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IT’S ALL HEREYour partner in travel since 1930
QuestexTravelGroup.com
TRAVEL AGENTS ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER!
$83.7 Billion is pushed through the travel agency distribution channel annually.
Use of a travel agent increased 79.7% from 2015 to 2016.
64% of travelers who earn $1,000,000+ HHI annually use travel agents.
40% of all international luxury trips are booked via a travel agency.
Reach 90% of the US travel agent marketplace, including home-based agents, with the Questex Travel Group!
THE QUESTEX TRAVEL GROUP offers the most robust opportunity to reach engaged travel
agents and meeting planners via integrated solutions to drive your business forward.
IT’S ALL HERE!
50,000* SUBSCRIBERSPRINT + DIGITAL EDITION
Travel Agent Magazine
Travel Agent magazine engages its audience with top editorial content that helps them sell smarter and faster.
We’ve been around for over 80 years and have perfected the art of educating travel agents.
of readers recommended a product/destination/ property to a client
BASED ON AN AD they saw in Travel Agent magazine.
75% of readers prefer to read Travel Agent in print!
of readers share Travel Agent’s content WITH CLIENTS.
58%81%
LEISURE MARKET
LEISURE MARKET
Travel Agent Central
TravelAgentCentral.com is the most visited website in the industry, updated constantly with news and other relevant content that will immediately educate and inform its audience.
Travel Industry Exchange
Travel Industry Exchange is the #1 event for specialization that will put your brand in front of pre-qualified travel agents who are ready to book business.
This incredible event offers suppliers 12 hours of dedicated facetime including one-to-one appointments, inclusion on a panel, multiple networking receptions, and meals.
TravelAgentCentral.com
312,853 AVERAGE MONTHLY PAGE VIEWS**
155,520 AVERAGE MONTHLY UNIQUE VISITORS**
95%
EVENT SATISFACTION
FROM SUPPLIERS2017 TRAVEL INDUSTRY EXCHANGE
POST EVENT SURVEY
*2017 Verified Audit Circulation Report**Google analytics June 1, 2017 - June1, 2018
Luxury Travel Advisor
Luxury Travel Advisor inspires and informs its incredibly influential audience with specifics on destinations and hotels they won’t find anywhere else.
We’ve raised the bar on providing intel on top advisors who are making a mark in the industry.
15,000+* SUBSCRIBERSPRINT + DIGITAL EDITION
Consider Luxury Travel Advisor THE AUTHORITY on insights into the luxury travel market.
of readers share Luxury Travel Advisor’s content WITH CLIENTS.
95% 84%
LUXURY MARKET
68% of readers recommended a product/service to a client based on advertising in Luxury Travel Advisor.
LuxuryTravelAdvisor.com
76,757 AVERAGE MONTHLY PAGE VIEWS**
32,416 AVERAGE MONTHLY UNIQUE VISITORS**
97%
OF SUPPLIERS WISH TO RETURN
2017 LUXURY TRAVEL ADVISOR’S ULTRA SUMMIT POST EVENT SURVEY
LuxuryTravelAdvisor.com LuxuryTravelAdvisor.com is your real-time, luxury travel industry go-to, offering up-to-the-minute breaking news, hotel openings, mergers, new cruise itineraries, supplier offers, luxe blogs, and sales tips.
Luxury Travel Advisor’s ULTRA Summit
Luxury Travel Advisor’s ULTRA Summit is an exclusive, intimate event designed to cultivate collaboration and shape the future of the ever-expanding luxury travel market.
LUXURY MARKET
*Publisher’s Sworn Statement, February, 2018**Google analytics June 1, 2017 - June1, 2018
Global Meeting & Incentive Travel Exchange
The only event that brings the largest amount of North American MICE buyers to meet one-to-one with global suppliers in the privacy of a luxury suite.
Caribbean Meeting & Incentive Travel Exchange
The only event that brings North American MICE buyers to meet one-to-one with Caribbean suppliers in the privacy of a deluxe hotel room.
Latin America Meeting & Incentive Travel Exchange
The only event that brings global suppliers to meet one-to-one with Latin America-based buyers in the privacy of a deluxe hotel room.
The Stadium Series
The only event where Northeast regional MICE buyers who place business globally meet one-to-one with global suppliers in private, luxury stadium suites.
International Meetings Review
The MICE industry’s only global resource cultivated from the world’s leading publishers, industry events, and associations, to provide meeting planners and incentive buyers with the local information they need to organize business events anywhere in the world.
UNIQUE 1:1 meetings IN PRIVATE ROOMS.
MICE MARKET
Travel Agent University
Travel Agent University (TAU) is the industry’s premier e-learning platform, boasting the largest certified member community, and graduating more specialists per year than any other industry education program.
