Crowd-Pulling Techniques to Grow Your Travel Agency

Travelling is like an appraisal check; people await and work for it. But like appraisals, with travelling too people have expectations that they work for. And you don't want them to regret expecting from you, right? For that, you need to stay updated with the technologies and techniques used by the market. After which, you can work on the techniques that suit best for your agency. Due to the rising graph of people traveling daily, there is also a rise in the number of travel agencies opening worldwide. Everyone has their ways to rise in the crowded market, what about you?

Don't worry; we got you a few techniques to start with to improve and exceed the customer count.

Specialize

Avoid providing travel packages that only rush people from here to there without guiding them with any information. Rather, you can focus on a few destinations or types of trips and specialize in those. By specializing, I mean knowing the rarest of places, food joints, or stories of that place. Tell them about the history of those places or the rituals and festivals that people celebrate there. Know every detail about that place as if it is your hometown and you have been living there for years. This will attract a quality audience who will book more packages with you. Focus on increasing your customer's satisfaction ratio with your knowledge, arrangements, and communication.

Give a Personal Touch

Being available to clients is an obvious and crucial way to increase conversions. The job of a travel agency is a responsible one. Most people planning a trip want an assurance that they can have contact with the agent personally if any questions or issues arise. You can carry a smartphone to attend calls and emails at any time and anywhere. And improving communication skills, particularly writing skills, can improve the customer satisfaction count. Replying promptly to first-time inquiries and current client’s messages builds the client's confidence in your agency.

Maintain a High Standard of Quality

Strive for quality more than quantity. The only way to set your travel agency apart from others is to optimize the service quality regularly. From accommodations to food, everything demands quality, and fulfilling those demands guarantees satisfying feedback at the end. Maintaining cleanliness and promoting hygiene should be your main focus while serving quality. Make sure you deliver more than what they are paying for, even if that means a small effort of providing a hamper in every traveler's room.

Reflect Confidence While Attracting Sales

After all, travel agents are also running a business, and part of any successful business is increasing sales. Travel agents should know how to market their services, negotiate and sell confidently. If you are knowledgeable enough and confident about the advice and services you provide, then human psychology will make others too confident in you.

Develop a Web Presence

With technologies, travelers can search and book their trips by themselves with a click of a button. You can put your upcoming packages or tour details on the internet via personal websites or personal social media accounts. You can even use social media advertising as a marketing tool. Travel agencies can allow people to book their packages through the website itself. Sending digital tickets to clients in their emails is also an option. This promotes a hassle-free booking experience. The main fear of forgetting tickets at home will completely diminish as the travelers would be having their digital tickets in their phone itself.

Adopt Travel Portal Solution

Technology can be a driving help factor to manage your travel agency tours more effectively. Travel portal solution is the best technology you can invest in. You can save all your records from queries to confirmations, payments to cancellations, everything in one system. You don't need to spend hours and invest in labor for that. You can hire a developer to execute travel portal development for your agency. You just have to explain all your requirements of the portal to the developers, and they will design it accordingly. With a portal, you can even enhance customer experience by providing them personal dashboards and notifications.

Wrapping Up

These techniques will surely work if you keep technologies handy. You can start from basics but important ones like:

• Improving your communication skills
• Installing a travel portal solution
• Providing an exclusive guide

Make sure you apply your uniqueness in every stage, from writing content to answering queries, from guiding to waving a goodbye. Yes, how you end your trip and communicate with your visitors also marks an impression on them. Provide them with a warm thank you speech or with some group photographs.

Mr. Maulik Shah is the founder & CEO of CRMJetty, a hub of innovative customer relationship solutions, provides ready to CMS integrate portal solutions for SuiteCRM, Sugar CRM, Salesforce, and Dynamics CRM including WordPress Customer Portal.