Trip Planner 2017-18 Trip Planner For Group Leaders | Page 3

What are you worried about?
You’re in charge of planning a group trip, and that calls for dozens of decisions about destinations,
itineraries, timing, cost, bookings, recruiting, etc.
Yikes.
Look, we don’t want to add to your anxiety, but if travel isn’t your full-time job, you’re right to be worried.
Here are a few questions trip planners ask themselves:
• How do I piece together an itinerary?
• Do I need to create marketing materials?
• How do I know if I’m getting good rates?
• How do I get my prospects to commit and make a deposit?
• Who has time for this?
• Who do I trust?
The NTA Trip Planner for Group Leaders won’t answer all your questions, but it will lead you to people who
can. The tour operators who belong to NTA—the National Tour Association—are pros. They design tours.
Lead tours. They know what works and what doesn’t.
A professional tour operator can be your partner—and your expert. He or she can answer all the questions
listed above, especially the one about trust. You can find a list of NTA-member tour companies beginning
on page 58.
This magazine is also loaded with ideas about where to go, what to do and who to contact. The
organizations featured on the following pages represent the highest level of travel industry experience and
expertise. They belong to the premier global association for packaged travel, so they know what they’re
doing, and they trust each other.
Of course you’ve got questions. And NTA members have answers. Together, you can work out the details
of a fantastic travel experience. And then? You can stop worrying.
A successful trip is easier to plan when you
partner with experienced travel professionals.
NTAonline.com
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