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TTC ROLLS OUT FIRST OF FOUR FAM TRIPS FOR TRAVEL ADVISORS

Swiss flag on the top of Mannlichen (Jungfrau region, Bern, Switzerland)

Three TTC Tour Brands—Trafalgar, Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold—are teaming with Tourism Switzerland on a giant international fam trip, the first of four TTC expects to offer this year.

Top-selling travel advisors are invited to apply for the Switzerland Fam, a seven-day, all-expense-paid trip that includes a hike through the Swiss Alps and a ride on the glacier express from St. Moritz to Zermatt, and highlights sustainable travel efforts through TTC’s MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences.

Three more fams are in the works for this spring, Melissa DaSilva, president of TTC Tour Brands North America, told TRO, “including a global fam to the American South, a fam exclusively for independent travel consultants to Italy and a fam specifically for Insight Vacations to Croatia. We’re very excited to be offering so many opportunities to our advisors to not only show our appreciation but also to help them learn more about our products and better sell them to their customers.”

Ten applicants from the United States and four from Canada, along with 21 from other countries,  will be invited on the seven-day Switzerland trip—those who “have truly earned their spot” based on sales, DaSilva said.

The trip will depart July 22, with stops in Lucerne, St. Moritz, Zermatt and Geneva, and include programs from the four brands, including an Insight Vacations VIP dining experience at Drehrestaurant Rondorama.

The MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences include visits to the Swiss Transportation Museum and the Alpinum Culinarium to learn about rare fruits, a dinner at sustainable restaurant Schäfer Stube, and a lunch and wine tasting at Lake Geneva where travel advisors will learn about Switzerland’s wine ecosystem.

Accommodations will reflect those experienced by guests of each brand, including the Astoria Hotel in Lucerne, the Grand Hotel des Bains Kempinski in St. Moritz, and the Mirabeau Hotel.

DaSilva noted that the goal is to showcase both the four brands and why sustainable travel is so important to them in hopes “the advisors on this trip will learn what makes this an important aspect of the travel experience with TTC Tour Brands.”

TTC Tour Brands CEO Gavin Tollman and representatives from Tourism Switzerland will join the group for a final dinner.

TTC Tour Brands last year hosted its first-ever fam trip to Jordan. It, too, was meant “to showcase MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experiences and educate advisors on how to sell these experiences to their customers,” DaSilva said.

Advisors from around the world interested in applying for the Switzerland trip should go to https://agents.ttc.com/en-us/information/fams/swisstainable

TTC Tour Brands is part of The Travel Corporation (TTC), a 100-year-old international group of 40 brands, including vacation packages, boutique river cruising, luxury hotels , and safaris.

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