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Travel Market Overview
We connect travel suppliers, travel agents, and their clients in the $136 billion leisure travel market.
For more than 75 years, the properties that collectively make up the Questex Travel Group have connected the industry through a variety of print media, trade events, and online products. Success in this space has been fueled largely by our ability to adapt to the changing needs of the industry and advances in technology. Travel Agent magazine, Home-Based Travel Agent magazine and its Expo serve brick-and-mortar agents and an increasing number of Internet savvy home-based agents. TravelAgentCentral.com is an Internet portal for the community of agents and suppliers to connect with one another and access exclusive information that helps them do their jobs better. Projected to grow by 24% by 2010, the luxury travel market is served by the monthly magazine Luxury Travel Advisor, the bi-annual Premier Hotels & Resorts, premierhotels.com, fivestaralliance.com, and the yearly event Luxury Travel Expo.
Media Brands
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Celebrating its 77th anniversary in 2007, Travel Agent Magazine is the leading trade publication of the travel industry. It presents, interprets and analyzes news trends and issues in a way agents can use to sell more travel, more effectively. Travel Agent Magazine is the most popular travel trade publication, with the largest circulation and most loyal readership of its competitive set.
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Home-Based Travel Agent Magazine is a unique publication targeted to the specific needs of home-based travel agents. Covering both the travel and running a home-based business, Home-Based Travel Agent Magazine is edited for both the agent and the traveler in a unique "For Me", "For My Client" format. Every issue of Home-Based Travel Agent Magazine brings the home-based agents powerful information they can use to increase their business, boost their sales and profit to become more successful from their home offices.
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Travel agents that become specialists in specific travel products sell a lot more. Travel Agent Custom offers a myriad of tailored programs that have enabled many different suppliers to develop legions of travel specialists. With dynamic programs in print and online, agents can receive the information in a format that best suits their information needs. Additionally, Travel Agent University which has graduated more specialists than any other custom program is the industry's largest on-line travel education site.
Travel suppliers are afforded the opportunity to really connect with a core group of loyal, motivated agents that generate an astonishing volume of incremental bookings year in and year out.
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Luxury Travel Advisor is the first and only publication dedicated to the unique and specific needs of luxury travel counselors. Every issue of Luxury Travel Advisor imparts intricate information that enables luxury professionals to enhance their sales skills. Insider secrets relate valuable nuggets of otherwise hidden information to the professionals that need them. Designed to meet market standards of excellence, Luxury Travel Advisor features graphics and photography that evoke a luxurious tone and reflect the up-market information the publications shares with high-end professionals.
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The resource luxury agents rely on to advise their elite clientele on the world's top luxury properties. Premier Hotels & Resorts features more than 450 of the world's best hotels. Alphabetical listings by destination ensure an easy-to-read format with complete booking information at your fingertips.
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The only publication detailing destination and resort spas, romantic getaways and honeymoon destinations compiled for luxury travel advisors and avid spa enthusiasts/vacationing couples.
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Five Star Alliance, the leading web site for luxury hotels, features the Internet's most comprehensive collection of luxury properties. The company's mission is to serve luxury hoteliers by delivering incremental sales. Five Star Alliance provides luxury hotels with exposure to a large, worldwide audience of upscale travelers, and enables hotels to leverage the online distribution channel while protecting their brand and maintaining control of their inventory. By focusing 100% on luxury properties, Five Star Alliance offers affluent travelers an unparalleled resource for discovering, researching, and booking the world's best hotels.
Events
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Las Vegas - Dec. 2-4, 2008
Luxury Travel Expo's tenth anniversary is being held at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas and remains the only travel event entirely dedicated to providing suppliers and agents a forum for dialogue and education concerning all things luxury. Luxury Travel Expo continues to be the most influential luxury event in North America, instructing agents on how to effectively promote and sell the luxury market.
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Las Vegas - June 23-25, 2008
Produced by Luxury Travel Advisor, Premier Hotels & Resorts and Travel Agent Magazine, Incentive Travel Exchange is the most exclusive appointment-based incentive travel event in the U.S. The event brings suppliers and pre-qualified incentive buyers together in a turnkey event focusing on one-on-one pre-set meetings. Complementing the event are networking events and meal functions to further enhance attendees' time out of the office. Attendance is by invitation only and hand selected suppliers will be asked to participate.
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Las Vegas - Dec. 2-4, 2008
The Home-Based Travel Agent Expo & Conference is designed to address the unique needs of these travel agents. Home-based agents are small business owners with significant annual bookings who are hungry to gather information, to network, to forge new relationships with suppliers and strengthen existing relationships, to better serve their customers and to run a more efficient business. The second annual show drew 2,3000 agents.
