Quick Tips for Group Travel Organizers

Whether you're planning a family reunion, bachelor party, wedding or spa weekend, there are common challenges in organizing group travel. Group communication and decision making are two of the biggest headaches that group travel planners face. TripHub's tools can help you streamline the group travel planning and purchasing process. While using the tools, keep these tried-and-true tips in mind:

1. Plan in advance. Whether it's deciding where to go, what to do once you arrive, or simply coordinating everyone's calendars, group travel planning always takes longer than expected. TripHub can help! By giving you trip organizing tools and handling the booking process, TripHub will save you time and money.

2. Include the group in decision making. Although you may be rounding up the troops, it's their trip, too. While it may be impossible to satisfy everyone's requests, it's important for everyone to have the opportunity to voice their travel preferences. Taking a group vote often helps facilitate decision making. TripHub's message-sending feature allows you to communicate with all or part of the group.

3. Keep it simple and make it fun. The anticipation leading up to a trip, as well as the follow-up and story telling post-trip, are a big part of the travel experience. When you need to assign tasks to the group or individuals, keep it simple so positive vibes stay with the trip from beginning to end. For example, provide a clearly defined set of options to consider or items to research. Make it easy for someone to say "Yes, I'm in!"

4. Stay organized. Details, details. In travel, it's the little things like the timing of a layover, the cost of a cab ride from the airport to the hotel, or the quality of a meal that will have a huge impact on a trip. Understand and focus on those details that matter most to you and to your group.

5. Be especially clear about budgets. Make sure everyone is comfortable with the cost of the trip up front and that everyone understands how much they owe and when. Collecting money from friends and family can be awkward. Inevitably, there will be someone who pays late (or not at all). But communicating early and often can help. TripHub's money-management tool helps simplify this issue.

If you have any tips, feel free to post a comment.

Comments

[Mark Ewing]

If you are organizing a group trip, even if it is just one trip, you may want to look into starting your own group travel organizer business. There is a lot of money that is made on group travel, and if you are going on a trip, you might as well be the one that makes the money. And, to top it off, you can also get to go on the trip for free. It is a lot easier than you would think. It is very easy in fact.

A realtor named Michelle recently just took a trip to Greece. She made over $15,000 dollars on the trip, and got to go for free. Not Bad!!!

There is this guy named Carl Meadows, who is thought of as the guru of the group travel business. He has an awesome online travel course that can teach you how to do this for a living. His course is basically a business blueprint or business plan. He takes you step by step through the process, until you have your first group trip heading out the door. His course is called Write Your Own Ticket! and it is execellent. I took the course about a year ago, and I do this full time now. I have trips planned to Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Coasta Rica, Egypt, Greece, Italy and Punta Cana. And that is just in the next 10 months! I highly recommend his course for group travel.

The webiste for this travel course is http://www.writeyourownticket.com/cmd.php?af=431750

Sincerely,
Mark.

[Researcher]

Hi, I'm trying to research this group travel product (as commented above - Write Your Own Ticket) and I am having a heck of a time finding anyone who is talking about this program. For the number of years it's been around you would think there would be more people who have SOMETHING to say about it, whether positive or negative.
If you've taken this course or know anyone who has, please contact me. Thanks:)