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FROM THE EXECUTIVE VP Now’s the Time to Be an Agent I RECENTLY RETURNED FROM THETRADESHOW WHERE I WAS MOST GRATIFIED TO HEAR FROM YOU, OUR READERS, ABOUT HOW YOU VALUE THE CONTENT OF OUR FLAGSHIP PUBLICATION, TRAVEL AGENT MAGAZINE. What I heard confirmed what I already knew: This magazine is the top tool in the industry for delivering the information you need to sell travel better and smarter. The timing of my attendance at THETRADESHOW, which is sponsored in part by ASTA, was fortuitous, as it gave me the opportunity to review the travel agency community from a 360-degree angle. This is an industry that has matured to the point where it contains travel advisors of the most professional nature. Those veterans who have survived the changes wrought in the early days of commission cuts are now selling smarter than ever. Then there is the new blood that has entered the world of selling travel, those who have always been savvy Internet users and don’t think twice about using the web to expand their—and their clients’— knowledge about the destinations they are selling. What knowledge did I take away from THETRADESHOW? There has never been a better time to be a professional travel agent! Which is why I’m all the more excited to have recently joined the Questex Travel Group. I, and the team I am leading, have already begun working on expanding the number of solutions we provide to our travel agent readers to help them navigate their businesses on a day-to-day basis. We’ll do this by continuing exactly what we’re already doing—providing content that you already love. But we’ll also be enhancing our efforts to bring you more editorial tools. More on that soon! Web-based Solutions By now, you’ve all seen our reborn website, www.travelagentcentral.com, with its new look and capabilities, as well as our e-newsletters, which focus on specific destinations (to sign up for them, visit the site; it’s quick and easy). Well, I’m delighted to tell you that we’ll soon be providing additional web-based solutions, all designed to make your lives easier. Although I mention Travel Agent magazine as our flagship asset, we also have a series of other titles with which you’re no doubt familiar: Luxury Travel Advisor, Home-Based Travel Agent, Premier Hotels & Resorts and Premier Spas and Romance. As a group, these publications provide a comprehensive lineup to suit the needs of every type of travel agent. We’ll be stepping up our efforts to make this family an even more tightly knit one in the near future, by leveraging their combined content to create dynamic, easy-touse products for you to tap into. As I said, it’s a great time to be a travel agent and it’s a great time to be producing the tools a good travel agent needs to sell well. I’m delighted to be working with each and every one of you, and I’m looking forward to meeting more of you in the near future. Executive Vice President/Travel Gideon Dean GIDEON DEAN EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT / TRAVEL 8 | TravelAgent September 29, 2008 CONNECTING YOU For more on Gideon Dean, visit www.travelagent central. com/gideon-dean http://www.travelagentcentral.com http://www.travelagentcentral.com/gideon-dean http://www.travelagentcentral.com/gideon-dean

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Travel Agent - September 29, 2008 Online Now Contents From the Executive VP From the Editor Europe Pacific/Asia Hawaii Alaska Las Vegas Mexico Caribbean Cruises Travelmart Latin America Girlfriend Getaways Agent Profile Agenda Tours Luxury Travel Expo Taiwan's New Golden Triangle Despite Weak Economy, Americans Are Still Cruising In the Spotlight Editorial Index Advertising Index Trendwatch

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