8 August 2024 – Jerne (https://www.jerne.com/), the leading platform connecting influential travel curators and experience providers through hosted experience opportunities, is celebrating its travel advisor members in 15 countries producing over US$1B in annual verified sales across their individual travel agencies.
“Congratulations to all advisors, each averaging over US$3M in annual sales for their travel agencies, who have achieved the ‘verified’ recognition status within Jerne,” said Jeff Sirota, Chief Commercial Officer, Jerne. “We and our experience provider partners are pleased to welcome these exceptional travel advisors to access a variety of hosted experience opportunities around the world to further support their sales efforts.”
In building out its travel advisor community, Jerne acquired The 1000, a club for the world’s most influential travel advisors, in early 2024. Since that time, the company has awarded further verified-level recognition to dozens of travel advisors meeting the US$1.5M threshold of annual production, in addition to welcoming hundreds of approved-level travel advisors who do not meet that criteria or who have chosen not to receive verification of their production. Notably, Jerne recently recognized thirty-two Liberty Travel advisors with its “The 1000” verified status as top selling travel advisors around the world (https://www.jerne.com/top-liberty-travel-consultants-named-to-the-1000-club/).
“According to our survey results of hundreds of top travel advisors, their number one priority is being able to experience products that they can share with their top clients and their number two priority is being able to spend more time building relationship with representatives of those products,” said Sirota. “We’re pleased to be able to assist them with both of those opportunities which sets in motion a cycle of growth for their business, their agency, and their suppliers.”
Using Jerne’s verification process and proprietary matching technology, verified-level travel advisors receive preferred access to event invitations and familiarization opportunities across the company’s more than 300 experience provider partners in over 60 countries – covering hotel, ocean cruise, river cruise, tour, restaurant, and spa opportunities.
Jerne’s hundreds of experience provider partners are able to use the platform to fully-manage vetting, invitations, applications, and marketing opportunities related to hosted travel advisors either at their own regional events or in-destination at the experiences themselves.
Travel advisors can learn more and apply at https://www.jerne.com/for-curators/. Experience providers can learn more by e-mailing Jeff Sirota at jeff.sirota@jerne.com.
About Jerne
Jerne is the world’s leading platform connecting hundreds of experience providers (hotels, cruise lines, tour operators, restaurants, spas, and every experiential product in between) around the world with thousands of influential travel curators (influencers, content creators, bloggers, travel advisors, and more) in over 100 countries, forming a new channel for travel marketing and sales. Jerne is also notably the Official Creator Economy Partner of Forbes Travel Guide.
For experience providers, Jerne’s end-to-end curator management platform simplifies travel curator sourcing, verification, agreement administration, content management, affiliate booking attribution, commission incentive reconciliation, earned media analytics, ROI reporting, and re-marketing via MyJerne – unlocking the full power of the travel curator distribution channel with Jerne’s proprietary inspiration engine. For travel curators, Jerne’s hundreds of experience provider partnerships open access to thousands of hosted experience opportunities with hotels, restaurants, spas, cruises, tours, and other travel and hospitality experiences that they can share with their community and earn incentives on attributable bookings.
Jerne was co-founded in 2021 by Tim Morgan and Ryan McElroy who have a combined 40 years of travel industry experience, both having worked for or served on advisory boards of many of the world’s leading travel companies. Formerly overseeing Canada & EMEA for Virtuoso, Morgan also co-founded The 1000 (acquired by Jerne), a club for the world’s most influential travel advisors. McElroy also co-founded Travel Agency Tribes, a provider of B2B2C travel marketing technologies used by thousands of travel companies and consumers every day. https://www.jerne.com/