Direct Travel\u00a0recently hosted 25 of its travel advisors from across North America on a top-producers\u2019 trip,\u00a0a nine-day trip to Europe comprising a stay at Munich\u2019s The Charles, a Rocco Forte Hotel, a day trip to Nuremberg complements of A&K, and an Ama Waterways river cruise from Nuremberg to Amsterdam on board the AmaCerto.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was our sixth GEM trip and a wonderful opportunity to network with some of our most productive and enthusiastic agents,\u201d says Gerard Bellino, EVP Leisure at Direct Travel. \u201cNot only did the advisors experience some of our wonderful luxury travel product, but also spent time networking with some of our senior management and suppliers.\u201d In all, 42 participated in the trip including 24 winners, four Direct Travel executives, the Direct Travel leisure leadership team and nine supplier partners.<\/p>\n
Direct Travel\u2019s GEM Recognition program celebrates remarkable achievements of top-performing advisors who go above and beyond, not only in driving sales but also in delivering unmatched service to their clients and supporting Direct\u2019s strategic partners.<\/p>\n
Advisors earned the exclusive GEM trip by supporting strategic partners in seven categories recognizing North American and regional winners. \u201cI think it\u2019s safe to say we started the trip as colleagues and truly ended it as friends,\u201d says Tami Brown, Direct\u2019s VP of Human Resources.\u00a0 Other Direct executives accompanying the group were Darryl Hoover, Chief Technology Officer, Helen Leon, President, USA West region and Bellino.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis trip was truly amazing, probably one of the best trips I have been on in 20 years in the travel industry! The Direct Travel team is fantastic and I am lucky to be part of this organization,\u201d says Shanon Roberts, Leisure Branch Supervisor in Vernon, B.C.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Direct Travel\u00a0recently hosted 25 of its travel advisors from across North America on a top-producers\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,6,2,12,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advisors","category-agencies","category-featured","category-hosting","category-latest","category-top-stories"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-scaled.jpg",2560,1707,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-1536x1024.jpg",1536,1024,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-2048x1366.jpg",2048,1366,true],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-720x380.jpg",720,380,true],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/GEMTrip2023-50x50.jpg",50,50,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Stephen Smith"]},"category_info":"Advisors<\/a> Agencies<\/a> featured<\/a> Hosting<\/a> Latest<\/a> TOP STORIES<\/a>","tag_info":"TOP STORIES","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dt.com\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}