travel Agency

Welcome to Friday 15! Today Steph chats about if a CTA certification is valid in Canada, step-by-step guide for optimizing a ship inspection, and if it's important to choose a host with a GDS?Helpful Resources: (What are the travel agent certification options out there?) (Get to know the Canadian provinces travel agent licensing rules) (Download HAR's free cruise ship inspection checklist---6 pages!---and read the article on how to optimize your next ship inspection) (The sister article and sister download to our cruise ship inspection download) (We haven't tried this out ourselves, but here's a paid course an agent put together on how to maximize the marketing you can do from a fam trip)https://www.myfamtrip.com/(A paid app to keep track of all your fam trips/ship inspections/guided tours. By travel advisors, for travel advisors.) (More on what's involved with becoming a corporate travel advisor) (We break down what exactly the GDS---global distribution system---is and why it's a tool specific to corporate a