Happy Travel Advisor Appreciation Month!?

May is an awesome month where we at TravelPulse get to celebrate you, the travel advisors, who work hard to plan the best trips for your clients.?

This year, we put together a list of booking bonuses, giveaways and other fun programs celebrating and honoring the hard work you do throughout the year. Check back again to find updates throughout the month.?

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TravelPulse is offering something new for travel advisors: a social media giveaway offering free trips to travel advisors!

From a free AmaWaterways cruise to a $500 Delta Air Lines gift card, travel advisors will have the opportunity to win some amazing prizes by following TravelPulse on Instagram, liking the giveaway post, sharing with three other advisors and following the suppliers tagged in the post.?

AmaWaterways

AmaWaterways is offering a whole month of opportunities for travel advisors to enjoy better booking rewards, reduced deposits on 2025 sailings and even a giveaway with a free cruise for two as the prize! The giveaway will be a random drawing for all those who attend each Webinar Wednesday in May.?

Intrepid Travel

This month, Intrepid Travel is offering a new giveaway for travel advisors with a grand prize of a free Intrepid tour valued at $3,000! Travel advisors can read the full rules here, but it requires sharing their favorite Intrepid Travel moment with the Intrepid team.?

HX Expeditions

Now through May 14, travel advisors will enjoy an extra $300 Amazon gift card booking bonus for every new booking made for two guests and $150 for solo traveler bookings.?

Hurtigruten

Hurtigruten is celebrating the month by offering its biggest travel advisor giveaway yet: a travel package worth $12,000. All travel advisors who are part of Hurtigruten's Facebook group are entered to win the giveaway, with a grand prize of a Signature or Coastal Express trip for two, plus $300 in onboard credit and some other fun bonuses.?

Regent Seven Seas Cruises

Luxury cruise line Regent Seven Seas Cruises is offering a $300 gift card incentive for travel advisors who book a deposited trip during the month of May, along with a chance for U.S. and Canadian advisors to win up to $10,000 in cash prizes. One newly deposited booking in May gives an advisor one entry into the giveaway.?

Inside Travel Group

Inside Travel Group, the parent company of InsideJapan Tours and InsideAsia Tours, is celebrating advisors with a chance to win a free InsideJapan tour or a $25,000 "self-fam" trip to East Asia. Travel advisors are entered into the giveaway by becoming part of the Advisor Insider Program and submit at least one client booking.?

Rental Escapes

Rental Escapes is offering up to $5,000 in bonus commission for all bookings made through May for travel between May 8 through December 31, 2026, to thank travel advisors for the important work they do in planning travel for their clients.?

Perillo Tours

Third generation and family-owned Perillo Tours is thanking travel advisors for its success this past 80 years by gifting advisors an $80 gift card for every new guest reservation for a 2025 or 2026 Perillo Italy escorted tour or Perillo Custom Vacations trip to Italy booked this May.?

Meli¨¢ Hotels International

Meli¨¢ Hotels International is celebrating travel advisors this month and its 10th anniversary of the Meli¨¢ PRO program. The brand is offering an entire month of programming for Travel Advisor Appreciation Month, culminating in a Meli¨¢Rewards Points Giveaway in which ten lucky travel advisors will each receive 100,000 points.?

Delta Vacations

Delta Vacations is celebrating advisors with $250 SkyMiles Members savings on new bookings made this month for trips around the world in addition to a new giveaway. The top 31 travel advisors who book trips with Delta Vacations this May will receive a trip to Jamaica or Hawai¡¯i, complete with airfare and a hotel stay.?

Disney

Disney is launching a month-long activation for travel advisors at Walt Disney World. Those heading to Animal Kingdom can check out the new Travel Advisor Appreciation Station, where they¡¯ll meet members of the park¡¯s sales team and enjoy some refreshments. There¡¯s also a way to redeem free park tickets!

ALG Vacations

ALG Vacations is honoring advisors in three different ways this month. The first is providing 15 percent commission on ENVFs.?

The second are more ways to close sales with ALGV, including Best Price Guarantees extended for international and Hawai¡¯i travel through 2025, promo code savings up to $250, ENVFs starting at $229 roundtrip, up to $1,500 in group travel credits, $100 in Premium Air credits and up to 70 percent off hotels.?

