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Trade Secrets at Virtuoso Travel Week, Part 2: As a Travel Advisor, How do I Break Into the World of Luxury Travel Sales?

Sep 09, 2024
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Trade Secrets at Virtuoso Travel Week, Part 2: As a Travel Advisor, How do I Break Into the World of Luxury Travel Sales?
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Trade Secrets is on the road again, this time at Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas. In the second episode of a three-part series recorded on-site in Las Vegas, Megan Vatnsdal, owner of Onyx & Evergreen Travel and affiliate of Four Hundred, talks about how she’s spent the past few years building her luxury-focused agency. She, along with co-hosts Emma Weissmann and Jamie Biesiada, cover everything from building a book of business, to getting in front of luxury clients, to using professional community events to network.

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- From Travel Weekly: Evidence of Normalization in Travel This year

- Trade Secrets at Virtuoso Travel Week, part 1

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Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print and online magazine for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the host of the Humans of Travel podcast, where she interviews notable individuals in the travel industry about their lives — the highs and lows that make them human.

Jamie Biesiada is a Senior Editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors’ 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine. 

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Trade Secrets, a podcast from the editors of Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, is where travel advisors ask — and answer — questions. On each podcast, our editors will ask a veteran travel industry insider to join them and field listeners’ questions. Topics will range from business advice to industry trends, history and more — as long as it’s travel-related, we want to address it! Find Trade Secrets wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.travelagewest.com/podcasts/trade-secrets.

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