Plus it is the only e-learning platform designed specifically for today’s busy travel agent. Agents can choose their specialty, complete courses, and earn rewards and exclusive deals while earning accreditation.
TravelAgentUniversity.com
90,000+ ACTIVE MEMBERS AND COUNTING*
$29,134,887 IN BOOKINGS THROUGH OUR LOYALTY PROGRAM IN 2017*
E-LEARNING
of travel agents consider TAU THE BEST E-LEARNING PLATFORM.
89%AN AGENT
GRADUATES EVERY
5 MINUTES
89% of graduates anticipate selling more with a supplier as a result of becoming a specialist.
*Publisher’s Own Data
TACTICAL MARKETING
Targeted Email Blasts
Our audience is your audience with targeted email marketing to opt-in travel agents. Email marketing drives the recipient to take action on your exclusive message.
70,000 OPT-IN AGENTS WITH TARGETING AVAILABLE
The Focus Series
The Focus Series is a collection of product immersion supplements offering a surefire way to ensure exposure of your brand to engaged travel agents.
• Print and digital distribution in Travel Agent magazine and Luxury Travel Advisor
• Additional online distribution for 12 months via Travel Agent University
• Matching advertorial with your display ad
• Combined audience of 100,000 advisors
• Lead generation
Webinars
Agents sell what they know and webinars are a powerful tool to promote your product while generating qualified sales leads. Your webinar package puts you in control by delivering a client-produced webinar to our audience of verified, active sellers of travel and delivers a database of both registered agents and agents who attended the webinar. This is a very popular lead generation product.
Social Media
Engaging, shareable content that enriches the user experience and leads to conversions.
Native Advertising
Falling under the umbrella of content marketing, native advertising is a form of paid media that fits seamlessly into a user’s experience and is more shareable and engaging than traditional digital advertising due to the editorial nature. Bridging the gap between brand publishing and banner advertising, native ads serve as natural, useful, and shareable content to drive your brand forward and to build trust and engagement with travel agents.
2018
RIVER CRUISE
SELLING THEMED
ITINERARIES
World War II Sites
Food, Wine and the Arts
Christmas Markets
2018
FOR KIDS OF ALL AGES
CARIBBEAN FAMILY TRAVEL
Festivals and CelebrationsFun and Educational ActivitiesAccommodations Update
Newsletters
Directly reach thousands of travel professionals who subscribe to the dedicated newsletters for timely news, deals and information pertaining to destinations and products they actively sell.
200,164 NEWSLETTER RECIPIENTS
Programmatic Advertising = Audience Extension
This is a highly analytical and strategic opportunity that gives you the ability to reach agents even after they leave our site, or proactively targets them elsewhere, via any device, on any site, at any time, and any location in real time.
TACTICAL MARKETING
Sources: MMGY Global’s Portrait of the American Traveler 2016; American Express Spending & Saving Tracker; YouGov, The Outlook for Luxury Travelers, August 2016; IPK International, 2017 World/European Luxury Travel Report; Asta’s 2017 “How America Travels”; Forbes, March 4, 2017; 2018 Travel Agent and Luxury Travel Advisor Reader Surveys; 2017 Verified Audit Circulation Report; Publisher’s Sworn Statement February, 2018, Google Analytics, June 2018.
of travelers who have used a travel agent in the last 10 years, have a
FAVORABLE VIEW.
80%
MILLENNIALS ARE THE FASTEST GROWING
SEGMENT OF TRAVEL AGENCY USERS
CONTACT YOUR SALES REPRESENTATIVE TODAY!
QuestexTravelGroup.com
ADVERTISING
Group Sales Director Stephanie Gordon 305.375.6055 [email protected]
Northeast Kristin Bator 212.895.8242 [email protected]
Florida and Caribbean Barbara Magro 561.257.1710 [email protected]
West Coast, Asia, Australia Christopher Coon 661.206.3800 [email protected]
Midwest and Southeast Andi Washington 312.268.6787 [email protected]
Hawaii Loren Malenchek 808.283.7122 [email protected]
EMEA, India, Latin America, Mexico Viveca Caldara +34 619 906 158 [email protected]
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
Vice President, Executive Director John Henderson 212.895.8243 [email protected]
Event Director Jill Birkett 212.895.8253 [email protected]
LIVE EVENTS
MICE Samantha Nicastro 212.895.8440 [email protected]
ASIA, CANADA, CARIBBEAN, EMEA, MIDWEST/NORTHEAST/WESTERN US, SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CRUISE
MICE & Leisure Nathalia Elias 212.895.8249 [email protected]
CARIBBEAN, FLORIDA, LATIN AMERICA AND MEXICO
HABLO ESPAÑOL
Leisure Ellen Evers 646.979.4544 [email protected]
AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, NORTH AMERICA (SANS FL AND MEXICO)