Could is Nationwide Journey Advisor Appreciation Month, kicking off with Nationwide Journey Advisor Day on Wednesday, Could 3.
To have a good time the crucial work of journey advisors throughout the nation, a number of main suppliers are rolling out particular packages and incentives to reward hard-working advisors whereas additionally educating the touring public on the various advantages of working with a trusted journey skilled in 2023 and past.
Listed below are a number of the notable methods firms are celebrating Nationwide Journey Advisor Day and Journey Advisor Appreciation Month this Could.
Sandals Resorts
Sandals Resorts Worldwide and the American Society of Journey Advisors (ASTA) are partnering to have a good time the integral position of journey advisors via unique programming and incentives.
The pair will host a Fb Stay on Wednesday, Could 3 from 2-4 p.m. ET that includes a one-on-one session with ASTA President and CEO Zane Kerby and Gary Sadler, the Government Vice President of Gross sales and Trade Relations at Distinctive Holidays Inc., an affiliate of the worldwide representatives for Sandals Resorts and Seashores Resorts. Throughout the occasion, fortunate journey advisors can have the chance to win a visit to Sandals Dunn’s River, which is able to open on Could 24, 2023.
Even when they do not win, journey advisors can reap the benefits of particular incentives this month as new bookings of six nights or longer at Sandals Resorts made instantly with Distinctive Holidays, Inc. from Could 4-31, for journey via December 24, 2023, are eligible for extra reserving incentive as much as $200.
Sandals Royal Bahamian’s Barefoot Cay (Picture through Sandals)
“Journey advisors have been key characters all through each chapter of our greater than 40-year historical past and have performed a number one position within the business’s resurgence,” Sadler mentioned in an announcement. “We’re proud to have them as companions in our joint success and to champion the crucial work of ASTA in recognizing the unbelievable journey advisor neighborhood at the moment, and every single day.”
ALG Holidays
ALG Holidays has devoted all the month of Could to celebrating its journey advisor companions.
With The Be Variety, Unwind giveaway, a dozen fortunate journey advisors will win tickets on United Airways for 2 with stays in Hawaii, Aruba, Cancun, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Las Vegas, Mallorca (Spain), and different locations.
The Propel Your Development giveaway is one other method ALG is rewarding advisors. Ten journey advisors will win a equipment designed to assist their company stand out on social media, together with high-value objects like iPads and extra.
Journey advisors have three probabilities to win with each reserving from Could 3-31, 2023. Every reserving earns one raffle entry, with a bonus entry for bookings together with Journey Safety Plus and one other for bookings made by ALGVPro-certified specialists.
“ALG Holidays is devoted to the journey advisor neighborhood. Now we have gratitude for our advisors every single day of the yr, however Could is once we take our appreciation to a different degree,” defined Jacki Marks, ALGV’s World Head of Commerce Manufacturers.
Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Regent Seven Seas Cruises is celebrating Journey Advisor Appreciation Month with reserving incentives, bonus commissions and sail-free alternatives.
For instance, journey advisors can earn a $100 Reward Card plus a further 2 p.c bonus fee for each reserving made in Could throughout Regent’s Spring Into Summer season marketing campaign. The bonus can be on high of the usual fee acquired for a Regent reserving. Spring Into Summer season provides vacationers financial savings of as much as 40 p.c on a variety of worldwide voyages in 2023 and 2024.
What’s extra, with Regent’s Promote Three, Sail Free reserving incentive, advisors who make three new bookings earlier than Could 31 on as many as 74 eligible voyages departing June 2023 to April 2024, can sail totally free with a visitor on any a kind of identical voyages. To say their free suite, advisors can click on right here and full the net kind with the reserving numbers of three qualifying sailings, in addition to their very own most well-liked crusing dates, by the Could 31 deadline.
“Journey Advisors all the time have been, and all the time would be the key motive for Regent’s success, and we need to acknowledge and reward their unbelievable help,” Andrea DeMarco, President of Regent Seven Seas Cruises, mentioned in an announcement. “Not solely are we celebrating Journey Advisor Appreciation Month, but in addition our best-ever efficiency in Q1, all due to our unbelievable Journey Companions. We’re delighted to offer them with a lot of alternative ways to earn extra with Regent and alternatives for them to create new recollections on board by crusing with us.”
