The Travel Agent Next Door is currently doing its annual roadshows across Canada for its travel agents and business partners.

The roadshows are being held in Moncton, Ottawa, Burlington, London, Markham, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver.

Overall, more than 350 travel agents and business partners will attend including four suppliers who are on the road with the TTAND team: Viking River Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Sandals Resorts and Playa Resorts.

Founder Flemming Friisdahl and VP Penny Martin head up the roadshow team with local staff joining for different cities for the lunch and dinner format.

Among many topics covered, agents are seeing new online and print marketing tools, new authorization forms, and news from suppliers.

The roadshows are a great networking event for the home based agents.

The Travel Agent Next Door was created to fully support the retail travel industry by giving their agents MORE. The company specializes in the home based travel agent, supporting medium to small size agencies, and agencies that would like to start their own home based business. Its program offers member agents and agencies MORE benefits and MORE opportunities --unmatched by any other group in Canada. The company has a head office in downtown Toronto and a branch office in Vancouver, with BCCP, ACTA, TICO, CLIA and IATA designations. To contact The Travel Agent Next Door, visit www.thetravelagentnextdoor.ca or call 416 367 TAND (8263)