Travel Agent s Top Supplier Sales Reps

Travel industry sales reps are perpetually balanced on both sides of the business. They must know every detail about their company, and know exactly what travelers need so that an agent can properly sell that resort/hotel/cruise/tour to their clients. They are a vital, and often underappreciated, part of the industry, keeping both their companies and their agents happy and in business.

This past spring we ran a survey on TravelAgentCentral.com. asking our readers to nominate their picks for the best supplier sales reps in individual sectors of the travel business. The response was overwhelming: With nearly 800 votes across a wide range of categories, you told us who taught you the most, who helped you sell tours and destinations and cruises, who was there when you needed them, and who went that extra mile for you.

After many long days and nights of sorting through ballots and crunching numbers, we are pleased to bring you the results. In this issue, we celebrate the top sales reps in each category, as well as the top runners-up. (Note: Two categories—Car Rental and Tourist Board —had such a wide divergence of nominees that only the top vote getters are reported here.) These are the people who reach out to you regularly, who step up to the plate for you, who make certain that you’ll know exactly what to offer your clients.

Join us in congratulating all your top supplier sales reps, and start thinking about who you’d like to see on these pages next year.

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