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| About Us |
Travel Planners International is a full service host travel agency, supporting independent contractors and travel agencies since 1988. TPI sells all types of travel including air, car, hotel, cruise, and tour products through its growing national sales force of professional travel agents/agencies. With TPI, our agents receive 70% to 100% commission, robust agent booking and customer management platforms filled with agent booking tools, all four GDS’s (Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan), consumer websites with content and booking engines, along with the most dedicated and caring support staff in the industry. With a reputation of being the best of the best and the experience in hosting agents since 1988, along with flexible hosting plans, the decision to partner with TPI is clear. With TPI, new and experienced agents can concentrate on selling travel and building client loyalty without the administrative and expensive burden of owning/operating a traditional storefront travel agency. We don’t compete with our agents because hosting is all we do.
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| Mission-Vision-Values |
Mission:
Our mission is to provide all of the tools, support and fulfillment services that will assist each of our travel partners to be the most knowledgeable, efficient, competitive, and profitable leisure and corporate sellers in the travel industry.
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Vision:
Our vision is to be unrivaled in the travel industry by continuously developing new business relationships and opportunities.
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Values:
Integrity: We are committed to honesty, loyalty, and a high standard of ethical conduct.
Customer-Focused: We are committed to providing the highest level of customer service. We extend this to our agents, their customers and our preferred suppliers.
Results-Orientated: We believe our success depends upon our leadership and management teams’ abilities to focus and execute their mission on schedule.
Teamwork: We believe in building and maintaining long-term, professional, win-win relationships with our employees, agents, preferred suppliers and all our business partners in order to achieve mutual success.
Excellence: We are committed to being a high performance organization by staying focused on total customer satisfaction. We continuously analyze our processes and ourselves in order to become the best of the best.
Innovative: We are committed to developing and implementing cutting-edge technologies for our agents and preferred suppliers.
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| Press Releases |
A Growing Host Agency, April 2004
New Services & Products, August 2005
New Services & Products, September 2005
New Direct Mail Program, October 2005
New Client Base Browser, November 2005
TPI Launches New Technology Platform - TPI-AgentRC - July 2006
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TPI in the News |
Travel World News / March 2002
Travel World News / October 2002
Travel Agent Magazine / March 2003
CCRA Newsletter / December 2003
Travel Agent Magazine / February 2004
Agent @ Home Magazine / May 2005
Travel Trade Magazine - Home Based Trade - September 2005
Modern Agent TV - Video of CEO Tony Gagliano and Kim Sherrett - October 2005
Travel Trade Magazine - Host Agency Supplement - October 2005 Issue
Travel Trade Magazine - October 10, 2005 Issue
Travel Trade Magazine - Home Based Trade - October 2005
Travel Trade Magazine - Host Agency Sales Guide 2006/2007 – June 2006
Travel Trade Magazine - July 17, 2006
Travel Trade Magazine - Home Based Trade - August 2006
Travel Trade Magazine - Home Based Trade - November 2006
Travel Trade Magazine - Home Based Trade - December 2006
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| See TPI at Industry Events |
April - Home Based Agent Show & Conference - San Diego
May - Travel Trade’s Cruise-A-Thon - Vancouver
June - Vacation.Com Annual Conference - Las Vegas
September - ASTA's The Trade Show, Orlando - Come See Our Headquarters in Maitland
Nov./Dec. – Travel Trade’s Cruise-A-Thon, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
December - Luxury Travel Expo, Las Vegas
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| Affiliations & Partners |
Travel Planners International maintains membership and/or business relationships with the following travel industry partners or affiliates.
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The Airlines Reporting Corporation - is an airline-owned company serving the travel industry with financial services, data products and services, ticket distribution, and settlement in the United States, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. ARC provides ticket distribution, reporting, and settlement services for over 145 air and rail carriers and more than 20,000 ARC-accredited Travel Agency locations and Corporate Travel Departments.
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The International Airlines Travel Agent Network’s (IATAN) 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.
