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iZento continues to keep travel agents ahead of the curve by introducing stunning new trip journal designs and by adding helpful new agent features to these customizable travel itinerary booklets. iZento is the only itinerary building service in the marketplace today that provides time-saving tools designed specifically to help travel agents build high-quality trip journals to instantly “wow” their clients. The new trip journal features include high-end cover designs accessible only to iZento Professionals, access to content on 300+ destinations worldwide, private activities functionality and more.
“iZento’s main purpose is to keep travel agents competitive by enabling them to offer high-end, fully customized trip journals to their clients,” says Judy Roberts, co-founder of iZento. “We strive to continue making these journals the best that they can be, by combining innovative trip building with attractive journal designs, so that agents are able to offer clients much more than just a standard travel itinerary. One of the most exciting features of our new journals is access to our extensive Destination Guide, a database of content on 300+ key destinations and 200,000 activities around the world. Only very large agencies and consortia have the resources to license such an extensive content database; but with an iZento subscription, even the smallest home-based organization can utilize it for just $15 per month.”
Travel agents using the iZento Professional service will now have access to new high-end cover designs with a greater variety of color options, graphics and personal branding capabilities on the front, back and inside pages. Additional agent exclusive features include an introduction page where agents can write a personalized message to the client or group and an exclusive activity tab that will allow the easy inclusion of Private Activities for clients, allowing agents to further customize the trip journal. The journals can be ordered professionally bound from iZento’s publisher or downloaded in a format that can be printed locally.
The following are a sample of the unique travel planning features that iZento currently offers, to help make travel specialists more productive and successful in building these unique client deliverables and marketing their brand:
– Agency-level Branding and Control – All trip plans, at-a-glance itineraries and professionally bound journals can be permanently branded with the agency name, logo and marketing messages – providing a personalized touch for their clients as well as high quality collateral pieces that enhance their professional appeal. An administrative dashboard allows the agency to control consultant accounts as well as access shared activities and agency branded templates.
– Itinerary Matrix – Allows agents to view comprehensive trip data at a glance, and print as an impressive client leave-behind or a proposal for prospective customers.
– Trip Templates – Enables agents to use trip outlines that can be re-used and personalized with agency collateral to save time. Specialists can also publish trip templates within their agency to share knowledge and provide expert shortcuts for all consultants.
– Customer Relationship Management – iZento’s agent portal makes it easy to upload and download customer lists, and to input client preferences, track their trips, journal orders, and more.
– Collaborative Editing – Beyond any similar type of service, iZento enables a travel agent to collaborate with their clients in building their trips online, to combine state-of-the-art internet content with the specialized “off-web” knowledge and insight of travel specialists.
– Capture and Communicate Personal Insight – Travel specialists can add private activities and input information about a destination within the trip itinerary, to showcase their unique knowledge.
– Return Ticket Link –Travel agencies can bring prospects and clients back to their website with included direct link-back functionality. When a client is referred to www iZento.com from an agency site, the agency logo and link are displayed on every page to enable the client to return to the agency site at any time.
– Facebook Connect– iZento allows travel specialists to post and share interactive, agency branded trip journals through Facebook personal accounts, groups or business pages to interact and collaborate with customers via this popular social media outlet.
TravelDailyNews Asia-Pacific editorial team has an experience of over 35 years in B2B travel journalism as well as in tourism & hospitality marketing and communications.
