About this episode

This episode discusses travel coaching, FIT travel, and the logistics of switching host agencies.

Welcome to this week's Friday 15 podcast! This week Shayna's live on location at ASTA, with Carolyn Okon from Exodus Travels. And thanks to our sponsor Outside Agents for making this episode possible. Here's the questions: I am an ICF certified Travel Coach, and when I pursued my certification I intended to building an online coaching practice to help women in major life transitions (career change, loss, divorce, etc.) find their inner bravery to face those transitions via adventure travel. As I’m coming along I’ve begun to learn I’d actually like to host my coaching via IRL experiences; group trips and retreats. My questions: ideally I am booking everything for my clients once they are on the ground, I’ve heard about FITs on the podcast, and wonder if this is what I’m trying to accomplish? If so, then what do I need to know about organizing only FIT travel in which I accompany my travelers? How do payments from the trip attendees work when I host a FIT under a host agency? How can I operate this legally and ethically, while being fair to the host agency? - Courtney When changing Host agencies, is it possible to transfer clients and vendor information without doing it…

People in this episode

Host: Shayna

Guest: Carolyn Okon

Topics covered

• travel coaching
• FIT travel
• host agencies
• planning fees
• client transfer

Keywords

• travel coaching
• FIT travel
• host agency
• planning fees
• client transfer

Sponsors

Outside Agents

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Exodus Travels

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