Travel Factory Blog

This will be our last entry in 2013; it’s been a full first year of radio show programs that morphed into a blog on our new web site, and it has been an exciting and interesting experiment.  Of course the behind-the-scenes person making it happen is my webmaster, Peter Beare from Nashville, TN.  Being technologically challenged as I am, he made the process a simple task; I just have to come up with something to say each week. . . and that is pretty easy to do in this business.  Something is always happening in the travel business!!!

Would You Like To Know About The Travel Factory?

We will occasionally get folks who don’t have a lot of history in Abilene ask us about how long we’ve been in business and if our agents are experienced enough to be giving out travel advice.  

Up until last year about this time, I always had an answer that usually took too long, but since last October, we have that answer summarized on our website; www.thetravelfactoryabilene.com.

River Cruising... Its Not For Everyone!!!

This past week, the American Society of Travel Agents had their annual conference in Miami and one of the sessions was a panel discussion among some of the cruising executives.  One of the men on the panel was the Chairman of Viking River Cruises, Torstein Hagen.  He was very specific about who would have a good time on his cruise line.

Not everyone reads “Women’s Day” magazine, thank goodness, but one of the contributors to that publication really raised a verbal firestorm among travel agents.  Anne Roderique-Jones article was titled “Ten Things Travel Agents Won’t Tell You”, and after some serious conversations it was changed to “Nine Things. . .”.  Still after that, there have been over 1500 comments posted to that article and the overwhelming majority of the comments were written by travel agents, travel agents organizations, or clients correcting some of the misconceptions in the article.

Our task on this show is to give you some travel tips and information on the current travel scene, but probably not often enough I don’t give out the very best tip in my quiver, which is if you want to travel, contact an experienced travel agent.