This full service travel agency in Gig Harbor has a lot to offer to frequent vacationers. They cover the world, and their biggest specialties are the places that Northwesterners seem to like to visit the most: Hawaii and Mexico, Latin America and the South Pacific, and Europe. The staff has many visits to these parts of the globe and feels intimately knowledgeable about what is offered there.
This company is devoted to vacations and personal travel rather than business travel so they can be focused completely on what their clients want to see and do with their precious time off and away.
Marti Anderson, owner of the agency, has been in the travel business for over 35 years and has owned Anderson Travel since 1993. Her staff are all well-experienced, well-traveled, and well-educated with numerous certifications within the travel industry.
Honeymoons, family vacations, destination weddings and adventure travel are all things they have a lot of experience with and these match well with what most people are looking for!
Anderson Travel also has something most other companies don’t: for the person who feels that they have an interest in and might be successful within the wide scope of the travel world, they are offering a course called “Take Off In Travel” which will teach and basics and more of being a travel professional.
This course offers 28 hours of classroom instruction, materials, hands-on experience, and the opportunity to meet with vendors and industry leaders.
Many people thought travel agents were “dead” with the presence of the web and easy access to the internet, but as travelers have realized that a pretty website doesn’t necessarily mean a high quality experience, or tell the whole story, they have come back to using agents. Travel and it’s components (airline tickets, hotels, tours, rental cars, rail tickets etc) are a huge and complex business and travel professionals help their clients to navigate through the truths and falsehoods of this world, the true destination being a perfect vacation.
If you are interested in working in any facet of this industry, are looking for a career change, or even just knowing the “ins and outs” this course might be the perfect solution to you. The classes are held monthly in Gig Harbor.
To receive excellent assistance in travel planning, or for more information about the Travel Academy, contact Anderson Travel at
(253) 853-8687
(253) 853-8687