Innovative one-day events include valuable networking, interactive training sessions and a sold-out Supplier Partner trade show  

Toronto (October 3, 2022) – TL Network Canada (TLNetwork.ca), one of the travel industry’s largest travel agency organizations, announced plans to host three complimentary in-person regional events for its member agencies this fall. Events will take place October 26 – November 10, 2022, and locations this year include Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver.

Registration is currently open for each power-packed experience where advisors will have the opportunity to interact with supplier partners, connect with peers and learn about the network’s top-notch agency-enhancing programs. Spaces are limited, though, so members are encouraged to sign up early.

“We’re gearing up to capitalize on the success of our international conference EDGE, held this past June in Denver, by helping our TL Network Canada members continue their quest to PEAK: Programmes, Education, Advisors and Knowledge – the continued theme of our Regional Conferences this year,” explained TL Network’s Vice President Christine James.

“PEAK will provide the forum for both our owner/managers and frontline agents to collaborate with each other while discussing business strategies with our preferred supplier partners and learning how to tailor them to their own business needs. Each will offer a memorable day of innovation, education and networking that has proven both popular and successful, year after year, and will help agencies get the most out of their valuable TL Network membership while having fun.”

PEAK events will take place at the following venues:

TORONTO WEST                                                      CALGARY

Wednesday, October 26, 2022                                Tuesday, November 08, 2022

Delta Hotels by Marriott Toronto Airport              Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel

655 Dixon Road                                                        1316 33 Street NE

Toronto, ON                                                               Calgary, AB

VANCOUVER 

Thursday, November 10, 2022

Sheraton Vancouver Airport Hotel

7551 Westminster Hwy

Richmond, BC

Each conference will feature over three hours of workshops or panels that will cover the technology, marketing and selling tools available to members, frontline agency training, and TL Network program updates.

Following the educational sessions, members will meet and network with more than 30 supplier partners during a one-hour interactive trade show. Guests will also be treated to a cocktail reception followed by a full-course plated dinner, sponsor presentations and a fun and interactive game show experience where several grand prizes will be drawn. All attendees will be eligible to win one of many travel prizes being offered by our outstanding supplier partners.

Travel agencies interested in learning more about the award-winning programmes and diverse offerings that TL Network Canada offers agencies in leisure and luxury travel, business travel, destination weddings and honeymoon travel – as well as active and adventure travel – are invited to visit TLNetwork.ca. Potential clients may visit CanadianTravelAgents.ca.

About TL Network (Canada)

TL Network assists millions of leisure and business travelers, annually, and is one of the largest sellers of luxury travel, cruises, river cruises and tours in the travel agency industry. TL Network represents approximately 5,700 travel agency locations in Canada and the United States. TL Network’s award-winning Agent Profiler agent locator, marketing, technology, supplier partnerships and educational programs are designed around our travel advisors’ commitment to our vacation and business travel clients in providing a progressive approach toward each unique travel experience. TL Network Canada is a wholly-owned subsidiary of US-based Travel Leaders Network, LLC, which is an Internova Travel Group company.

Currently, Travel Leaders of Tomorrow offers two programs: Independent Learner and Virtual Campus. Independent Learner is an online-only program where students can go through lessons at their own pace. Travel Leaders of Tomorrow’s most popular option, the Virtual Campus, brings together cohorts of students for instructor-led sessions, guest lectures, virtual study halls and a final business plan presentation. Since its inception, Travel Leaders of Tomorrow has had over 2,000 people finish the course and become travel advisors, both as independent consultants and employees for existing travel agencies.

Throughout the pandemic, the demand for Travel Leaders of Tomorrow remained. “The popularity of becoming a travel advisor has grown in recent years, and Covid did not affect interest in the profession,” said Jackie Friedman, CTC, CTIE, Dean of Travel Leaders of Tomorrow. Friedman is also President of Nexion Travel Group, North America’s premier host agency that is part of Internova Travel Group. “In fact, the pandemic brought to light the horrors of travel disruption, raising the value of travel advisors, who stepped in for clients and saved the day.”

Many people also learned new skills during quarantine. The travel slowdown allowed new advisors to focus on their training and go through programs like Travel Leaders of Tomorrow. “It was actually a very good time for people to start their career in travel,” continued Friedman. “Our students have always been strong, but over the last few years, new entrants to the industry have brought a tremendous amount of passion and hope. Attributes like a love of travel, a desire to be in a helping profession, and a passion for being a small business owner makes the travel advisor profession very attractive to a variety of people. We are finding that Travel Leaders of Tomorrow attracts people who might have never even considered this as a profession—yet they have all the right attributes and just need some education and support to becomes successful travel advisors.”

Travel Leaders of Tomorrow’s participants come from a wide variety of backgrounds, from recent college graduates to those pursuing an encore career after retirement. Its flexible schedule is especially popular with those currently working a day job and looking for a side gig. Approximately 50% of the people who have gone through the program are under the age of 40.

Savannah Hill, owner of The Savvy Travel Agency went through the program in 2016, and attributes much of her success to it. “As a new travel advisor, I needed guidance and education,” Hill said. “Travel Leaders of Tomorrow gave me a framework for learning the travel industry and a support group of fellow new advisors. Their faculty were also a key part of my development, teaching the curriculum that helped me understand how to run a travel agency.”

“Young people see this as a viable career, and they are some of our strongest graduates,” notes Friedman. “Because of their age, they often have a younger clientele, meaning that more and more of Millennials and Gen Z are seeing travel advisors are a very normal and expected part of booking travel.”

In celebration of Travel Leaders of Tomorrow’s upcoming 10^th anniversary, anyone who attends the New York International Show on Oct. 29 or 30, and visits the Travel Leaders of Tomorrow booth (Booth 738), is eligible to receive $100 off the first education module. To learn how to become a travel advisor, please visit www.TravelLeadersofTomorrow.com.

About Travel Leaders of Tomorrow

Started in 2013, Travel Leaders of Tomorrow, the award-winning travel advisor training program, is a joint initiative between Internova Travel Group and select travel industry partners to attract new talent into the travel agency community and ideally place them in Internova Travel Group’s wholly-owned, franchised or member based agencies. Education is offered in two learning tracks: Virtual Campus, which includes virtual study and weekly lessons from travel industry experts, and Independent Learner, which allows students to take the course at their own pace, with lessons and quizzes provided online.

About Internova Travel Group

Internova Travel Group is one of the largest travel services companies in the world with a collection of leading brands delivering high-touch, personal travel expertise to leisure and corporate clients. Internova manages leisure, business and franchise firms through a portfolio of distinctive divisions. Internova represents more than 70,000 travel advisors in over 6,000 company-owned and affiliated locations predominantly in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, with a presence in more than 80 countries.