Take the hassle out of business travel with Uniglobe Direct’s corporate travel department – Think Local

Business travel.

Those two words together often send shudders down spines in offices across the globe, including the Okanagan. Traveling for work can be a drag when you consider there are early-morning flights, all work and no fun on the agenda, and big costs if you are the one having to pay for each journey.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Corporate travel management companies offer benefits such as saving time and money, providing travel support, emergency assistance and travel insights, and enhancing travel policy compliance. Kelowna’s Uniglobe Direct offers a corporate travel department that takes the worry out of your mind, keeps money in your pocket and can also serve as your connection to travel incentive plans that will get your employees motivated to deliver.

Managing business travel can be complicated. With an array of routes and fares, confidence in securing the best fare

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Center Holidays: A Host Agency With A Family-Based Approach

Host agencies come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Some are loud and proud, with a strong focus on recruitment and delivering ever-more revenue to preferred partners. Others go about their business more quietly, content with organic member growth and encouraging success through support.

Center Holidays falls into the latter category. With about 270 agent members, it’s not small, but you won’t see an aggressive approach to recruitment.

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“My approach has always been different,” said Carlton Montaut, who co-founded a retail agency by Barbara Sasiadek in March 2003 and in 2009 established itself as a host travel agency for home based travel agents across Canada.

“We don’t do mass-recruiting. We train individuals one-on-one to ensure the service they offer is superb, and we support them in a wide variety of ways. We treat everyone as a family member.”

The family approach is fitting, as several key members of

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Killers of the Flower Moon review: Scorsese’s handsome Western is ‘too slow’

Other alternative protagonists keep drifting into view. The film is adapted from David Grann’s book, which is subtitled “The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”, and yet the main agent responsible for cracking the case, played by Jesse Plemons, isn’t introduced for two hours. Incidentally, the lawyers in the subsequent court case, played by John Lithgow and Brendan Fraser, don’t turn up for another half-hour after that. Or what about Mollie, who trusts Ernest, but is also a proud, cool-headed, perceptive woman who is determined that justice will be served? Might the film have had more purpose if it had concentrated on her? There are fascinating revelations about how the Osage people are infantilized, and how they conduct their business, but these should have accounted for a bigger chunk of the three-and-a-half hour running time.

The last half-hour in particular prompts mixed feelings because, despite some touching, sober

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Thinking of booking with a travel agent? Here’s why people are looking for online bookings in 2023

From Trailfinders to TUI, travel agents are opening high street stores to meet demand for face-to-face advice.

On decimated UK high streets, travel agents are rising like phoenixes from the flames.

To investigate why these once-forgotten institutes are now booming in popularity, I checked out the newly opened Trailfinders shop in Kent, UK.

Once a major retail hub, Tunbridge Wells town center is now lined with boarded-up shops. even before the pandemicbig brands were evacuating the mall as shoppers increasingly went online.

So how come a brick-and-mortar travel agent – seems antiquated in the age of online booking – is now opening up shop?

I spoke to marketing director Nikki Davies to find out.

Travel agents are seeing record-breaking bookings post-pandemic

Instead of putting on the brakes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Trailfinders hit the gas.

In 2020, new stores opened in Winchester and Solihull, followed by York

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Spirit Airlines asks a Puerto Rican family to show passports then denies them flight

A Puerto Rican family traveling from Los Angeles to the island of Puerto Rico was denied travel on Spirit Airlines because the parents didn’t have a US passport for their toddler.

The parents didn’t need a passport — nor did their child — because Puerto Ricans are United States citizens and Puerto Rico is not an international destination.

Spirit Airlines apologized to the parents immediately after CBS News reached out to the carrier looking for answers.

“In this specific case, an agent at LAX who is new to the position misunderstood the identification requirements,” it said in a statement. “We are providing the agent with additional coaching and reiterating proper procedures.”

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Largo Central Park | Hidden Gems in Florida

Nestled in a thriving downtown community is Largo Central Park located in Largo, Florida. This park has something for everyone. It has an expanse playground, water features, shelter rentals for special occasions, beautiful landscaping with year-round blooming flowers, walking/running trails, and large grassy fields big enough to play flag football or soccer. However, what makes this park unique is the train that runs throughout the park. The first full weekend of every month train rides for children, or children at heart, are free or by donation. The train is solely cared for and maintained by volunteers of the community. Special events are also held here throughout the year such as movie nights in the park.

Visiting Largo Central Park is great visiting any time of the year. However, at Christmastime that’s when it really comes to life! The park is totally decked out with lights, displays, a Ferris wheel, a

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Chef & The Baker | Beating Bobby Flay Mackintosh Travels™

Chef & The Baker | Beating Bobby Flay Mackintosh Travels™

This bakery beat Bobby Flay with their empanadas on the Food Network! When I found out they had a location in my hometown, I just had to try it for myself.

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This is the view from the street when I arrived. I wasn’t expecting the bakery to be in an industrial part of town. I do wish they were more visible.

As I approached even closer and parked, the bakery was much smaller outdoors and indoors than I imagined. They did seem to have customers coming in and going out so I figured the food must be good.

Chef & The Baker | Beating Bobby Flay Mackintosh Travels™

The indoors where the customers could see was small, but it looked like where all the action took place (making

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FlightClaim Appoints Patrick Doyle as New CCO

FlightClaim is pleased to announce the appointment of Patrick Doyle as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). With over two decades of experience in the travel management and corporate payments industries, Patrick brings a wealth of expertise and leadership to his new role. As CCO, Patrick will lead the commercial strategy of FlightClaim and play a vital role in the growth and success of the company.

Prior to joining FlightClaim, Patrick served as Vice President and General Manager for Canada at American Express Global Business Travel. During his tenure, he oversaw the strategic account management, traveler care, and loyalty teams in Canada. Under his leadership, American Express Global Business Travel became one of Canada’s leading travel management companies, serving over 500 client relationships across various industry verticals.

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Patrick has a proven track record of leading high-performing, customer-focused teams that consistently demonstrate values ​​to stakeholders and deliver strong results.

He

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Travel Babbo Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday Gifts for Travelers – 2022

Another year, another gift guide! In case you’re new here, I’ll start with the important stuff. We don’t buy a lot, since we would rather invest in travel and experiences. This gift guide is my way of highlighting brands I love and cool things I’ve discovered this year that other travelers could use. I always mention a couple of the better cookbooks we’ve found recently as well, since we’re major foodies and my wife’s constantly finding new cookbooks.

Some of the links below are affiliate links, meaning I make a couple of dollars if you click on them and buy something, but most of the links aren’t. No one has paid to be on this list.

Some of these things aren’t items to be wrapped in, but they’re great to keep in mind when you’re planning your next trip. Most though you can put

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KARISMA HOTELS & RESORTS CELEBRATES TRAVEL AGENTS ALL MONTH LONG

Introducing Travel Agent Advisory Boards, Seminars, Weekly Scavenger Hunts, and Booking Incentives

MIAMI, May 3, 2023 /CNW/ — May is Travel Agent Appreciation Month, and Karisma Hotels & Resorts is celebrating all month long with the introduction of a travel agent advisory board, weekly scavenger hunts with prizes, incentives for new bookings, and seminars taking place throughout the month.

In an effort to elevate the voices of the agent community, the travel agent advisory board, known as the Compass Committee, will provide valuable insight on key initiatives to help shape business decisions. This hand-selected committee, composed of agents, agency owners, and key executives, will receive first-hand looks at new product development and innovation across the portfolio and participate in quarterly online meetings and annual on-site events. Applications open on May 3rd, and a maximum of 15 people will be selected to serve on this year’s board. Full-time accredited

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