More Upgrades for YTB from Funshine Trade Show
The updates and upgrades keep coming from the YTB Home Office. Fresh off of Funshine East '07, YTB's Travel Trade Show held Friday and Saturday, October 5-6, in Orlando, FL, another major update has been made to the back office on the travel side of the business, YTB Travel Network. This new look and feel matches the updates and upgrades made back at the National Convention in August in St. Louis. Thousands of RTA's were given access to dozens of vendors, many of whom conducted special seminars to educate and train our valued RTA's how to market and sell their particular product or service. Corporate Representatives who conducted these trainings came from well know and respected industry leaders such as Universal Studios, Celebrity Cruise Tours, Holland America Line, Collette Vacations, Trip Tailor, Oceania Cruises, Honeymoon Wishes, Trafalgar, Carnival Cruise Lines, Globus Family of Brands, Pleasant Holidays, NCL, Celebrity Cruise Lines, American Destinations, FunJet Vacations, and Dreamlink Golf. These hour long sessions were invaluable in providing information along with tips, resources and tools designed to give out clients the best vacation experience possible while maximizing earnings for our RTA's.
The new look and features of the new Travel Portal (the RTA's back office) includes the first installment of the E-Campus training designed by Marc Mancini and TheAcademy.com. Many other features include direct links and phone numbers for industry vendors including air, hotel, cruise, rail, Government tourism offices, and various tour vendors. This new upgrade also gives more a more intuitive layout and better access to links and documents in promoting and building a more productive and profitable travel business.
As a result of the tremendous group volume YTB is generating for Royal Caribbean Cruises, our own YTB Travel Network staff will begin processing your group reservations for Royal Caribbean. The Home Office staff will be using the same systems as the Royal Caribbean group desk, but will be able to give RTAs more personalized service. Knowing how much YTB books with Carnival as well, and not wanting to be outdone, I look for Carnival Cruise Lines to follow suit.
Groups of 8 or more cabins will be handled by the Home Office Group Cruise Department. Continue to book individual cruises or groups less than 8 cabins via the website or directly with Royal Caribbean.
General Royal Caribbean cruise questions will still be answered by the Travel Support Department at the same phone number, Option 3. Group bookings and quotes will be handled by the Group Cruise Department at the same phone number, Ext. 4159 or Ext. 4208.
An important note for our existing RTA's out in the field, as always, if you want to add any group cruise to the website, you will need to download the Group Cruise Guidelines and Group Cruise Information Sheet.
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