Additionally, ALGV is offering global travel advisor giveaways, with trips to Cancun, Punta Cana, the South Pacific, Europe and beyond. The grand prize giveaway is a trip to Dubai.?

Pleasant Holidays, Journese

Pleasant Holidays and its luxury brand Journese are celebrating Travel Advisor Appreciation Month by awarding a trip to Hawai¡¯i to the top-booking travel advisors in May, along with daily TRIP Point prizes for the top-booking travel advisor for each brand.?

The grand prize is a 6-night stay in Hawai¡¯i at two resorts, plus 5,000 bonus TRIP points to the top sales producer for Pleasant Holidays and Journese.?

The second prize, awarded to the second-highest producer by revenue, is for 5,000 TRIP points.?

Daily prizes will also include 1,000 TRIP points each day in May.?

Avanti Destinations

Independent travel specialist Avanti Destinations is thanking travel advisors with a $25 gift card for each FIT land booking of $5,000 or more booked in May for travel before December 15, 2025. Advisors will receive a $500 gift card for trips booked outside of Europe.?

Avanti is also hosting three webinars during three Wednesdays in May helping travel advisors build their business.

Explore Worldwide

B Corp certified small group adventure tour operator Explore Worldwide is offering a booking contest for travel advisors this month, with every booking one entry into the contest.?

The prize? A trip of the travel advisor¡¯s choice! From Morocco to the Amalfi Coast and beyond, the winner will enjoy a free trip to experience Explore Worldwide for themselves. The winner will be announced June 13, 2025.?

Bookings must have a 10 percent deposit before the end of May to qualify for an entry.?

Additionally, the operator is still offering the ¡°Book 5, Get 1 Free¡± incentive, which provides a free trip with Explore for every five bookings, available through June 30, 2025.?

Exodus Adventure Travels

Travel advisors in the U.S. and Canada can enjoy an easy way to earn a free trip with B Corp certified tour operator Exodus Adventure Travels¡¯ ¡°Book Three, Go Free¡± program, available now through September 30, 2025.?

Advisors who book three passengers on any small group tour departing now through September 30 will earn a free spot on a trip, valued at up to $3,000. Free trips must be booked by March 31, 2026.?

Collette

Tour operator Collette is offering a whole themed appreciation month, called Travel Advisors: Turning Wanderlust into Reality. A month-long series of events and initiatives includes free co-branded brochures,? daily giveaways, insider info, just-for-advisors virtual events and an extension of the 50 percent off air promotion through the month of May.?

CIE Tours

CIE Tours is offering a special travel advisor giveaway with a grand prize of a trip for two to Spain on CIE¡¯s nine-day Best of Spain tour.?

Advisors can enter the giveaway by completing the online form on May 6, 2025. Winners will be notified on May 7, Travel Agent Day. Additionally, travel advisors who book CIE Tours for clients will be automatically entered into a $100 e-gift card drawing each day in May.?

Uniworld

Uniworld Boutique River Cruises is offering a special gift card booking bonus for every new Uniworld booking made in May and departing this year. Travel advisors will receive a $100 e-gift card for each eligible booking.

Advisors in the U.S. should use the promo code ¡°TAI2501-U¡± to receive the gift card, while Canadian advisors should use the ¡°TAI2501-C¡± code.?

Viking

Viking is offering a $100 e-gift card booking bonus to travel advisors who make new bookings throughout the month of May. Travel advisors have to be Viking Travel Advisor Academy graduates to receive the bonus, but the bonus applies to all bookings.?

Silversea

Silversea is offering a series of Travel Advisor Appreciation Month initiatives, including a sweepstakes with a chance to win one Caribbean cruise or one European cruise. Any advisors who book a trip with Silversea for their clients in May will be automatically entered. Travel advisors in the Americas will be entered for the Caribbean sailing, while those from the U.K. and Europe will be entered into the European cruise drawing.?

Villas of Distinction

Luxury villa rental company Villas of Distinction is offering up to $5,000 in bonus commission for travel advisors who book their clients during the month of May. This is in addition to standard commission and will be paid upon deposit.?

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