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The official trade organization of the cruise industry, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) also works in partnership with nearly 17,000 affiliated travel agencies throughout North America to ensure the highest caliber of cruise sales expertise and service for cruise vacationers. CLIA is a marketing and training organization composed of 19 of the major cruise lines serving North America and was formed in 1975.
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The mission of the American Society of Travel Agents and its affiliated organizations is to enhance the professionalism and profitability of members worldwide through effective representation in industry and government affairs, education and training, and by identifying and meeting the needs of the traveling public. The Society is the world's largest and most influential travel trade association with over 20,000 members in 140 countries.
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Professional Association of Travel Hosts - A professional group designed to promote its Host Agency members as a professional society adheringto a defined code of ethics and performance standards. This group is currently only open to members of the Board of Directors.
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The National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents (NACTA) is a leading travel industry national trade association representing independent contractors, outside sales agents, cruise and tour oriented agents, group oriented travel professionals and traditional ARC appointed travel agencies that provide services and support to such professionals. NACTA was established in 1986 as the original association with a mission to represent the interest of independent travel entrepreneurs. |
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The Outside Sales Support Network (OSSN) is a leading travel industry trade association representing and supporting the Home Based Travel Agency, Independent Contractor Seller of Travel and the Outside Sales Travel Agent. OSSN's mission is to provide their members with every possible tool to help their business succeed in today's new travel environment. OSSN provides members with a variety of educational programs and networking communication platforms that allow members a professional forum to help ensure the success of your travel business. |
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Amadeus, headquartered in Spain with its North American operations based in Miami, Florida, is the leading global distribution system (GDS) and technology provider serving the marketing, distribution and IT needs of the world's travel and tourism industries. Through the Amadeus GDS, travel agencies and airline offices can make bookings 95 percent of the world's scheduled airline seats. The Amadeus system is an essential sales tool for travel professionals round the world. Over 220,000 travel agency terminals connect to Amadeus.
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Galileo International was founded in 1971 as Chicago-based United Airlines introduced the Apollo®computerreservation system (CRS), for use in their own offices to automate seat reservation, booking and tracking. Five years later, United created the Apollo Travel Services (ATS) division, and the Apollo CRS was marketed to travel agencies in North America and Japan. Today, Galileo International is one of the world’s leading providers of electronic global distribution services -- connecting approximately 43,500 travel agency locations to 460 airlines, 23 car rental companies, 58,000 hotel properties, 430 tour operators and all major cruise lines throughout the world. |
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Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, connects travel buyers and sellers through the world’s largest global distribution system, providing over 50,000 travel agency locations with instant access to content from airlines, hotels, car rental companies, cruise lines and more. The Sabre® GDS features the industry’s most robust travel content. They also offer a broad range of products and services that enhance travel agency operations and their ability to serve the traveler. |
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Worldspan is a leader in travel technology services for travel suppliers, travel agencies, e-commerce sites and corporations worldwide. Utilizing some of the fastest, most flexible and efficient networks and computing technologies, Worldspan provides comprehensive electronic data services linking approximately 700 travel suppliers around the world to a global customer base. Worldspan offers industry-leading Fares and Pricing technology such as Worldspan e-Pricing®, hosting solutions and customized travel products. Worldspan enables travel suppliers, distributors and corporations to reduce costs and increase productivity with technologies like Worldspan Go.
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Travel Planners International is an elite Inner Circle member of Vacation.com. Vacation.com is more than a Web site. Vacation.com is a network of approximately 5,000+ travel agencies across North America. Vacation.com is a nationally branded, technology-driven travel agency marketing organization. Vacation.com focuses on building meaningful preferred supplier relationships to the ultimate benefit of its member agencies (TPI being an elite Inner Circle member) and their clients. With the buying power of 5,000+ travel agencies, Vacation.com provides exceptional value to consumers. Vacation.com is a subsidiary of Amadeus Global Travel Distribution and maintains its headquarters in Alexandria, VA and a Toronto office serving its member agents in Canada.
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