The Flagg Agency

Certified Special Needs Group Travel Advocate

It has been a couple of week since I posted an update. I have been taking the time to learn, renew and refocus. There have been several surveys in my industry that show that you are ready and intend to travel more in 2012. I have been keeping up to date with the latest cruise and resort news from around the industry. I have also been going through several sessions of online training.

Our Office at Club Med Cancun

If you have ever read the note at the bottom of each and every post, you may have notived that we are travel consultants. One of the ways we become experts is not from book knowledge but from actually tasting, touching, feeling, smelling and exploring parts of the world. We thought we would use this post to show you the office of a professional travel consultant who travels.

There will always be people who enjoy booking travel themselves. There are several do-it your self ways to do it, but when you come to a travel agent seeking advice be sure and ask the right questions. Just as there are good and bad cruise experiences, there are good and bad travel agents. We hope this column will give you some ideas on how to pick a travel agent.

It has happened in about a week. I made a post on a cruise related message board asking about becoming a home based travel agent. Before the post was removed (they have travel agent sponsors), my post was read by a franchisee here in GA. He sent me an email about who he was working for and that he had in fact made a decision to sell his franchise a week before.

I have consulted my friends, my attorney, my wife, my soul and made the decision whether he truly wanted to sell or not, that I would invest my time, energy and money into this adventure. This would allow me to work from home while having funding from my “sugar mama”.