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Strategic Travel Entrepreneur: Business Tips for Travel Agents/Advisors, Travel Agency Owners, and Travel Business Owners
Each week I share, along with featured guests, tangible and practical business strategies for travel entrepreneurs.
We discuss foundations, marketing, sales, client experience, systems, supplier relations, and everything in between to empower you to run an effective and profitable travel business, and not just another travel hobby.
For travel agents, travel advisors, travel suppliers, tour operators, tourism professionals, travel coaches, travel creators, travel business owners, travel agency owners, host agency owners, and travel industry support partners.
Strategic Travel Entrepreneur: Business Tips for Travel Agents/Advisors, Travel Agency Owners, and Travel Business Owners
Ep 205 7 Deadly Sins That Prevent Travel Agency Growth
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Ready to shake up your travel business and stop the cycle of frustration?
I'm breaking down the seven deadly sins keeping travel agency owners stuck - from hiding behind silence to depending too much on supplier content.
If you're wondering why your bookings aren't flowing or why growth feels impossible, these business sins might be the culprit!
Give your travel biz the tough love it deserves by addressing these fatal mistakes and switching from hobbyist thinking to true CEO mindset.
Your business is a living, breathing entity that needs nurturing, so let's get you visible, vocal, and thriving in 2025 and beyond!
Questions this episode answers:
- What mistakes are preventing my travel agency from growing?
- How can travel advisors stop relying on supplier content for marketing?
- Why isn't my travel business making money despite my efforts?
- How important is showing my face and sharing my story as a travel business owner?
- Why is being specific better than being general in travel marketing?
- How can I stop treating my travel agency like a hobby and start treating it like a business?
- Why are referrals not enough to sustain a travel business long-term?
- How do I develop confidence as a travel advisor to be more visible online?
Enjoy (and take action)!
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Rita M. Perez (Host) first began in the travel industry as a travel advisor in 2010. She only fully realized her role as a travel entrepreneur in 2018, and embarked on a mission to support her fellow travel advisors in 2021 when she began the Strategic Travel Entrepreneur Podcast. She now strategizes with travel entrepreneurs, so they too can build sustainable travel agencies and market effectively.
She's a maven when it comes to content photography and videography, and as such founded the Cruise Content Library and leads retreats and partners on FAMs where advisors get top notch content and education for their marketing efforts.
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