If you sell any type of travel, you should offer the benefits of a travel insurance program to your customers to avoid the problems of credit card charge backs with your customers when they have to unexpectedly cancel, interrupt, or be evacuated from their trip.

Over my 17+ years in tourism, this is one of the biggest areas of potential financial challenges for suppliers of travel because when a customer cancels for good reason after your cancellation period expires, and does not have travel insurance, they often wants their money back.  Customers can get pretty nasty, especially when there's lots of money involved, are not able to do their trip and want their money back.

Join Tim Warren as he interviews Bonnie Ratchka,  National Accounts Manager for  AIG Travel Guard on the top reasons why selling travel insurance helps you and your customers too.

Key Points Covered in Travel Business Success Radio, Episode # 37

• Types of Travel Cancellation Coverage

• Travel Interruption Insurance Coverage

• Travel Emergency Insurance with Air Evacuation Coverage

• Travel Cancellation Insurance for Business Reasons ( New)

• Insurance for Travel Consumers to Protect Their Investment if the Supplier has a problem 

• How You Can Make Money Offering Travel Insurance Products to your clients

Clients do stupid things on trips so if they have insurance,  they are more protected and so are you. 

 

Listen to Show Here                            Download MP3 Here

 

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I am at the underground internet marketing conference in los Angeles with Yanik Silver, Founder of the event and founder of my new project Maverick Business Adventures. One of the challenges we made to over 350 attendees was:

What can you do with US$100 in the next 24 hours to help the world? We are calling it: MBA Big Give.

The winner James Schranko from Australia created a website from scratch to help deaf and blind children worldwide. I was touched and know his efforts will make a difference. I encourage you to  provide a backlink, a donation and see what you can do today to make a BIG Give and a Big Difference in the world.

Blessing, Tim Warren

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1. Think podcasting won’t sell travel.
2. Think you have to be a techie to podcast.
3. Believe podcasting is a fad and only teenagers listen and watch podcasts.
4. Feel you have to be a movie or radio star to be the host of a podcast.
5. Pay tons of money on print advertising when you can get iTunes to promote you to over 100 million listeners & viewers for fr+ee.
6. Spend 10’s of thousands in video and audio production and equipment when the top travel video Podcasts on iTunes cost less than $1,000 per episode.
7. Will wait until next year to learn about podcasting.

3 Critical Questions to Help Travel and Hospitality
Succeed and Make Money with Podcasting

1. Do you wonder what the heck Podcasting is?
2. Are you not sure why Podcasting is important to current and future tourism professionals?
3. Can you relate to any of the 7 stupid Podcasting mistakes?

If you want to see for yourself why podcasting is hot and will make you money online, then register for this 90 minute teleseminar with the #1 Podcast monetization experts Alex Mandossian and Paul Colligan.

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