Avoya Travel's 2024 Avoya Travel Conference took place onboard the Norwegian Joy from September 25 to October 2. The annual conference was Avoya’s largest ever, totaling over 550 attendees. The event offered opportunities for networking and collaboration, keynote speeches and workshops, and relationship-building social events, not to mention plenty of announcements regarding technology advancements and enhancements to the platform’s commission structure.
Notable announcements made at the conference:
- Earnings of independent agencies in the Avoya Travel Network are soaring again after last year’s record payouts. In 2024, the average agency will see 32 percent more commissions earned year over year while participants in the company’s new Elite 100 program saw 44 percent increase in commissions earned.
- Avoya launched its proprietary consumer booking engine for travel advisors' customers and introduced Avoya Live Bookings—online bookings made by Avoya customers that are distributed to independent advisors, along with a generous share of the commission from the already completed sale.
- Avoya’s Premier Commission Program has been launched to pay advisors up to 65 percent more commissions on Avoya Traveler bookings in 2025.
- Several updates have been made to the company’s Agent Power app suite, including further development of price tracking, increased integration of flight and hotel bookings, and "first-of-its-kind" connectivity of resort bookings with leading wholesalers.
- The Avoya Network has experienced historic growth, reaching over 2,100 advisors, and boasts an industry-leading support staff-to-advisor ratio, with over 50,000 support requests expected to be resolved by year’s end.
- Avoya hosted over 30 in-person and virtual events in 2024 and will follow up that success with another year of varied events designed to bring the Network together with Preferred Partners in 2025.
The 2024 Avoya Travel Conference was hosted by Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL), with the event’s keynote speech delivered by John Chernesky, senior vice president of North America Sales at NCL.
Networking opportunities onboard included one-on-one appointments between agencies and suppliers, cocktail parties, and themed events like Diamond Lights & City Dreams and a 1960s night in commemoration of Avoya celebrating 60 years in the travel industry. The Avoya Flowerfly Award, given to an agency that displays outstanding integrity, professionalism and character acting as an ambassador for Avoya, was presented to David and Cindy Locke, co-owners of Seize the Seas, an Independent Agency in the Avoya Network.
During the event, Avoya also announced that the 2025 Avoya Conference will be held on the MSC World America from October 11 – October 18, 2025.
To learn more, visit www.AvoyaNetwork.com
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