Avoya Travel, an American Express Travel Representative

Love My Job!!!! Avoya has the technology and tools to enable us to succeed in a great business. Work at home, do as much or as little as you want. Your Income is your own decision. No boss looking over your shoulder. No arguments with colleagues in a cubicle next to you Create great relationships. The ability to travel. Theres more

I think one of the greatest aspects about Avoya is the cohesiveness of the Independent Agents and Avoya's mechanism to help them connect. I honestly don't think I would have made it this far without the support in the Community Forum. Avoya promotes a professional relationship among the agents, allowing new IA's like myself to learn from seasoned veterans.

As well, the support offered by the Avoya team is also simply amazing. Whether it's the Mastermind team with the opportunity to grow your knowledge, or the support personnel who work with us in ever aspect of the client or trip, everyone is top notch!

I love this company. The support, training and service is fabulous! I've just referred two other independent agents and one has joined, the other is in the process. Thanks AVOYA, exactly what I was looking for!

Although I have traveled extensively my whole life selling travel was all new to me. Avoya has been great for someone coming into this without a travel agent background. The learning & support especially since joining the Master Mind group has been key to getting me to where I am. I researched and considered a number of host agencies and am glad I chose Avoya. My advice to any new IA would be to not measure yourself by others. Although you will never stop learning there is a lot to learn just to get up to speed. Days of frustration & a large time commitment for learning is overwhelming at first but by 6 months there will be less doubt. Be patient. Also give yourself a break by not trying to learn to many vendors at once.

All the support that I received is invaluable to someone new to the industry. Everyone is very caring in answering questions and all the webinars helped me learn all aspects of travel.

The resources you provide to each and every IA is second to none. I don't have enough words to express my gratitude to this company for its unparalleled level of professionalism and expertise. You are a host agency's host agency: You listen, adapt, and implement. I have only been in the Avoya network for 60 days, and I wish I knew you sooner. I thank God for Avoya Travel!

I love the accessibility of the Avoya Network and how I may be in business for myself but not by myself. I love that there is a support group out there at the main offices and the Mastermind program is fabulous! I've been with them for over 10 years now and looking forward to many more years to come!

I've been with Avoya for over a year and my experience has been terrific. It was easy to set up my business and affiliate with them. Their live lead system is great. Yes, you will get leads that have no interest, but so do brick and mortar stores. People browsing and gathering information. That is were your sales technique kicks in. It gives you ample opportunity to sharpen your approach to selling travel. I've spoken with other agents here at Avoya and their business took off immediately while others it took some time. My biggest success has been on the repeat client. Ultimately, it's up to you if you succeed or fail. Avoya tries to offer you all the tools - take advantage of it. I'm very grateful for what Avoya has been able to offer me.

Lots of available training, resources, and accessibility, and the live leads program.

Hi, I just wanted to tell you all a little bit about my experience with this company. I also want to point out that most of these good reviews were just days in between and most clustered all on the same day, as seems to be a pattern if you go through them all, that should be a red flag for anyone reading them.

My husband and I both signed up with them a couple years back. Some background, we have both been business owners of several very successful brick and mortar businesses, not travel but in another industry. And sold all at top capacity and top dollar. Those businesses are still in business and doing well with the foundation and training we left them with. We currently own a business that is doing very well to the point where we won several awards from our franchise. Both of us are educated people and know business.

From the very beginning it was a nightmare. When we filled out our business forms which were simple and ones we have filled out many many times for our other businesses we were told they were filled out incorrectly. One was a direct deposit form, W9 Reference Form and the last was a credit card authorization form. My husband got asked to redo his approximately 15 times and I was asked to redo mine close to 30 times, all in Docusign, until I started taking screen shots and sending them to the person handling this piece of the business, knowing the forms were filled out correctly. Then suddenly they were fine. This was done by a woman named Melissa who I think was just abusing what little power she had. We have filled these forms out in our careers more times than I can count and can do them in our sleep. Apparently this is a problem because the president of the travel school we went to told us to watch for those forms, that apparently they were very "hard to fill out".

You can't schedule your training until the forms are filled out so my husband got his date first and mine was several days later. I was sitting in on his training on our computer in our living room and when the trainer realized I was watching with him and it wasn't my training date they said I would have to leave the room. In my own home. On my own computer. Completely ridiculous. I thought I would go through training twice and they should have been glad I was willing to do that. Of course I didn't leave.

The tech, when it worked was awesome. Like I said, when it worked. The so-called live leads shouldn't be confused with viable leads. They were just people that had to sign up to look at the deals on the website. Almost none were ready to make a decision. Despite that, I sold my first cruise my first week. My commission on that was $25 by the time they got their cut and I spent a lot of time on it. My brother in law had signed up to look at deals some time before I was with Avoya and wanted to use me to book any future cruises and they wouldn't allow me to have his business as business I brought with me and wanted to pay me as if he was a live lead provided by them which is a drastic difference. He doesn't even remember signing up with them. My advice to him was go directly to the cruise company. They cruise 5-8 times a year, it would have been smart for them to do the right thing.

I then sold another cruise, a rather expensive European cruise and again, I didn't make nearly what I should have given the time I spent on it. Then I booked a third cruise, again European, and I never received ANY of my commission on any cruise I booked. Did I call and try to get my money? No. We only got into this because we thought it would be fun and we would get discounts on travel. My experience during the forms incident, and the poor treatment by Jennifer Anderson who I begged to help with that situation told me it was going to be a fruitless effort. So I walked away. I think the problem was that there was a another company with the same name as mine under their umbrella which they failed to mention or I would have picked another name. In fact, they didn't even know, I had to call their attention to it.My husband got such a bad taste in his mouth because of the first few encounters he never even tried to sell anything. We were both charged separation fee's even though he never went beyond the training.

In closing, I think the training was ok, the tools were ok, the tech was good when it worked but the management is absolutely terrible. You absolutely have no recourse if something goes wrong and had I gotten paid, the compensation was terrible. Which also factored into my decision to not take them to task for not paying me. It simply wasn't worth it. I would definitely go somewhere else.