Travel Agent Finder launches industry directory Travel Trade Connect – Travel Weekly

As the travel field recovers from the pandemic, many teams are rebuilding and organizations are getting new lifetime breathed into them.

This influenced Anna Shannon of Travel Agent Finder to start an Aussie vacation business directory, Travel Trade Link.

Shannon’s main company, Journey Agent Finder, is a single of the largest databases of journey brokers working in Australia, with over 550 Australian agents having joined due to the fact start, most being independent, residence-based or mobile brokers.

“As the sector rebounds, agents are ever more busy and time very poor,” Shannon mentioned.

“In an agent study in January, 100 for each cent of respondents expressed a have to have to very easily uncover contacts for companies who guidance and benefit vacation brokers, to assist streamline their organization.

“In a a lot more current look at-in 6 months later, 74 per cent are continue to owning issue finding the contacts they have to have.

“Trade associates are in a identical circumstance. Pre-pandemic call lists are outdated, lessened physical shop quantities and gatherings protect against networking with brokers in the previous methods.

“It is complicated to find who is even now working and how to get hold of them. Quite a few organizations experienced to downsize their gross sales crew, the natural way, folks and processes have transformed.

“Some firms are no more time with us at all, and agents are seeking alternatives to the product or service ranges and makes they experienced arrive to know and rely on.

“As teams rebuild, we want to hook up trade companion BDMs and representatives with agents, in a a single-halt-store, Travel Trade Connect.”

The directory is situated inside of the member-only part of Travel Agent Finder and lets trade companions to checklist their business enterprise contacts and goods or services to travel agents by using their business profile website page.

Brokers can look for the directory by class or search phrase to discover what they want and connect with the appropriate individual speedily. Agents attain accessibility to means all in a person spot, these kinds of as trade portals, media asset libraries, incentives, expert education platforms, marketing campaign updates, spouse activities and more.

Shannon stated, “this is a value-included function for our travel agent members and is accessible for absolutely free to all vacation agents who be a part of Journey Agent Finder.”

All customers (brokers and trade associates) have obtain to the listing. So, when the listing has been developed with agents in brain, partners might also advantage by finding trade guidance companies or collaboration alternatives.

“After the toughest time period our industry has ever found, it’s time to reconnect, rebuild our business and get
Australians travelling once again,” Shannon concluded.

Featured Image: Anna Shannon – the proprietor of Vacation Agent Finder