Your Travel Advisor Career: Charting a Successful Path

Over the past 50 years, Omega World Travel’s president and CEO, Gloria Bohan, successfully evolved her local travel agency into an international travel management firm that handles business, leisure and MICE travel and books $1 billion in annual sales. Operations at Omega include multiple subsidiaries, four major walk-in offices and 30-plus onsite corporate locations.

While continuous innovation has been the impetus behind Omega’s long-term success, Gloria has also made her clients, staff and community her primary benefactors. Learn about Gloria’s unique career beginnings, her visions for the industry’s future, and how lessons learned from her experience can benefit your travel advisor career.

Travel Weekly’s commemoration of Omega’s outstanding 50-year milestone includes education highlights for travel advisors. A special feature explores how options and opportunities abound as you chart your career path as a travel advisor. Whether you are new to the industry or a seasoned professional, these points to ponder—starting out, employment opportunities, nurturing relationships and more—will help direct your passion for travel and career skills in the right direction.