Guest Author - Jill Browne

Travel Agent Competition Right Here!

If you are a Budget Travel forum reader, you may have noticed the Challenge for travel agents, which started today.

If you don't already use the forum, now would be a good time to sign up.

Travel deals change so fast, and vary so much from place to place, that the articles here on Budget Travel are aimed more at "how" to find good deals, and how to get the best value from your travel, wherever you are.

On the forum, people can post in real time, so if there's something hot you want to know about, that's a good place to ask and answer questions.

The two go hand in hand.

So, what's the Travel Agent Challenge, you may ask?

It's an opportunity for good travel agents to compete head-to-head against each other and against all the rest of us.

Every week (maybe more often) I will post the current Challenge. Everyone who wants to respond has one week to come up with their best deal. At the end of the week, we will give points to the winner, all leading up to incredible fame and glory for the people who are the best at their game.

The actual Challenges can come from me or from you.

If you are a travel agent and you want to become a travel agent competitor, just post a note to the forum or email me directly budgettravel at bellaonline dot com.

If you are not a travel agent but you think you can beat them, go ahead and post your response to the current challenge in the forum.

Anyone with a good idea for future Challenge questions, or with a good name for our contest, please post to the forum.

This week's Challenge is already posted. It asks for family accommodation in New York City. The details of the family, the things they want to do, and the dates they're considering travelling are all posted in the Budget Travel forum.

As you will have gathered, all the action for this Challenge is going to be in the Budget Travel forum. I hope you'll sign up.

Challenges can be for anyplace in the world, and anyone can enter.

Here's a hint: BellaOnline has lots of travel topics, and each of them has a forum. So…if you're looking for help with your answer to the Challenge, that might be a great place to start.

Ready, set, GO!