Superstar Cruises
Superstar Cruises is giving freely tens of 1000’s of {dollars} in prizes to have a good time advisors this Could. Superstar’s 2X Europe $60K Giveaway Entries and Double Reward Factors imply advisors can earn double entries for Superstar’s $60,000 money giveaway for every 2023 Superstar Europe reserving made via Could 13, 2023, and earn double rewards factors for bookings made between Could 2-13, 2023, on any Superstar crusing via April 30, 2025.
A rendering of Superstar Cruises’ Edge Collection fleet. (Picture Credit score: Superstar Cruises)
Avanti Locations
Avanti Locations is celebrating journey advisors all month lengthy by giving freely a $25 present card for every new reserving (totaling $5,000 or extra) made with Avanti between Could 1 and Could 31, 2023. There is no restrict on the variety of present playing cards that advisors can earn however deposits have to be acquired by the tip of Could for journey by December 31, 2023.
Avanti has additionally partnered with Go to Portugal to introduce an academic marketing campaign that features a 50-page e-brochure, “Paradise in Portugal,” to assist journey advisors create customizable holidays to the nation. The marketing campaign features a $25 present card for every Portugal journey advisors promote with a land worth of $2,500 for bookings via Could 31, 2023, for journey by December 31, 2023.
Karisma Accommodations & Resorts
Karisma Accommodations & Resorts is celebrating Journey Advisor Appreciation Month with the introduction of a journey agent advisory board, weekly scavenger hunts with prizes, incentives for brand spanking new bookings, and seminars going down all through the month of Could.
The journey agent advisory board, referred to as the Compass Committee, will present useful perception on key initiatives to assist form enterprise selections. Composed of brokers, company house owners, and key executives, the committee can be hand-selected and can obtain first-hand appears at new product improvement and innovation throughout the portfolio and take part in quarterly on-line conferences and annual on-site occasions. Functions opened on Wednesday, Could 3 and a most of 15 individuals can be chosen to serve on this yr’s board.
Full-time accredited Connoisseur Inclusive Trip Consultants (GIVC) and Connoisseur Inclusive (GI) Rewards brokers and company house owners are invited to use at taadvisoryboard.com. To be thought-about, advisors have to be enrolled and lively in Karisma’s Connoisseur Inclusive journey agent packages – GIVC or GI Rewards. Entries will shut on Could 30, 2023, and the committee choices can be introduced on June 15, 2023.
Margaritaville Seaside Resort Ambergris Caye, Belize. (picture through Karisma Accommodations & Resorts) (Karisma Accommodations & Resorts Media License)
In the meantime, new bookings made for Nickelodeon Accommodations & Resorts and the Margaritaville model between Could 1 and July 31 for journey between Could 15 and December 15, 2023, will obtain Double Connoisseur Inclusive factors when registered by the advisor of their account through Karisma’s journey agent portal.
Digital scavenger hunts can be held every week for an opportunity to win a $250 present card. The questionnaire can be distributed weekly through electronic mail, closing every Friday at midnight. Every scavenger hunt will give attention to totally different manufacturers throughout the Karisma portfolio. Those that full all 4 scavenger hunts will even be entered to win a $1,000 present card grand prize.
Karisma may also maintain reside in-person seminars all month lengthy specializing in updates to the model’s portfolio, together with Summer season of SpongeBob at Nickelodeon Accommodations & Resorts and Summer season of Music at Margaritaville Island Reserve Resorts. Every week, Karisma will shock attending advisors in a choose metropolis with a three-night journey for 2 to a Margaritaville Island Reserve Cap Cana, Margaritaville Island Reserve Riviera Cancun, or Margaritaville Island Reserve Riviera Maya.
“At Karisma Accommodations & Resorts, we now have an agent-first dedication,” mentioned Marilyn Cairo, Vice President of World Gross sales at Premier Worldwide Advertising, in an announcement. “We pleasure ourselves on collaboration and constructing a neighborhood the place everyone seems to be empowered to succeed. We all the time need to be higher companions, and this board will assist make sure that. It is one of many some ways we plan to offer again this month and past.”
Silversea Cruises
Silversea Cruises is rewarding journey advisors this spring with incentives, the introduction of kicker commissions and suite upgrades.
