TL Network Canada and The Travel Agent Next Door joined forces in 2021. Both parties say the alliance is driving success for their members.

“We are pleased with the partnership and mutual success to date between TTAND and the TL Network family,” said Christine James, VP Canada at TL Network.

Flemming Friisdahl, TTAND founder & CEO, agrees that success has been mutual.

“We’ve been focused on the development of products and services that add value to the traveller while increasing earning opportunities to the advisor,” he said.

“Over the past 15 months, the program incentives that were a deciding factor in our move to TL Network include the exclusive CruisePRO booking engine, the extensive Hotel Program, and valuable marketing materials, which have all benefitted our 900+ partner agents. These program incentives continue to feel right for us.”

Friisdahl itemized the key areas that have impressed him so far with TL Network.

“The first is their senior team’s willingness to listen to what we need and then action it quickly. This includes making sure the magazines are compliant with TICO requirements for us to send out to our clients.

“Additionally, working with the technology team to make sure we develop new cruise booking tools was a big priority for TTAND. Lastly, TL Network has given our agents the support they need from road shows to generalized reinforcement. I believe this partnership will only continue to grow stronger and TL Network will continue to increase their presence in Canada.”

Friisdahl says the TL Network’s lead generation program is helping to match advisors with travellers.

“There has been a lot of thought put into Agent Profiler and we have several of our agents that are now receiving leads, seeing well over 20 bookings coming from these leads and that is only with approximately 15+ agent partners signed up so far over a short period of time.”

Karen Gill, a TTAND member and owner of Plan A Vacation/Plan A Destination Wedding in St. Catherines, ON also had praise for Agent Profiler.

“Being a part of TL Network and their industry-leading lead generation tool Agent Profiler has not only elevated but validated my experience and expertise providing me with quality leads within my specialty travel niches. This is an incredible asset to help boost my overall marketing plan and business,” she said.

Lori Smith, Owner of TTAND member Wanderlori Travel in Arcola, SK agrees.

"Taking the time to set up my Agent Profiler with TL Network was seamless and very easy to do. Since then, I’ve received over two dozen leads resulting in two destination wedding bookings and several leisure travel bookings as well.”

“Our team considers all aspects of how advisors can increase their leads and make bookings easy,” said Stephen McGillivray, Chief Marketing Officer, Travel Leaders Group.

“It is gratifying to hear that such a successful, established agency like TTAND has found our tools useful. We can’t wait for future mutual success.”