How to Start a Travel Service

Certification

• International Airlines Travel Agent Network
  
• The Travel Institute

Professional Organizations

• Adventure Travel Trade Association
  
• Airlines Reporting Corp. (ARC)
  
• American Association of Employees and Self-Employed Persons
  
• American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA)
  
• Association of Corporate Travel Executives
  
• Association of Retail Travel Agents
  
• Cruise & Freighter Travel Association
  
• Cruise Lines International Association
  
• International Air Transport Association
  
• International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IANTAN)
  
• International Franchise Association
  
• International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association
  
• Living Passages
  
• National Association of Commissioned Travel Agents
  
• National Association of Cruise Oriented Agencies
  
• National Business Travel Association
  
• Outside Sales Support Network
  
• Ski Tour Operators Association
  
• Travel Industry Association
  
• The Travel Institute
  
• United States Air Consolidators Association
  
• United States Tour Operators Association
  
• World Tourism Organization

Publications, Newsletters and Ezines

• Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report
  
• Business Traveler
  
• Business Travel News Online
  
• Condé Nast Traveler
  
• Cruise magazine
  
• Cruise Travel magazine
  
• Cruise Week News
  
• The Fam Connection
  
• FamFacts
  
• Home-Based Travel Agent
  
• International Travel News
  
• Luxury Travel Advisor
  
• National Geographic Traveler
  
• Packaged Travel Insider
  
• Passport magazine
  
• Porthole Cruise Magazine
  
• TInews
  
• Travel + Leisure
  
• Travel Agent magazine
  
• TravelAge West
  
• Travel Industry Indicators
  
• Travel Trade
  
• Travel Weekly newspaper
  
• Travel World New
  
• Tripso

Travel Franchises

• All About Honeymoons
  
• Carlson Wagonlit
  
• CruiseOne Inc.
  
• Cruise Planners/American Express Travel Service
  
• Global Travel Network
  
• Global Travel International
  
• SeaMaster Cruises
  
• Uniglobe Travel International

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