At Home Travel Business Resources

There are tons of sites of available to travel agents. Here are some that I use are that are credible in our industry.

At Home Cruise Travel Business Sites

CLIA - The official trade organization of the cruise industry of North America. It offers support and training for the travel agent community and In Home Travel Agents.

CruiseReviews.com - Cruise and Port reviews, cruise discussion boards that are interest to cruisers. Great place for Home Based Travel Agents to learn about each cruise line from a third party.

Travel Industry Publications

TravelTrade.com - Travel Trade reports on the latest industry news in print and online. Its newspaper is weekly, and it also publishes these special supplements: Cruise Trade, Home Based Trade as well as the Annual Cruise Directory and Co-Op Host Guide.

TravelWeekly.com - Travel Weekly and TravelWeekly.com deliver all the late-breaking news, analysis and research that travel professionals need to succeed.

TravelAgentMag.com - Here, travel agents can access breaking news on the travel industry on a daily basis. From Travel Agent Central, agents can also log onto the Official Travel Industry Directory (OTID), the most comprehensive directory in the industry, and Travel Agent University, a unique Internet classroom for travel agents

NACTA.com - is the travel industry's first and leading association for independent travel agents, cruise oriented agents, home based travel agents and outside sales travel agents.

ASTAnet.com - ASTA, short for the American Society of Travel Agents, is the world's largest association of travel professionals. Our 20,000-plus members include travel agents and the companies whose products they sell such as tours, cruises, hotels, car rentals, etc. This is a great resource for your In Home Travel Agency Business

Home Based Travel Agency Business Sites

Home Based Travel Agent - Organizing information into a For the Traveler/For the Agent format, Home-Based Travel Agent Magazine gives this professional audience the knowledge they need to sell their client base on different destinations, cruises, tour packages, etc. as well as the information they need themselves to grow their businesses, choose effective technology and work as efficiently as possible.

Home Based Travel Agent Expo - These agents are small business owners with significant annual bookings who are hungry to gather information, to network, to forge new relationships with suppliers and strengthen existing relationships, to better serve their customer and to run a more efficient business.