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Frequently Asked Questions... See what everyone wants to know!
Some Other Important Things to Know!
How to I find outside vendors' phone numbers (other than those on my Booking Engine)?
To find outside vendors' phone numbers (other than vendors available through your booking engine) you may visit www.otid.com or www.USTOA.com. These are The Official Travel Industry Directory lists of vendors worldwide. If you
contact one of these vendors directly, please be sure you identify
yourself and give them your ARC or CLIA
number. Verify their commission policy. If you book with one
of these vendors, and they pay commissions, don't forget to complete
and submit a Commission Claim Form through your Travel Portal. Remember that not all vendors pay commissions.
Why doesn't the booking engine show a lock symbol when processing payment?
Your booking engine actually "frames" the vendor website that is
collecting the payment information so you are not able to see the
vendor's lock symbol. However, if you right click on the payment screen
and select properties from the menu, it should show the address
beginning with "https." The 's' after the http means that it is a
secure site.
Q: Is this a pyramid?
A: No, it is not because:
- Pyramids are illegal. We are a legal publicly traded company that been approved by the SEC.
- Pyramids are illegal because it is built upon individuals who
convince people to put money in a pool for an opportunity to make more
money than they invested, while not offering them a product or service
of comparable value.
- We don't receive commissions for recruiting people, commissions are paid to you when you sell someone a travel store.
First, based on what can be found on their websites (www.iata.org and www.iatan.org ) they are not the beginning nor the end of the say-so in the travel industry regarding Internet booked travel.
Read about their foundations:IATA - The International Air Transport Association (IATA) - was founded in Havana, Cuba,
in April 1945. It is the prime vehicle for inter-airline cooperation
in promoting safe, reliable, secure and economical air services - for
the benefit of the world's consumers. The international scheduled air
transport industry is now more than 100 times larger than it was in
1945. Few industries can match the dynamism of that growth, which would
have been much less spectacular without the standards, practices
and procedures developed within IATA.At its founding, IATA had 57 members from 31 nations, mostly in Europe and North America. Today it has some 240 members from more than 140 nations in every part of the globe.The modern IATA is the successor to the International Air Traffic Association founded in the Hague in 1919 - the year of the world's first international scheduled services.
IATAN: The International Airlines Travel Agent Network IATAN's
mission is to promote professionalism, administer meaningful and
impartial business standards, and to provide cost-effective products,
services and educational programs that benefit the travel industry. Through the use of its informational and other resources, IATAN provides a vital link between the supplier community and the U.S. travel distribution network.Basically,
the argument these two organizations support is that of traditional
travel agents who feel that home based travel agents are not true "professionals"in the travel field.
These
groups tend to have members who have made enough noise to where they
have a few organization affiliates (tour companies like Perillo Tours
and cruise lines like Royal Caribbean) fearing that Our company is in direct conflict
with their tradition on how travel was booked prior to the Internet.
Travel agents ALWAYS used referral based, word of mouth marketing. What
has them upset is the fact that Our Company is growing so rapidly and they feel
that any Internet based company the size of Our Company will jeopardize their
relationships with their current vendors. This is not the case.
Our Company is documented by www.dsa.org,
as a recently inducted member, as well as the Securities and Exchange
Commission. When the DSA and the SEC run you through the ringer, and you
come up clean, what difference does it make when a group does not
understand what you are truly made of? We are still a legitimate travel
agency.
Comparing apples to apples, IATA
nor IATAN have any lasting significant influence over what we are truly
all about; helping families do better for themselves by teaching them,
with no experience necessary, how to use the Internet to their
advantage in travel and business by creating an army of home
based entrepreneurs who refer others to their websites. Royal Caribbean is just a ship that passed in the night who took advantage of the $13 MILLION worth of travel that Our RTAs sold for them. Now, we are basically saying, "Royal Caribbean who?"
We have already been on record that we are not concerned with the
audiences of well established traditional agencies, but with those who
prefer to book their travel online, giving both the online home
business owner as well as the vendors a bigger share of the travel
marketplace.
"We are building a new company with new ideas." The Internet with a new face."
Hopefully IATA and IATAN traditional travel agents don't faint when our company hits 250,000 TSO's by the end of 2010!
Travel will double to $14 trillion by the end of the decade.
The
surge of the travel momentum is here. The baby boomer's retiring, 1 every 8 seconds for the next 17 years will ensure healthy consistent growth.
Plus, being
in the biggest industry in the history of the world, far bigger even
than the oil industry, is the biggest economic clue of all.
Buckle up everyone!
Get ready for the HUGE travel wave. It's at each and every one of our doorsteps right now.
Are we
committed to each helping educate someone else who would love to cash
in on the rewards for more time, family stability, health
benefits, retirement cushion, and life choice for their loved ones?
That's the goal for those of us who are serious about it.
There is more to life than money: there is the ability to bless others
with something that's out there for ALL of us to take part in.
People
will never stop entertaining themselves using the vehicle of travel. It
happens where we're born, when we die, and everywhere in-between. That
goes for people we know, and people we know who know people we don't
know, and so on and so forth, for the next 17 years.
Saturation? I think not. . .!
Q: Do We Have the Lowest Prices on the Internet?
A: Our model is built on relationships. We are not trying to guarantee the
rock bottom, low price every time someone books on our site. We just
need to be competitive with all the other sites, and we are... 95% of the time we are competitive and often we are less expensive.
So What's the Deal with IATA?