December 2, 2025 update: At the 2.5-year mark of being a full-time travel advisor, I am beginning to hit my stride with my business. The Andavo advisor community continues to be a major resource for destinations, supplier contacts and recommendations.
Over the last year, I connected and worked with a fellow travel advisor who works in group and incentive travel, an area I want to pursue for my business. I learned how they do their work and how Andavo Travel provides back-end support for these large projects. I am truly grateful for my colleague's generosity and patience as I shadowed the trips. I am also grateful for their support and encouragement to learn Sabre and become a full-service travel business. I'm excited to tap into these new skills and grow as a travel advisor and business owner!
January 16, 2024: Andavo Travel is a welcoming, friendly, professional and resourceful host agency. For someone like me, who has changed industries, it was a huge relief to know that there was someone I would work with as I learned the ins and outs of travel. I am extremely grateful for the decades of experience among leadership and fellow advisors as they have shared their gems and best practices with me. Thank you, Andavo Travel, for welcoming me to your travel advisor family!
I have been an independent contractor with Andavo for 7 years and can say nothing but wonderful things about my experience. Since the new owners tucked us under their arms in 2010, we have been given some amazing resources. We have an amazing independent network manager that oversees our program and is accessible by email or phone. We have hands-on owners that understand our needs and wishes and they do everything possible to make us successful. We have our own support person to help the independent contractors with questions and formats. We have a marketing person to keep us up-to-date on social media, sales strategies, creative marketing ideas and implementation via flyers and email campaigns.
To have all these valuable resources at our fingertips shows we as ICs are valuable to Andavo Travel and with new technology being designed for our benefit and industry enhancements in place, we are always on the leading edge. There are commission incentives in place to help us be our best as well. There is continual training from both Virtuoso and Andavo Travel.
If you want to be part of a company that truly cares about its employees and independents, this is the place to be.