Our Luxury Travel Network hosts an annual educational and networking conference for our members each fall, and invites our members to attend several other important industry events held throughout the year.

Annual Luxury Travel Network Conference

Our annual Luxury Travel Network conference is our premier educational and networking event of the year for our network and offers our member agents the opportunity to learn, network and socialize with luxury travel agents, industry experts, preferred vendors and our management and support team.

The fall conference is typically three or four days long and is often held on a short luxury cruise or at a high-end resort. We typically provide training on a variety of topics including our internal software tools, sales and marketing tips and techniques, exclusive training from Virtuoso, and in depth product and marketing information from our preferred luxury suppliers in attendance.

In addition to the exclusive training opportunities, the annual conference presents ample opportunities for networking and relationship building with other independent contractors to share ideas and resources with one another. All of our members are highly encouraged to attend this important event to build their careers by staying on top of our network offerings and benefits and the luxury travel industry.

 Read a Recap of the 2011 Luxury Travel Network Conference

Travel Mart

Each summer, our Luxury Travel Network participates in Virtuoso’s exclusive annual travel conference called Travel Mart and we encourage our independent contractors to join us. Virtuoso members in attendance are invited to meet with close to 1,000 luxury travel suppliers located around the world to learn more about their properties, cruise lines and tours. Travel Mart focuses on their famous "power of one-to-one” education by offering agents the opportunity to meet with suppliers individually for four minutes at a time. Additionally, Virtuoso offers their popular VAST globetrotting training for agents to participate in during the Travel Mart program that provides in-depth training on special travel industry niches such as African safaris, river cruising, spa, and more.

During the conference, our Luxury Travel Management team hosts a special cocktail party for all of our attending members and can also help coordinate meetings for you with top industry supplier representatives. Our members feel this conference is very educational in learning about the unique Virtuoso properties and travel offerings their luxury clients are looking for. As a special benefit, we typically subsidize part of the cost of Travel Mart for our top producing Luxury Travel Network members.

Luxury Travel Expo

Luxury Travel Network exhibits and maintains a presence at the Luxury Travel Expo each December and encourages our members to join us. Produced by Travel + Hospitality Group (publishers of Luxury Travel Advisor and Travel Agent magazines), the Luxury Travel Expo is the industry’s largest gathering of luxury travel professionals. The show’s successful formula consists of an unrivaled education program and ample exhibit hall hours where luxury suppliers and travel advisors can network.

The Luxury Travel Expo was held December 6-8, 2011 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

Sharon Concepcion of the Luxury Travel Network and several Luxury Travel Network independent contractors recently attended the Southeast Virtuoso Regional meeting held at the Four Seasons hotel in Miami, Florida. Virtuoso agency managers and travel advisors in attendance heard about several new Virtuoso programs introduced for 2012 and attended informational workshops on Composer (Virtuoso’s intranet), and social media. As for new programs, Virtuoso unveiled new virtual tradeshows that allow advisors to invite clients to participate in the process of planning their trip, as well as new destination sales campaigns that helps them to learn more about the destination they are selling.