Ragan Stone, senior vice president of In the Know Experiences, part of the Global Travel Collection (GTC), talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report, at GTC’s ARRIVE conference in Austin, Texas, last month about how her unit fits in with the rest of the GTC luxury host agency. In the Know, which offers bespoke vacation planning, VIP event access (like sold-out concerts and fashion shows), and custom corporate entertainment worldwide, is now where many advisors go to train to become great GTC luxury travel sellers. For more information, visit www.globaltravelcollection.com.

Katie Williams, chief operating officer and co-founder of Tern, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report about how her company has become so successful in just three years, with its products and services adopted by many of the big agency consortia and host agencies. Tern is an all-in-one, cloud-based software platform built specifically for travel advisors and travel agencies that is designed to replace the patchwork of separate tools (CRMs, itinerary builders, commission trackers, email, spreadsheets) that advisors traditionally juggle. And now Tern is using AI to make it even easier for advisors to accomplish all these tasks so they can focus on selling travel. For more information, visit www.tern.travel.

Josh Stevens, senior vice president of strategy and growth for Global Travel Collection, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report at last month’s GTC ARRIVE conference in Austin, Texas. Stevens says GTC is seeing incredible growth in average daily rate across all GTC hotel bookings, with sales up nearly 10 percent in the luxury corporate, luxury leisure and entertainment segments. Demand of for luxury travel keeps going up in all segments, although Steven notes cruise sales are up nearly 20 percent for luxury ocean, river and yacht categories. For more information, visit www.globaltravelcollection.com.