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The Adventure Council

The Adventure Council™, in partnership with the Adventures in Travel Expo, has developed a training program to assist travel agents/trade to fully maximize the fast-growing active and adventure travel segment in order to promote new business for agents and adventure travel suppliers.  Upon completion of this program, agents will be designated Adventure Travel Specialists.

November 2008 3 Part Webinar
Tuesday November 11, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
Wednesday November 12, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST
Thursday November 13, 1:00pm-2:30pm EST

Click Here to Register


*Note:
  You must participate in all three parts of the Webinar to become an Adventure Travel Specialist. The webinar will be recorded for those whose schedules don't work for any of these dates.

In this comprehensive 3-part Webinar, participants will gain a better understanding and obtain the tools to help sell adventure travel.  Topics to be covered include:

  • Current trends & demographics
  • Key factors defining adventure traveler preferences
  • Emerging destinations
  • Providers – building profitable partnerships
  • Marketing strategies and the use of technology
  • The increasingly important role of sustainable tourism practices

*Note:  You must participate in all three parts of the Webinar to become an Adventure Travel Specialist

For a complete list of speakers, Click here.

Upon completion of the 3-Part Adventure Travel Specialist Designation Webinar, travel agents will be well positioned to capture a greater share of the exploding active and adventure travel marketplace, and to better service existing and new clients.  Here are the marketing tools you’ll receive when you become an Adventure Travel Specialist:

  • “Adventure Travel Specialist” Logo which can be used to promote your “specialist designation” on your website, newsletters to your clients, etc.
  • Mention as an Adventure Travel Specialist in a future issue of National Geographic ADVENTURE
  • A print and online listing in the 2008 Active and Adventure Travel Directory and Adventure Council website
  • Free Adventure Sales Starter Pack through Adventure Engine ($1,500 value)
  • A one-year complimentary subscription to National Geographic ADVENTURE 

For more information on the Adventure Travel Specialist Designation program, please contact Diane McLevy, Adventure Council, at 203-878-2577 x125, dmclevy@adventurecouncil.com.






Advisory Board

Costas Christ
President,
The Adventure Council

Francis Farrell
Publisher, National Geographic ADVENTUE

Roger Dow
President, Travel Industry Association of America

Richard Bangs
Founder,
Richard Bangs Adventures

Brian Mullis
President, Sustainable Travel International

John Golicz
Chief Executive Officer
Adventures in Travel Expo

Richard Edwards
Executive Director
Trusted Adventures

Yiannis Skevis
President, Aegean Adventures

Hitesh Mehta
Director of Ecotourism
E.D.S.A

Kathy Sudeikis
Former President, American Society of Travel Agents

 
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