12 Top Questions from Travel Agents to the Industry

Cheryl Rosen, www.travelmarketreport.com
How much do travel agents earn? What drives you crazy about working with suppliers? How do you find new talent? Asked and answered. 

At our quarterly Advisory Board meeting earlier this month, Travel Market Report asked six of our favorite travel professionals to share a dozen questions—and some answers—for the industry as a whole. Our thanks to the roundtable members, whom we think include the smartest, most conscientious, and most thoughtful travel professionals in the U.S. and Canada, our Advisory Board members: Maryls Aballi, owner, Connection to Cruise, Redlands, CA; Sandy Anderson, president, Riverdale Travel, Coon Rapids, MN; Dan Beschloss, director of industry relations, Valerie Wilson Travel, New York (standing in for Jennifer Wilson-Buttigieg); Jennifer Doncsecz, president, VIP Vacations Inc., Bethlehem, PA; Tony Fragapane, general manager, Voyages Concierge Deluxe Travel, Quebec; Norman Payne, Senior Travel Advisor, Uniglobe, Ottawa, Canada; Richard Vanderlubbe, president, tripcentral.ca, Ontario, Canada. FULL STORY