Welcome to the Viator Travel Agent Blog

A blog dedicated solely to travel agents. Keep up to date on industry news, updates from us as well as the freshest marketing tips and more!

 

Marketing Tips

Whether you’re an independent travel agent or part of a larger agency, odds are you’ve had to do some of your own marketing. Marketing yourself as a travel agent or advisor may require some work up-front but it will pay off in the long run. We’re doing the research, analyzing trends, and talking to consumers to help bring you the best marketing tips, from how to best leverage Facebook to identifying what your client really wants.

Building Your Own Destination Guides

Destination guides have long been a strong resource for travel agents, but the key to their effectiveness is keeping them updated and relevant. Destination guides can be the perfect solution to when a client is either looking for a specific place that you might not...

How to Target and Engage Millennials

Millennials, born between the years of 1982 and 2004, grew up in an expanding world of choices and options. They experienced the birth of the internet and have quickly become used to having all the information that they need right at their fingertips. Nearly half of...

Booking 101

New to the Viator Travel Agent Program? No worries — we got your back. We’ll go through all the essentials of how to make a booking on our platform, as well as providing tips and tricks to both new and seasoned agents to help keep clients happy while maximizing commission.

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Featured Suppliers

We love hearing directly from our suppliers and we know you do too. We’ve interviewed a few suppliers that list their products with Viator to hear more about their tours/activities as well as their history, insights, and what messages they have for travel agents.Hear more about why these suppliers love what they do.

Blue Water Safaris

We sat down with Bryan Monkhouse of Blue Water Safaris – one of our top suppliers in the Caribbean – to get to know him, his team, and their passion for providing great experiences.

Lindbergh

We sat down with Lindbergh, one of our top suppliers offering tours in Amsterdam and throughout the Netherlands to talk about their passion for tourism and some of their favorite products.Q: Why are you in this business? A: Working in tourism isn’t a job, it’s a...

News & Updates

With new updates in technology and rapidly changing consumer preferences, it seems the travel industry is hard to keep up with. We’ve brought together all the important news from the industry and paired it together with updates from us all in one place. 

Coronavirus (COVID-19) information and our cancellation policy

We know that the ongoing spread of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 may be impacting your clients’ travel plans and we’re here to help. We understand that this is a confusing time as the situation evolves every day around the world. As countries opt for temporary...

Viator’s Travel Agent Program Goes International

With over bookable products around the globe, we don’t want anything to get lost in translation. You and your clients are now able to choose from 35+ different languages when browsing and booking on our platform.Selecting your...