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Community Ranking and Rewards System 🌟
Here is a full breakdown of our Community Ranking and Rewards System!💫 Community Rankings📈 With each interaction on the community page, you acquire points. The more points you have, the higher your ranking. The purpose of the ranking system is not competitive
Has anyone used uplift?
I'm curious about uplift and what you think about it. Is it beneficial?
customers
how do we get clients?
Let's Talk Guided Tour Suppliers!🧭
As BWJ Agents, you have several suppliers to choose from to book guided tours, such as Globus Family of Brands and Amstar. Use this forum to discuss them in-depth! Ask each other questions, give each other support, and share your valuable insights and
Let's Talk Arctic/Antarctic Adventures!
Use this forum to discuss traveling to the Arctic and Antarctica!🐻❄️❄️ There are plenty of guided tours and excursions available for these regions for the more daring explorers, and perhaps your clients are amongst them! Feel free to ask questions,
Blogging
Hi Team, is anyone blogging their destinations? If so what app are you doing this on? I would like to add blogging as part of my social median and would love to hear of suggestions on where to blog.
Let's Talk Agent Universe!🌐
As a BWJ Travel Agent, you have complete access to Agent Universe, powered by our travel consortium Travel Leaders Network. This is where your Agent Profiler lives, but there is so much more to Agent Universe. From special trainings to FAM Trip opportunities,
HOW TO UPVOTE?
Hi, I don't see a symbol for up or down voting. How do you upvote?
Missing Countries
I don't see the Caymans or Bermuda in the Caribbean or any other list of destinations. Both of which are popular destinations. I was going to write about them, that's how I noticed.
What's up with cruising?
My father always had sailboats so I grew up with some love of being on the sea. Being a New Yorker I'm used to walking in crowds, eating in crowds, having activities in crowds-what is up with paying to vacation in crowds? I was quite astonished to watch
Reply to a reply
I see some replies that I would like to reply to but the system doesn't allow that. How about adding replying to replies. I had asked about how to upvote when there are is no link for upvoting?
downtown travel
for downtown travel do we activate ticketing? and what information do we put as the address and company name ?
Things that aren't there anymore...
I wanted to start a thread of discussion of vacation destinations that aren't there anymore. I just read today that the Mirage Casino and Resort in Las Vegas is shutting down in July. That was the one place that my great-aunt used to go to when she was
Requests for Collaboration🤝
At BWJ Travel, we encourage you to work together! Use this forum to seek out fellow agents to collaborate with on bookings!
Let's Talk Oceania Destinations!
Use this forum to discuss traveling in Oceania, from places to visit, sights to see, eateries to indulge in, activities to enjoy, etc. The following countries and territories belong to this region: Australia 🇦🇺 Fiji 🇫🇯 Kiribati 🇰🇮 Marshall Islands
Has anybody done a virtual cruise party?
There's a list of PDFs from Carnival Cruises about having a virtual cruise party. I suppose this is supposed to be a way of marketing Carnival Cruises. Has anyone ever done a virtual cruise party? Has it been fun? Did it actually work as a marketing tool-produce
Vendor/supplier applications
Hey Jacob or Edwin, Since you have been in this business for a while, do you encounter defects in the vendor/supplier applications? If so, how do you report them? Do you have pain points(not necessarily defects) in those applications and if so, do you
BWJ Agents
Aloha, This is Debra. Are there other BWJ Agents who reside in the following countries and/or speak, write, & understand these countries language that I may be able to contact or would be interested in working with me? - Japan - South Korea - Berlin,
Debra-Drones continue here
It looks like in the other topic I can't post anymore so I continue here. A link for drone conferences-note there are pages and pages of them. https://www.unmannedsystemstechnology.com/events/
Group Traveler
How do we hand group travelers when it comes to CC authentication?
90% commission
I've almost completed the travel academy. There are several videos where you say that commission is 90% not 80%. I would guess that changed after you made those videos but I suggest that they should be corrected.
