CONNECTING WITH CUSTOMERS.
HOW TO SELL, SERVICE, AND MARKET THE TRAVEL PRODUCT
Thinking about a career in
travel? Already in the business, but hoping to polish your skills? Connecting with
Customers: How to Sell, Service, and Market the Travel Product will
show you how to achieve success in all three areas.
Through vivid examples,
interactive exercises and entertaining prose, Marc Mancini provides you with practical and
powerful strategies to satisfy the travel needs of today's consumers. You'll not only
achieve a deep understanding of what travel shares with other industries, but also how it
differs from them in fundamental ways.
Connecting with Customers
helps you understand the sales, service, and marketing needs of all sectors of the travel
industry. You'll learn how to:
- apply the six essential
steps of travel sales;
- practice the seven secrets
of great customer counseling;
- deliver highly-effective
sales presentations;
- close the sale consistently
and well;
- implement 15 standards of
service excellence;
- apply the six major steps
of the marketing cycle and create a marketing plan;
- understand how e-commerce
has affected travel marketing and sales;
- serve the needs of niche
markets, corporate travelers, groups, and more.
Marc Mancini is one of
the travel industry's best-known speakers, educators, and consultants and his client list
includes some of the most prestigious companies in the business. Marc has designed or
given seminars for virtually every travel association and for numerous tourist offices.
Over 80,000 travel professionals have benefited from these programs. He has authored or
produced 12 books, 24 videos, three CD-ROMs, two Web sites, and over two hundred articles.
His works have been syndicated by both the Los Angeles Times and Prodigy.
Currently a Professor of
Travel at West Los Angeles College, Marc has appeared on CNN, ABC's Good Morning
America, and Showtime. He was named "Educator of the Year" by the
International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators.
214 pages