Steph and Shayna welcome Sheila Folk of Travel Industry Solutions to cohost the Friday 15 this week! You can check out TIS’s profile here on our brand-new travel tech software profiles.Here are the juicy questions they’ll tackle this Friday, as always, at 12 pm CST! 

1. Hi Stephanie and Team! Thanks for all you do! I am hitting a wall trying to figure out how to bill for group FIT trips. To have each person in the group pay individually for each hotel reservation and activity would cause many foreign transaction fees on their credit cards. It is so much easier to just collect one payment/client and then I could pay it to all of the vendors on my business credit card which has no foreign transaction fees. However, I have heard multiple times that this is not best practice. I called and emailed my host company about this and their only advice was to talk with other advisors about what they do which is fine, but I want to make sure I am doing things properly. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated! Appreciate all you do!

Sincerely,

Anonymous

2. Dear HAR, I’m a relatively new advisor (I started about a year and a half ago) and I am trying to understand the concept of “leads”. My host agency (which I love!) does not have a lead generation program, and I would really like to see how a lead works and practice using my training and skills with a mock lead. Do you know of any programs or practice websites/workbooks for this? Also, in the future how might I generate real leads on my own? Thank you for everything you all do!

Lisa B.

RESOURCES:

Do you need a travel agent license/seller of travel registration? https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/travel-agent-license-seller-of-travel-license

What does FIT in travel mean?

https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/fit-travel-meaning

F15 on tour operator vs. agent (Episode 138) https://hostagencyreviews.com/friday15/how-to-navigate-clients-loyalty-programs-stay-clients-agent-not-tour-operator-project-management-platforms-outside-crm

What is a DMC in travel? https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/what-is-dmc-destination-management-company

Credit card processing for travel agencies https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/credit-card-processing-for-travel-agencies

Travel waivers to protect your travel agency https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/travel-waivers-protect-your-travel-agency

Travel agent technology: payment solutions https://hostagencyreviews.com/travel-agency-software/category/payment-solutions

List of travel industry lawyers and contact information

Do travel agents need errors and omissions (E&O) insurance? https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/travel-agents-need-eo-insurance

Travel Industry Solutions’ HAR profile https://hostagencyreviews.com/travel-agency-software/travel-industry-solutions

Travel Industry Solutions website https://travelindustrysolutions.com/

Travel Leads: Here’s what you need to know. https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/travel-leads

Do you need a travel agent license/seller of travel registration? https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/travel-agent-license-seller-of-travel-license

https://hostagencyreviews.com/blog/what-do-travel-agents-do

TIS/HAR webinar: How to find clients without feeling overwhelmed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMAI7rKAN1Q

Dale Carnegie trainings https://www.dalecarnegie.com/en

Simon Sinek - Art of Presenting course

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