What is different about travel & events in the United States
Travel agencies in several states, including California, Florida, Washington and Hawaii, must hold a Seller of Travel registration, and agencies issuing air tickets need IATA or ARC accreditation on file, since airlines verify this before releasing commissions. Event and destination-wedding planners track vendor and venue deposit deadlines as a separate pipeline from client payment milestones, since missing a vendor deposit date can lose the booked date entirely.
Travel package sales sometimes carry state sales tax on the service-fee portion even when the underlying airfare or hotel does not, so invoices need to itemize those components separately. Passport and traveler data collected during booking falls under applicable state privacy laws, with extra care needed for group and corporate-travel bookings involving multiple travelers' personal information. Booking enquiries spike ahead of summer travel season and again during the November-to-December holiday travel rush.
Set up your CRM for USA travel & events teams
- Store Seller of Travel registration status for the states that require it, since several major states mandate this license.
- Track vendor and venue deposit deadlines as a separate pipeline from client payment milestones, since missed deposits lose booked dates.
- Set a summer-travel-season and November–December holiday-travel campaign push, the two sharpest enquiry spikes in the calendar.
