• What is the faith-based market and how big is it in relation to the travel industry?
• How lucrative is the faith-based travel market?
• How do you approach the church leader or the faith-based group leader?
• Learn how to overcome these common objections:
• I haven't been to church lately
• I am of a different denomination
• I am not comfortable with a sales call to a parish/church
• How do you network with religious organizations and churches?
• Why are certain destinations significant?
• Success stories and ideas from Travel Agents who have built their businesses around faith-based travel
• Leisure vacations, and how to use these tours to your advantage in the faith-based marketplace

• November 8, 2007- Denver
• Last day for registration was November 2, 2007.  Walk-ins will be welcome, but we cannot accept credit card payments at the door.

** As a special bonus, all participants will be entered into a drawing for a pair of international and domestic roundtrip airline tickets provided by Lufthansa and United Airlines.**

• Faith-based consumers are among the most loyal and resilient of all travelers
• With few catering to the religious market, it remains one of the most underserved yet lucrative segments of travel
• Religious groups want to travel together to provide fellowship and community as well as to enrich their lives and their faith

• Updates on the vast economic size and travel preferences of the religious market
• Networking with religious travel industry leaders, Tourism Boards from major countries that are focusing on religious sites and cities, and Globus Religious Travel personnel
• Develop a clear vision and strategy for marketing and selling faith-based vacations
• Learn how to market, promote, and get results in this growing specialty industry
• Destination training – The where's and why's of traveling to religious sites around the world
• Receive $99 and $500 bonus certificates for your first religious passenger and group bookings—a single booking will make your attendance pay for itself!

• Mike Schields, Globus Director of Group Sales & Emerging Markets
• Jackie Coronado, Holly Rosales, Globus Religious Travel Department
• Honnie Korngold, President of Christian Travel Finder and co-founder of World Religious Travel Association
• Roger Clay, Denver First Church, Speaker/Writer  
• Burt Wolf, award-winning travel journalist/writer and producer of numerous travel shows
• Various Tourist Board representatives
• Travel Agency owners, presidents, and personnel with firsthand experience in selling religious travel
• Much, much more

• Globus Religious Travel has been featured on the CBS Early Show and in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune, Travel Weekly, Fox News, and dozens of other media outlets

 Speaker Bio's

Burt Wolf Travel/TV Journalist and Personality

Since 1982, Burt Wolf has written and produced over 4,000 segments for Cable News Network (CNN), 800 segments for ABC, 125 half-hour programs for the travel division of The Discovery Channel, 26 half-hours for the Family Channel, and 250 half-hours for Public Broadcasting. He has been nominated for two CableAce Awards and a national Emmy in connection with cultural history.

Burt is presently in production with his ongoing series entitled TRAVELS & TRADITIONS. Shot entirely on location, this series travels throughout the world looking at the history, architecture, culture, customs, foods, and festivals of some of the world's most interesting locations.

He is also in production on a group of programs that explore religious sites that attract millions of visitors each year. The destinations covered in the SACRED PLACES WITH BURT WOLF series include Guadalupe, Mexico; Czestochowa, Poland; Lourdes, France; St. Patrick's, Ireland; Abbeys of Austria, Cologne and Aachen, Germany; Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Christmas in Vienna; Assisi and Siena Italy; Chimayo, New Mexico; and Vatican City & The Papacy.

Burt's relaxed and personal style makes the programs both informative and entertaining. In the United States the shows are broadcast on public television to 85 percent of the television homes. They are also translated into Russian, Polish, Mandarin, and Korean, and reach a worldwide audience in Europe, Latin America, and Asia of over 150 million people.

During his 30 years as a journalist, he has written or edited more than 60 books. For a number of years he authored a weekly column for The Washington Post.     

 

 

 

Roger Clay, Minister (ret.) Denver First Church; Speaker, Writer and Consultant
Roger began his ministry as a youth and music pastor traveling for Denver First Church each summer with a 100-voice church high school choir and band called “The TACT Singers” (like a Christian “Up With People”). As founder and director he led the group across the nation, Canada, Hawaii, and Mexico, singing and playing in schools and churches and at community events and military bases for audiences ranging from 100 to over 30,000.

Traveling by chartered buses or planes, the group was privileged to film with the “Hawaii Five-0” crew in Hawaii, represent the United States in Canada for the 200th bicentennial, sing for 20 Denver high school assemblies, do seven recording projects, and were featured weekly on “A Reason to Sing” television broadcast locally and nationally.

Roger then took on the assignment as Executive Pastor of Denver First Church (Church of the Nazarene). His oversight of 14 ministers and ministries, media production, weekly TV show producer of “ Sunday in the Rockies,” host of cruises, assistance with missions trips, and production of the Saturday Nights In Denver concert series of nationally known Christian artists has exposed him to several aspects of faith-based travel. Roger and his wife Marilyn have hosted religious group trips over the years.