01/02/2024
I shared a little the other day about one of them most common questions I receive as a travel agent! I wanted to share a little more today on the biggest question I hear ... "Why use a travel agent?" I've shared about this before, but it's something I would share again and again for clients to understand just how much effort we put into taking care of them!!!
There are plenty of reasons to use a travel agent, but the one that makes the biggest impact is that I am an actual human, and I care about you as a client to not only find you the right priced vacation with awesome activities, but to make sure I've done the research on quality and safety for your vacation!!! And ... when you have a question ... I will answer my texts, emails, and my phone ... and I don't make you wait on hold for 3 hours!!! A website can't offer or guarantee this for you.
Even with travel insurance, booking on a website without knowing that you'll be able to talk with an actual person for questions, concerns, if you want to add anything, if anything goes wrong, etc., can come with a lot of risk in the travel world. A website doesn't offer expertise to best tailor your vacation to you ... it just pops out different locations at you with the lowest price. There's not always a person to tell you that it's hurricane season, or share with you that it's the busiest week of the year to travel there, or let you know any other important details that may affect your travel dates.
But most important is that I love what I do and have a passion for helping clients with their travels, and no matter whether you're a client I'm just meeting for the first time or you're one one of my closest family and friends, it means the world to me (pun intended!) to work hard and prepare a fabulous vacation for you! I am so blessed to be able to work with such amazing clients every day, and that's a huge factor to make it all worth it! A website isn't designed to care the way a person does, and you can't trust a website the way you can an agent who has put their heart and knowledge into your vacation, and pays attention to what you want in your vacation!!!
And, as a travel agent, I get the added bonus of working with some of the greatest travel agents I know! Which is an added bonus for my clients as well when I can collaborate with other agents to increase my knowledge and expertise to better help with your vacations! Another thing that a website can't offer.
So, for anyone wanting to know why you should use a travel agent, I will always smile because I am more than happy to share just how amazing it is to work with a travel agent to take the stress out of planning your vacation, know that you have an incredible vacation tailored to what you want and need during your vacation, and prove that you have someone who cares about preparing a fun, memory making vacation specifically for you!!!
For my clients that have seen and believe in the value of a travel agent, thank you from the bottom of my heart for supporting me in a small business! I can't do it without you! And I am so thankful to the great team of agents I get to work with all the time to love on our clients with the best vacations!!!