When journey advisors make a brand new confirmed reserving on any Silversea expedition cruise throughout the months of Could and June, they’re going to routinely be entered right into a weekly prize draw for an opportunity to win a present card. One winner can be chosen for every week in Could and June.
Silversea Cruises’ luxurious expedition ship, Silver Endeavour. (picture courtesy of Silversea Cruises)
The cruise line additionally introduced it is providing an additional 1 p.c kicker fee on all expedition cruises, an additional 1 p.c kicker fee on all new-to-brand friends and an additional 1 p.c kicker fee on all new-to-repeat friends (friends who e-book for a second time with Silversea via the identical company), permitting journey advisors the chance to extend their fee by as much as two additional fee factors.
What’s extra, journey advisors can present their shoppers with added worth throughout Silversea’s limited-time Suite Upgrades promotion for brand spanking new bookings made by Could 31, 2023. Out there with door-to-door all-Inclusive fares on choose voyages departing earlier than Could 31, 2024, the supply supplies as much as a two-category suite improve on choose voyages, for chosen suite classes and $1,000 shipboard credit score per suite that can be utilized for spa therapies, specialty eating places, premium wines and spirits, non-obligatory shore excursions and way more.
“Journey Accomplice Appreciation Month is a particular time for us to indicate our appreciation and reward our journey advisor companions for his or her loyalty and efforts,” mentioned Massimo Brancaleoni, Silversea’s Senior Vice President of World Gross sales. “Although it kicks off in Could, our incentives proceed via June, marking our continued appreciation for our journey companions and the essential position they’ve performed in our success for almost three many years. This appreciation marketing campaign focuses on our expedition cruises, which offer shoppers with uniquely immersive journey experiences that may result in repeat enterprise and, as a result of larger per diem fares of our expedition voyages, allow journey advisors to earn extra in fee.”
Seabourn
Seabourn is celebrating the journey advisor neighborhood throughout World Journey Advisor Day and Journey Advisor Appreciation Month with a particular fee bonus. The ultra-luxury cruise line is saying “thanks” by providing journey advisors a 5 p.c bonus fee on choose voyages booked now via Could 31, 2023. The particular fee is even combinable with the brand new Bon Voyage Occasion and The Finale Sail providing advisors’ shoppers big financial savings on airfare and choose 2023 and 2024 itineraries.
Out there now via July 10, 2023, the Bon Voyage Occasion supply contains an air credit score of as much as $2,800 AUD per individual, a complimentary two-category Veranda Suite improve and a decreased 10 p.c deposit on choose Seabourn ultra-luxury voyages and expedition sailings in 2023 via 2024 whereas The Finale Sail supply unlocks financial savings as much as 30 p.c when friends e-book a totally non-refundable cruise fare for choose suite classes on choose 2023 and 2024 sailings.
AmaMagna sails the Danube (Picture Credit score: AmaWaterways)
AmaWaterways
Award-winning river cruise line AmaWaterways is displaying like to its journey advisor companions this Could with cruise giveaways, rewards and extra.
AmaWaterways introduced seven new “Seminar on the River” cruises hosted by Enterprise Growth Managers in addition to an early opening of 20 FAM cruises on dates extending till November. Journey advisors attending “Webinar Wednesdays” all through the month can be entered right into a weekly draw to win a European or Mekong river cruise for 2 and, on June 7, a balcony stateroom can be given away to 1 fortunate journey advisor who attended all 5 classes.
With the Promote Three Sail Free incentive, advisors have an opportunity to earn a free cruise after making three new FIT reservations on any 2023 crusing.
Advisors can register for Could’s Webinar Wednesdays and apply for AmaWaterways’ upcoming Seminars on the River through the Journey Advisor Portal.
“Because the founding of AmaWaterways over 20 years in the past, journey advisors have been on the coronary heart of our firm, contributing over 95 p.c of our gross sales. We categorical appreciation to our journey companions all yr lengthy with particular incentives, advertising and marketing help and coaching alternatives however the month of Could is all the time a particular time for our groups to go above and past and say thanks in different methods,” Kristin Karst, co-founder and govt vp of AmaWaterways, mentioned in an announcement. “We encourage all vacationers to start their planning course of by connecting with their most well-liked journey advisor because the impeccable providers that they supply make trip planning straightforward, permitting friends to calm down whereas realizing every thing is taken care of.”
