Staying Organized While Selling and Planning Group Travel
Monday, July 22, 2024 at 6:00 PM UTC • 30 minutes
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What we’ll cover
Join us for a session on best practices for staying organized while selling and planning group travel. Enhance your organizational skills and streamline the work needed for your group travel clients with this insightful session.
What You'll Learn:
What You'll Learn:
- The Group Travel Life Cycle: Learn about the 6 stages of the Group Travel Life Cycle to make group travel manageable with an easy, repeatable process.
- Best Practices for Organization: Discover Annette’s top strategies for staying organized in the dynamic world of group trave
- Streamlining Processes: Gain insights into techniques for simplifying the work needed for your group travel clients, making your workflow more efficient and productive.
Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your organizational skills and make group travel a more profitable and manageable part of your business.
Your host

Annette E
5.0(2 reviews)
$50/hour
Travefy
Excel
Itinerary Building
Admin
Destination Research
Cruises
Group Travel
+5 skills
* Strengths - Communications; customer service; detail oriented; executive, career and business coaching; MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint; general technology
* Passions - Travel...visited all 7 continents, 34 countries and 42 states; poker; cooking; exercise
* Corporate Career - 30 years starting as a software programmer and ending as a Sr VP of Engineering for voice communication products
* Post Corporate Career - As CEO (Chief Excitement Officer!), established and managed an Event Planning business specializing in: weddings (local & destination), bar/bat mitzvahs, milestone events and silent auctions. As a differentiator to give one stop shopping for Event clients, became a Travel Agent for Expedia CruiseShipCenters (ECSC) booking land & cruise travel for event & ECSC clients, families and corporate groups.
* Lucia
- Ongoing project creating 30+ spreadsheets capturing hotel partner programs, GDS info & associated hotels for a large travel agency with over 800 travel advisors and is a Virtuoso member
- Ongoing support assisting a travel advisor to print & ship client travel documents, client travel research, Travefy itinerary updates, email management, creating Standard Operating Procedures and strategic planning to optimize operational efficiencies
- Ongoing Group Travel consulting support for two Agency owners who are both Virtuoso members that includes client proposals and models for determining Agency fees
- Completed a 4 month project providing a Quality Assurance review of a worldwide Supplier Database for a travel itinerary app
* College Degree - BA in Mathematics/Computer Science
* Passions - Travel...visited all 7 continents, 34 countries and 42 states; poker; cooking; exercise
* Corporate Career - 30 years starting as a software programmer and ending as a Sr VP of Engineering for voice communication products
* Post Corporate Career - As CEO (Chief Excitement Officer!), established and managed an Event Planning business specializing in: weddings (local & destination), bar/bat mitzvahs, milestone events and silent auctions. As a differentiator to give one stop shopping for Event clients, became a Travel Agent for Expedia CruiseShipCenters (ECSC) booking land & cruise travel for event & ECSC clients, families and corporate groups.
* Lucia
- Ongoing project creating 30+ spreadsheets capturing hotel partner programs, GDS info & associated hotels for a large travel agency with over 800 travel advisors and is a Virtuoso member
- Ongoing support assisting a travel advisor to print & ship client travel documents, client travel research, Travefy itinerary updates, email management, creating Standard Operating Procedures and strategic planning to optimize operational efficiencies
- Ongoing Group Travel consulting support for two Agency owners who are both Virtuoso members that includes client proposals and models for determining Agency fees
- Completed a 4 month project providing a Quality Assurance review of a worldwide Supplier Database for a travel itinerary app
* College Degree - BA in Mathematics/Computer Science