Join ASTA In Athens for Destination Expo This April

Pack your bags and head to Greece for the American Society of Travel Advisor’s Destination Expo this April. Here’s everything you need to know.

Travel Massive members can get a $75 discount with the partner code: ‘MASSIVE’ when you register online.

We invited Erika Richter, ASTA’s Communications Director to tell us more.

Tell us a bit more about ASTA?

The American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) is the world’s leading association of travel professionals. Our members include travel advisors and the companies whose products they sell such as tours, cruises, hotels, car rentals, etc. We provide our members valuable education in a variety of fields such as ethics courses, social media as a marketing tool, and, most importantly, destination training.

Our partnerships with International and domestic destinations give travel professionals the opportunity to expand their business through destination specialization, by providing advisors access to unique travel experiences throughout the world.

What is the Destination Expo?

ASTA provides travel advisors the cultural immersion they need to create unique, custom experiences for their clients by helping them to build industry relationships through comprehensive and unique onsite destination training.

Each year ASTA hosts a Destination Expo, after which travel professionals walk away with specialties in those things you simply can’t find online.

Check the photos from past Destination Expos in Kenya, Spain, Morocco, Dubai and Merida.

What’s Happening In Athens?

Travel advisors attending ASTA’s Destination Expo this April in Athens will learn how to sell Greece during this exclusive, on-location event.

It’s a one-of-a-kind learning experience that immerses you in the destination, ensuring that you return home ready to boost your sales.

What Activities Can Attendees Expect?

It’s not “just a conference.”

Through pre and post familiarization trips, sightseeing, and education sessions curated by local destination experts specially for travel advisors, in addition to networking opportunities and a robust trade show full of local suppliers, ADE 2018 will arm you with the insider knowledge you need to sell your clients on an experience a step above what they could get on their own.

What Will Attendees Take Away From the Experience?

Lots of great skills and knowledge, including:

Destination Expertise not just on the host city of Athens, but the entire country through the range of suppliers exhibiting and the familiarization trips you can attend

Contacts. The business-oriented tradeshow and B2B appointment session connects you to the best local and international suppliers that can’t be found at any other trade show. These relationships will provide the inside track on new tours, marketing opportunities and client prospects

First-hand travel experience. What do your clients trust more, the idea of a place or the stories about the funny host, the cat at the historic site and the pictures you take along the way?

ASTA has worked with multiple tourism partners in Greece to put together the best possible hotel rates and full programming, including a General Session at the Olympic Panathenaic Stadium, an evening event at Zapeion and engaging networking throughout.

How Long Have You Been Supporting The Industry For?

We’ve been doing this for over 85 Years!

One of the most important pillars of our mission is education.

ASTA is the leading advocate for travel advisors, the travel industry and the traveling public. Our mission is to facilitate the business of selling travel through effective representation, shared knowledge and the enhancement of professionalism.

What Makes ASTA’s Destination Expo Unique?

We provide the finest education and information resources available, so that travel professionals can provide the utmost in professional service to their clients. No other industry event gives you the strategic, on-site international destination sales training, and global networking with regional suppliers you will find at an ASTA event. ASTA sets the standard for experiential education and presages the next great travel hot spot for consumers. Offering dynamic destination-focused education is one of ASTA’s main goals when it comes to producing the Destination Expos and this year is no exception.

Interested in attending? Use promo code “MASSIVE” to reactive $75 off your full expo price if you sign up by March 15.

Join the Free Webinar

Have questions? Join us for a free webinar on Tuesday, February 20th at 2:00 PM ET. Bonus: We’re giving away one roundtrip BUSINESS CLASS airline ticket on Turkish Airlines to one lucky webinar attendee. RSVP at: http://bit.ly/2DMfBMr

See you in Athens!

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