Why Hire a Travel Director?

by Serenity J. Knutson...

Even the best meeting planner can't be in more than one place at a time. For some tasks, you need onsite help. But not just anyone will do. When it's your hard work and reputation on the line, you need a professional.

Enter the freelance travel director. Often the answer to a meeting planner's need for qualified, onsite meeting management professionals, travel directors were once hard to find. Through the International Network of Travel Directors (INTD) and their launch of INTDONLINE.ORG, planners have access to experienced travel directors who provide services for meetings, events and incentive trips around the world. Planners can search for a travel director based on location, expertise, employment and more.

"That was a key issue: having staff, finding staff, not paying a fortune to interview," says INTD's Director of Development Megan Moiles. She envisions "one network, so everyone knows each other, so everyone has one core place for resources, for work, and basic networking."

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