Top Cruises - FAM Trips - Travel for Free!

Imagine if you could travel for free?

To go to exotic vacation spots and be pampered like royalty?

Are called FAM or FAMiliarization trips, free and near free, these trips. All around the world, it happens every day. You don't have to imagine anymore!

Fam trips are a mainstay of their marketing arsenal. They are charged with promoting tourism to their countries and resorts. Etc, resort owners, travel Bureaus, fAM trips are offered to travel professionals by Tourist Boards.

What better way to showcase their wares than to invite a group of travel professionals to party and have a great time at their facilities?

For free, courtesy of the Jamaica tourist board, wI, i have a friend that spent Thanksgiving week traipsing from resort to resort being wined and dined in Jamaica!

The Queen Mary 2, most beautiful cruise ships afloat, transatlantic journey from New York to England for $499 on one of the newest, another friend is going on a 7 day.

Was also available, all inclusive, and a 7 day vacation at the exclusive Johnathan Shores Golf resort for only $55/night! All inclusive for free, recent promotions included a three day stay at the Sunset Beach resort at La Conesta. The Dominican Republic is especially keen on stimulating tourism.

4 day cruise on the Mighty Mississippi, and an all expense paid, recent listings included a 7 day/7 night stay in the Latin Quarter. They are practically giving New Orleans away, as you could imagine!

How do you qualify to be invited to travel for free?

Is the easiest to obtain and is the one we will zero in on, the IATA card. There are three main travel credentials. You must have the proper travel credentials to travel for free.

This credential will qualify you for 60-70% of the FAM trips You get to use the IATA number of your host travel agency if you are home based.

It will also qualify you for the perks showered on travel professionals on the road.

Particularly on a foreign trip, 000, that can be worth more than $10! Subject to availability, they will give you a free upgrade to business class or even to first class for the price of a coach seat. Airlines don't discount their fares.

They will upgrade you to a suite for the price of a regular room, often! Too will do their part in making you feel like royalty when you visit, hotels.

A friend of mine was given a Hummer at the same price as a Jeep, recently! Avis etc are not to be left out, hertz.

Home based travel agent, what is required to become a credentialed?

You have to find a host agency that will sign you on as an independent contractor.

Commission rates vary from 60-80% of the commissions paid to the agency. Some will not, some agencies will accept you with no experience.

Following the now antiquated client/agent model, one on one, most host agencies require their agents to actually work with the clients.

Orbitz and Travelocity, most clients now prefer the control and freedom afforded them when they use Internet based travel services such as Expedia, also. Time and expertise on the part of the agent, this requires computer skills.

Expedia-like travel site to potential clients who book their own travel, purely Internet based travel agent merely markets his own, the new.

Or even while he travels for free, works his day job, the agent makes money while he sleeps!

000, has just rolled out one for $5, of NBA fame, magic Johnson. 000, american Express sells theirs for $10. Many Internet based agencies are sold as franchises.

000 independent agents, with over 135, which is the fastest growing company in the field, or Your Travel Biz, another lesser known entry is YTB.

There are many agencies looking for independent agents - YOU can be one too.