Honeymoon ideas
I was just given an opportunity to plan the honeymoon for my daughters friend. They want me to give them 3 choices. They want 1 week, great food, a couple activities, leaving out of San Diego with a budget of 4-5K. Taking any and all suggestions. Also
Trip No Shows
Hello everyone! I just landed my first client and its a work/group travel. She asked if one decides not to go last minute after everything is purchased, is there a way to recover that money and how to go about it. I'm not sure how to answer this question.
LinkedIn Marketing
Is anyone doing marketing on LinkedIn? I have heard that this is a great market place for networking and building a social database. Does anyone have any examples or maybe a page I can see to get a ideal of how to do this type of marketing. I have a personal
Let's Talk Asian Destinations!
Use this forum to discuss traveling in Asia, from places to visit, sights to see, eateries to indulge in, activities to enjoy, etc. The following countries and territories belong to this region: Afghanistan 🇦🇫 Armenia 🇦🇲 Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 Bangladesh
Let's Talk South American Destinations!
Use this forum to discuss traveling in South America, from places to visit, sights to see, eateries to indulge in, activities to enjoy, etc. The following countries belong to this region: Argentina 🇦🇷 Bolivia 🇧🇴 Brazil 🇧🇷 Chile 🇨🇱 Colombia 🇨🇴
Are you hostile towards hostels?
It's counter intuitive as a booking agent for hotels to recommend trying a hostel vs a hotel but what is given up in privacy is usually made up in comradery. Last year when I went to sign a lease for a flat in Belgrade, the owner changed his mind, leaving
Do you have social media only friends?
This part of the forum is supposed to be for social discussion not just filling out a questionnaire. I'll start out trying to be social... I find social media apps to be very anti social. They are good for avoiding having to be sociable or ever developing
Let's Mix 'n Mingle! 🤝
BWJ Travel is not just a host agency, it's a community! We encourage you all to connect and get to know one another in a more casual forum - you never know, you could make a new friend or business partner right here! Here are some icebreaker questions/prompts
Caribbean Cruise
Hello, I am looking for cruises for potential clients for 2025, February and Summer 2025 to be exact. They want a Caribbean cruise leaving bridgetown Barbados. Has anyone ever had this experience or can make suggestions on the search?
Is anyone using chatgpt?
Is anyone paying for chatgpt? I know it is free but you only get like 4-6 prompts each day. This is great for posting. You don't have to spend hours writing something out for each image or videos.
Let's Talk In-Person Marketing!
With so much focus on social media and digital marketing, we often overlook the effectiveness of face-to-face conversations in our marketing efforts. Use this forum to discuss best practices for getting yourself out there as a travel agent in the real
All inclusive vs. BNB in Quintana-Roo, Mexico
I have a client who wants to go to Quintana-Roo, Mexico, but they are stuck between an all-inclusive and a BNB. Any ideas would help. They said they want a three-bedroom on the beach for five people. I have found a few, but I am just waiting for confirmation
Travel Insurance for International Agent
Hi there! So AIG is not available for international agents and downtown travel FAYE needs the origin country of US. Any idea if we have any other travel insurance supplier or if we can buy stand alone travel insurance from any BWJ network's vendor? Must
Let's Talk Tess CRM🧑💻
Use this forum to discuss the Tess Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool! Ask questions, share tips, or report any issues regarding the CRM.
1st of many questions from the knowledge base
what am I missing-$32 commission plus a $50 additional commission comes to $82. This is from the knowledge base about commissions. he revised commission amount will display in the Adjusted Amount column.
Let's Talk Event Suppliers!🎫
As BWJ Agents, you have several suppliers to choose from to book tickets for sporting, musical, and theatrical events, such as Golden Tickets and Roadtrips. Use this forum to discuss them in-depth! Ask each other questions, give each other support, and
Golf Trips
Hey Everyone! New to the platform here, and I believe I've narrowed down my niche to golf travel. With that being said, do y'all think that is too broad? Should I focus on golf trips in a certain region? Does anyone have experience booking these kind
mobile phone in profile
If I put my phone number in my profile is that for public or BWJ use, or what is the point of having it in the profile?
Let's Talk Customer Delight🤩
In your lifetime, you've probably seen millions of commercials that say something like "Customer satisfaction guaranteed!" Well, here at BWJ Travel, customer satisfaction isn't enough. We are all about customer delight! Customer delight is a step above
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