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Opening Lines
Antigua-Barbuda Launches New Education
Course on Travel Agent University
A
ntigua and Barbuda has announced
the launch of its new agent specialist
course on the premiere e-learning plat-
form,Travel Agent University (TAU).TAU,
with 45,000 plus active members, is the industry’s
largest online travel agent community, having
graduated more specialists than any other indus-
try education program, awarding over one million
diplomas since inception.
The new course is an asset to the travel agent
community, as graduates will see an increase in
their bookings and be eligible to participate in
various reward opportunities with the Antigua
and Barbuda Tourism Authority (ABTA).
“We are very excited to partner with Travel
Agent University, the travel agent’s preferred
e-learning platform.The TAU specialist program
is the ideal platform to showcase the many activ-
ities and special features that our destination has
to offer.Antigua and Barbuda is the perfect desti-
nation for romantic getaways including destina-
tion weddings, honeymoons, and vow renewals
as well as multi-gen groups, girls and guys
getaways and adventure seekers. By becoming
a specialist, agents can become eligible for
FAM trips and experience firsthand whyAnti-
gua and Barbuda is the best destination in the
Caribbean,” said ABTA, director of tourism,US,
Kim Jack Riley.
Kimberly Newbury, Questex Travel Group
Managing Director of e-learning and Loyalty,
said TAU is thrilled to partner with a brand
that truly sees the value of agent training
and specialization. “The Questex Travel
Group has been deeply invested in travel
agent education for more than 23 years, and
has proved time and again that agents who
specialize are seven times more likely to sell a
supplier’s products, than a non-specialist.”
Launched in 1993,Travel Agent University is
accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
The e-learning site’s resource center provides
access to valuable sales tools, webinars, vid-
eos, itineraries, and other assets designed to
help agents increase sales after they graduate.
Agents also can utilize a central dashboard
to review their course activity, track the status
of their progress and access rewards, including
gift cards, bonus commissions, familiarization
trips and monthly giveaways.
Feasibility Study
Confirms Geothermal
Potential of St. Kitts
A
feasibility study done by Teranov,
a French engineering and services
company for new and renewable
energy based in Guadeloupe, has
confirmed that there is potential in St. Kitts
to develop at least 18 to 36 megawatts of
geothermal power.
Speaking at the conclusion of a two-day
meeting of geothermal stakeholders in St.
Kitts fromMarch 21-22,Minister of Public
Infrastructure, Ian ‘Patches’ Liburd, hailed the
findings as “heartening”but that the govern-
ment has to consider the way forward.
Liburd said that the meeting was con-
vened with other stakeholder representa-
tives including Dr. Vince Henderson, Am-
bassador of Dominica to the United States;
Jacques Chouraki, President of Teranov; Dr.
Devon Gardner, Program Manager for Ener-
gy at the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)
Secretariat; Joseph Williams, Sustainable
Energy Advisor at the Caribbean Devel-
opment Bank (CDB); representatives from