TourRadar
Main journey reserving platform TourRadar is launching a brand new incentive program to have a good time Journey Advisor Appreciation Month in Could, giving freely organized adventures to Peru, Italy, and any vacation spot supplied by Europamundo to a few fortunate winners.
To enter to win, journey advisors solely have to register on TourRadar.com/brokers, be a present agent who logs in throughout the month of Could, be registered and attend one in all TourRadar’s hosted webinars in Could, refer two different advisors to register on the TourRadar Agent Portal or observe TourRadar on the TourRadar Agent Fb web page and TourRadar Instagram @TourRadar. To take part in this system, advisors have to be registered with TourRadar and make bookings between Could 1 and Could 31, 2023.
(Courtesy of TourRadar)
“We respect the arduous work and dedication of our journey advisors, and we need to present our gratitude by giving them an opportunity to expertise the world on our organized adventures,” mentioned Travis Pittman, CEO and co-founder of TourRadar. “We hope this appreciation month will encourage our brokers to proceed doing what they love and encourage them to share their ardour for journey with others.”
Moreover, the primary 50 new advisors who place their first reserving will obtain a $100 money bonus.
Noble Home Accommodations & Resorts
Boasting a set of 25 luxurious and upscale inns, resorts and experiences throughout North America, Noble Home Accommodations & Resorts is providing VIP Choose Bundle completely for journey advisors and their friends.
Highlights embrace a $100 resort credit score and breakfast for 2 at Estancia La Jolla Lodge & Spa, L’Auberge Del Mar, Lodge Terra Jackson Gap, Teton Mountain Lodge, Gateway Canyons Resort & Spa, Jekyll Ocean Membership, LaPlaya Seaside & Golf Resort, Little Palm Island Resort & Spa, Ocean Key Resort & Spa and The Marquesa Lodge and a $25 resort credit score on a one-night keep and a $50 resort credit score for a two-night keep at The Edgewater, Argonaut Lodge, Lodge Zoe, River Terrace Inn, Portofino Lodge & Marina, San Diego Mission Bay Resort & Spa, Kona Kai Resort & Spa, Corazón Cabo, Jekyll Island Membership, Pelican Grand Seaside Resort, Inn on Fifth and Solé Miami.
Normal VIP Choose Bundle facilities embrace a no-walk coverage, an improve on the time of check-in (topic to availability) and a welcome amenity (upon request) and will be booked within the GDS (SEL-P) on Noble Home property web sites with the code “SELECT,” or by emailing or calling the reservations groups. The supply is legitimate on the very best out there price solely and isn’t combinable with different packages.
Resilient Woman is anticipated to enter service Could 14. Rendering courtesy of Virgin Voyages. (Virgin Voyages)
Virgin Voyages
Virgin Voyages is displaying love for its journey advisor companions or “First Mates” with particular perks, giveaways and nationwide actions. Advisors can enter to win an epic journey (together with airfare) on Virgin’s Aussie MerMaiden crusing out of Melbourne on Resilient Woman later this yr. Advisors who need to enter the Australian contest can go to FirstMates.com for more information, or to enroll in the First Mates program.
In the meantime, First Mates may enter for an opportunity to snag particular Virgin Voyages swag by following the model’s interactive SeaCiety web page on Fb.
Moreover, all through the month of Could, Virgin can be releasing a collection of movies that includes particular friends and regional gross sales managers can be internet hosting unique pleased hours and lunch occasions in numerous geographic markets.
Atlantis Paradise Island
Atlantis Paradise Island is celebrating Journey Advisor Appreciation Month by providing a bonus fee for last-minute bookings between Could 1-31, 2023. Qualifying advisors can earn $50 per reserving at The Coral at Atlantis; $75 per reserving at The Royal at Atlantis; $100 per reserving at The Cove at Atlantis and $100 per reserving at The Reef at Atlantis. Advisors can capitalize by logging their reservations and sending them to LeisureSales@AtlantisParadise.com
What’s extra, the advisor with probably the most booked income can be rewarded with a four-night keep at Atlantis Paradise Island.
Rental Escapes
Rental Escapes is celebrating advisors by providing its highest-ever fee, as much as a $5,000 bonus fee for all the month of Could. The particular supply is legitimate on bookings made between Could 1-31, 2023, for stays between Could 8, 2023 and December 31, 2024.
