Travel Conference Speaker

Matt recently spoke at the Social Buying and Flash Travel Sales session at the EyeforTravel's Travel Distribution Summit in Las Vegas, September 19-20 and the Leisure Travel World Conference and Show in Atlantic City, NJ.

What's HOT! Flash sales, private sales, group buying the new online distribution channel for hotels, resorts, b&bs, inns and small independent lodging properties.

Learn about the pros and cons of having a 50% off flash sale for your lodging property. Learn how you can sell 100-1,000 room nights in 7-days. Review of the top 10 travel sites in this new space and how they differ including Jetsetter, LivingSocial, and Groupon/Expedia Getaways. Get insights into the Micro-tripper a term coined by Matt Zito to describe the new consumer who is purchasing these travel deals. 75% are women, the purchase is purely spontaneous and the travel is short-term. Learn why this new distribution channel works great for the smaller properties and how you create packaging to strengthen the travel experience for your guests. Matt has been working in the the new flash sales, private sales, group buying travel market for the past 12-months. Matt has more insight and experience than anyone covering this new emerging travel market.

Articles Matt has published about social buying and flash sales.

http://www.eyefortravel.com/news/europe/un…o-tripper-trend
http://www.tnooz.com/2011/07/18/how-to/ana…pper-in-travel/

Call 207-669-4610 to speak with Matt about your conference, workshop or seminar. Matt's presentations are always FUN and inspirational.

The PPD Strategy- partnering, packaging and distribution, the three pillars of all successful travel businesses.

The three core foundations for any travel and tourism oriented business are travel supplier partners, packaging and distribution of your travel product. PPD stands for partnering, packaging and distribution. In this session attendees will learn how to partner with travel suppliers, how to create unique one-of-a-kind packages, how to distribute your travel product to 3rd party resellers and how to leverage each core component to build a successful travel business. Attendees will learn the ins and outs of partnering, packaging and distribution, showing firsthand examples of how these components can be developed.

Creating local partnerships to unify and grow regional and local destinations.

This presentation is for Travel Bureaus, State Tourism Offices, Chambers of Commerce and Destination Management Organizations looking for a speaker to provide business strategies that will both empower and increase sales for their local travel and tourism based businesses located in their local or regional destination. The Partnering presentation shows travel and tourism based business within a destination how to partner with one another to generate more sales for their business through the development of new products and services via partnering. This is a powerful hands-on presentation and workshop where we bring together local businesses from the conference to create new products by forming Partnerships. This session will build good will in your business community and foster new relationships for your areas businesses.

SECRETS of the online travel business, an entrepreneurial success story.

This presentation is for online travel conferences that are looking for a speaker to provide insight, advice and motivation to its attendees about how to successfully build and ultimately sell their travel business. This presentation is based on Matt's 30-page report, "Secrets of the online travel business" that has received rave reviews and has been read by hundreds of travel and tourism business owners. Matt will provide marketing strategies, business development ideas and insight covering his over 15 years, building CollegeSkiTrips.com into one of the largest youth-based travel companies in North America, now owned by the largest ski tour operator in U.S. This presentation will provide attendees with proven travel business strategies that will grow their business while providing motivational and inspiring entrepreneurial messages.

The Power of 100TM

This presentation is for conferences, workshops and seminars that are looking for a speaker to provide insight and advice to its attendees on how to successfully start an online travel business. Starting a successful online travel business is all about setting attainable short-term sales goals, identifying and then removing obstacles in your path, leveraging your personal strengths, and positioning your company to attain momentum in the early stages. Matt will share with attendees the Travel Business Profits, online travel business blueprint, a 20-step-by-step process to starting and launching an online travel business. This presentation is derived from the Online Travel Business Academy, a professional business and training program for entrepreneurs starting an online travel business.

What attendees have said.

"Although your strategies, tips and ideas are clearly focused on the travel and lodging businesses to develop and grow, several of your tips would apply and benefit any and all Maine businesses! Thank You for a wonderful presentation," Linda Elliott, President Schoodic Chamber of Commerce.

"I found your presentation to be right on the money. You offer very specific and useful ideas which our business can readily apply and you manage to cover a wide spectrum of issues very concisely. I found myself wishing that I was faster at taking notes." Jim Close, Acadia View Bed & Breakfast

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