Are you feeling completely overwhelmed or don’t know where to start as a travel agent? As a travel agent, there are certain type of skills, training and certification necessary to provide travel services for clients–whether you work at an established travel agency, as an independent contractor, or as a home-based travel agent. Our Travel Agent 101 help you navigate through all the information by showing you where to start and how to run your business effectively. Learn the basics of being a travel agent. This course includes:
- Introduction to the travel profession
- Marketing and promotion (including how to build up your social media followers and engagement)
- Step by step instructions on how to create a quote
- Managing your business
- Group basics
- How to choose a niche
- and much more…
You are able to take this course at your own pace. You will also gain access to our exclusive facebook group and live coaching calls.
Your Instructor
Samantha Hammond is a professional luxury travel agent and the CEO/ Founder of 'Jus Adventures' travel agency. Samantha has helped hundreds of travel agents grow and expand their travel businesses, as well as her own.
She started as a 'Destination Weddings' and group specialist doing 40+ weddings and groups per year. In 2017, Samantha launched 'Jus Adventures', a travel host agency, where she currently trains and mentors agents with weekly training classes and monthly webinars.
As the New York City Chapter Director for CCRA, Samantha work with travel suppliers to provide continuous education and support for all 110 travel agent members of the chapter. Besides having a flourishing travel business and training other agents on how to become successful travel agents, Samantha is also a member of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Advisory Board, where she currently chairs the Trade Committee.
Samantha has been invited as guest speaker to many industry conferences including: The Travel Industry Exchange, The Romance Travel Forum, The NY Travel Fest, Sotic 2018 and the Travel Agent Forum. When she is not training other travel agents or guest speaking, Hammond continuously travels the world partnering with countless resorts and tourism boards to get first hand experiences of the destinations and properties that she recommends to her clients.
In addition, for the past 9 years, Samantha has traveled with hundreds of women on her customized wellness group trips throughout the world.
Currently, Hammond is an avid yogi who resides in New York with husband Phillip and their 2 dogs and 3 cats.