Sponsored – The Loneliness Problem in Travel: Why Community Is the Benefit Nobody’s Talking About
You Can Handle the Supplier Hold Queue. It’s the Tuesday Afternoon With No One to Call That Breaks People. Written By: WorldVia Travel Network Nobody put it in the job description. But if you’ve been a travel advisor for more than a year, especially as an independent, you know the feeling. It’s a Tuesday […]
10 AI Tools Every Travel Agent Should Be Using Right Now
A Practical Guide to the Ten AI Tools Every Travel Advisor Should Be Using in 2026 Written By: Tom Ogg, Co-Founder and Co-Owner – Travel Professional NEWS Yes, the robots are here. No, they’re not stealing your job. But they will absolutely steal your excuse for not answering emails faster. Let me be honest with […]
Sponsored – Beyond the Commission Split: What Strong Support Looks Like
The Commission Split Gets the Attention — The Back-End Support Gets the Business Built Travel is an appealing business for obvious reasons: the destinations, the relationships, and the satisfaction of helping someone take a long-awaited trip. Yet much of what determines whether a travel business can grow happens after the exciting part. Commission tracking, […]
Sponsored – What Modern Travel Agency Software Should Fix
Seven Logins, Seven Problems — Why Fragmented Tech Is Quietly Costing You More Than You Think Written By: Cruise Planners Most home-based travel advisors are running their businesses across seven or more disconnected systems. That number comes from a 2025 Sabre global survey of 499 agencies, which found that 91% operate on four […]
Sponsored – Beyond Booking: How Host Agencies Like Nexion Empower Travel Advisors to Build a Full-Service Business
Contributed By: Nexion Travel Group There’s a persistent myth that host agencies just process bookings, but that framing misses what’s actually happening for advisors who partner with a host like Nexion: access to an entire business infrastructure they’d otherwise have to build alone. Think about what running an independent agency actually requires — […]
How to Become a Travel Agent Without Experience in 2026
The Best Host Agencies for New Travel Agents With No Experience in 2026 Written By: Tom Ogg, Co-Founder and Co-Owner – FindaHostTravelAgency.com I hear this question all the time and the answer to it is a resounding YES! Many host agencies have formidable opportunities for brand new travel agents with absolutely no experience to immediately […]
Creating an Email Campaign Strategy That Doesn’t Put Your Clients to Sleep
“Dear Valued Customer” Is Not a Strategy — Here’s What Actually Gets Travel Emails Opened Written By: Tom Ogg, Co-Founder and Co-Owner – FindaHostTravelAgency.com Part One Let’s be brutally honest with each other for a moment. If your current email marketing strategy consists of blasting “Check Out These AMAZING Cruise Deals!!!” to your entire contact […]
Your New Best Employee Never Takes a Lunch Break (Or a Vacation) – Part 2
A Practical Guide to the Best Dedicated AI Travel Planning Apps for Home-Based Advisors Written By: Joanie Ogg, CTC, MCC – FindaHostTravelAgency.com The Purpose-Built App All-Stars Beyond the general-purpose LLMs that we discussed in the last article, there is a wave of dedicated AI travel planning apps that have emerged, each with a specialty. Consider […]
So You Signed With a Host Agency – Now What? A 2026 Guide for the Modern Travel Advisor in an AI-Driven World
What New Travel Advisors Should Do in Their First 90 Days With a Host Agency Written By: Tom Ogg, Co-Founder and Co-Owner – FindaHostTravelAgency.com Congratulations. You’ve survived the gauntlet: the business plan drafts, the late-night research rabbit holes, and the very important question of whether to use “travel advisor” or “travel agent” in your email […]
TPN Chats: The Power of In Person Events and Cruise World 2026 with Cat Brask of Northstar Travel Group
July 6th, 2026 – In this episode of TPN Chat, Andy Ogg sits down with Cat Brask, Senior Director of Marketing for Northstar Travel Group’s retail events, for a candid conversation about why in-person industry events still matter more than ever — and what Cruise World, taking place November 4-6 in Fort Lauderdale, delivers that […]