ASTA Invites You To Celebrate Global Travel Advisor Day on May 4th

The American Culture of Vacation Advisors (ASTA) is revving up for this year’s ‘Global Journey Advisor Day’ celebration—coming up on Wednesday, May 4—and encouraging customers to do the identical by collaborating in some grassroots campaigns.

On that day, the world’s primary advocacy firm for journey advisors will be holding a digital celebration celebration through Fb Reside (also broadcast on YouTube and LinkedIn), entire with interesting speakers, prize giveaways and a lot more.

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The occasion, sponsored by Sandals Resorts, will consider area stay and in two parts: from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET and 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET.

Vacation Advisors are invited to start spreading the phrase about the special day designated in honor of their chosen occupation and support heighten recognition about the crucial function they perform in the industry and all the positives they provide their clientele.

To that finish, ASTA has created a amazing toolkit that advisors can use to boost consciousness forward of the celebration, with downloadable, customizable logos and pre-sized social media pictures (for Facebook and Instagram). Contributors really should be guaranteed to use the hashtags #TravelAdvisorDay and #ASTAAdvisors to continue to keep ASTA looped into the on the internet discussion.

The association also presents easy-to-use templates for sending “letters to the editor” of shopper media shops, informing them of the amazing operate vacation advisors do and conveying why now is the time for vacationers to enlist the help of an qualified advisor. Furthermore, they can entry the grassroots advocacy portal to pen letters to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and continue to keep the interests of the travel advisor local community at the forefront of Congress’ views.

For a probability to earn one of the numerous prizes equipped by ASTA’s partners for the World wide Travel Advisor Working day celebration—which consist of AmaWaterways cruises, American Airways Business Class Tickets to anywhere and verandas on a selection of Celeb Cruises’ seven-night Caribbean sailings—members can donate to assistance Ukrainian refugees, then e-mail their receipt to [email protected] right before April 30.

The earlier two a long time have unquestionably hit the vacation advisor group with many ups and downs, courtesy of COVID-19. But, ultimately, the a lot of logistical difficulties of touring amid the pandemic—border closures, entry demands and in-location restrictions topic to alter at a moment’s notice—and the resulting confusion among shoppers have only served to enhance the benefits of enlisting a professional vacation advisor for excursion-arranging uses and real-time aid.

For a lot more information and facts, go to asta.org/TravelAdvisorDay.