5 Stats That Paint A Bright Future for Travel Agents
By Nick Ostdick on Mar 28, 2017 2:00:48 PM
132,00. That’s how many travel agents were in operation in the United States in 1990, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). By 2014, that number had dwindled by half to about 71,000 and the projections for the next ten years indicate a continued decline by about 12 p …
Why Travel Agencies Should Embrace Mobile Apps
By Nick Ostdick on Jan 19, 2017 3:14:48 PM
Travel agencies and mobile apps. These two concepts might seem to represent two very different time periods in the travel industry. The old and the new. The traditional and the state-of-the-art. Yet, today’s travel agencies would be well-advised to not only understand the value mobile …
The Link Between Menus and Vouchers: The Importance of Offer Templates
By Nick Ostdick on Dec 1, 2016 11:50:00 AM
Imagine a restaurant without a menu where the chef and kitchen staff simply presented diners with a list of available ingredients with the intent of making customers whatever dishes they desired. This means the kitchen staff could, at any given moment, be making a wide variety of dish …
The Importance of Content Mapping for Travel Agencies
By Nick Ostdick on Nov 29, 2016 11:56:05 AM
It’s something we’ve all experienced before: You input the wrong address on your GPS and you suddenly find yourself completely lost in an unfamiliar section of town. It’s easy to get frustrated and blame the GPS for this error, however, the GPS didn’t know you entered the wrong addres …
5 Processes Travel Agencies Can Automate with a Travel ERP
By Nick Ostdick on Nov 22, 2016 10:55:32 AM
20 minutes may not sound like a lot of time. It’s a quick lunch or a long shower, but it doesn’t seem like enough time to worry about how efficiently it’s been spent. But multiply that 20 minutes five thousand times and you begin to see the way that best use of 20 minutes compounded o …