Trade Secrets on the road, part 1: ASTA’s Zane Kerby on American Airlines and the importance of education
Trade Secrets on the road, part 1: ASTA’s Zane Kerby on American Airlines and the importance of education
Trade Secrets on the road, part 1: ASTA’s Zane Kerby on American Airlines and the importance of education
Trade Secrets is on the road for a special, three-episode series recorded on the ground at the ASTA Travel Advisor Conference in Dallas. In this episode, part one in the series, hear ASTA CEO Zane Kerby’s take on American Airlines’ decision to change course on its NDC implementation after listening and responding to the travel agency community, as well as why ATSA is making changes to its Verified Travel Advisor (VTA) certification program. Then, hear from two advisors on their own journeys to become VTAs.
This episode is sponsored by the Globus family of brands.
Further resources
From TravelAge West:
- Travel Advisor Conference: ASTA celebrates AA win, pushes VTA certification
From Travel Weekly:
- ASTA says its advocacy factored into American’s NDC reversal
- A victory for travel advisors was cause for celebration at the ASTA conference
- ASTA stiffens certification requirements for Verified Travel Advisor program
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Welcome to Trade Secrets, a podcast from the editors of Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, where travel advisors ask -- and answer -- questions. On each podcast, our editors will ask a veteran travel advisor to join them and field listeners’ questions. Topics will range from business advice to industry trends, history and more — as long as it’s travel-related, we want to address it! Find Trade Secrets wherever you get your podcasts, or at travelweekly.com/podcasts.ABOUT YOUR HOSTS:Jamie Biesiada is a senior editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors’ 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine.Emma Weissmann is a Senior Editor of TravelAge West, a print and online magazine for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the host of the Humans of Travel podcast, where she interviews notable individuals in the travel industry about their lives — the highs and lows that make them human.Theme song:Sock Hop by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4387-sock-hopLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informationJoin Podchaser to...
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