New Travel Program Set to Revolutionize the Industry
By Daphne Williamson
President, Exclusive Excursions Vacation Club
Founder, Chair and CEO, Hope Shelter and Wellness Foundation
Once upon a time the telephone was a novel idea embraced by only a few, as was the car, the radio and the computer. Now we don’t know how we would live without them. In fact, most of us have more than one of each and rarely leave home without at least one gadget, whether we are driving or not.
And once upon a time, when we did have to venture to far off (or not so far off) lands, our only options were to get there on foot, on horseback, or via stagecoach and stay at an inn or some tiny motel somewhere between home and our destination.
The automobile, the luxury liner, and the airplane revolutionized transportation. Similarly in the last 40 years or so the choice of accommodations became less fragmented and much more luxurious with the development of luxury hotel chains, cottage developments, all-inclusive resorts and, regrettably, the time-share sales industry. We now have almost as many choices about where to go, where to stay, and how we will get there as we do about what we will wear on any given day.
But now yet another revolution in the Canadian travel industry is occurring! Have we learned how to teleport to Mars? No. But a new travel service has arrived that will change the way we think about travel and how much of our hard earned money we are willing to spend to indulge our sense of adventure.
Not so long ago this service was only available in the USA and, but for the determination of one Canadian entrepreneur with a healthy sense of adventure and an aversion to paying more than necessary for anything, it probably would have stayed that way indefinitely.
Making this service available to Canadian travellers proved to be a bit of a daunting task at times due to regulatory and financial considerations, and the new international banking rules resulting from the tragedy of September 2001, but a few short months ago Exclusive Excursions Vacation Club hit the ground running in the GTA and has been gaining traction very quickly ever since.
Exclusive Excursions is neither a travel agency nor a timeshare resale scam. Rather, it is a service that gives travellers direct access to travel providers such as major resorts, cruise lines, car and RV rental agencies, hotels and motels, and even luxury vacation homes all over the world at wholesale prices right through their user friendly website and with the support of several hundred travel specialists who are dedicated only to subscribers to the service.
You see, usually when travel providers make transportation services or accommodations available to wholesalers it usually gets resold trough various distributions channels, each of whom charges an additional fee or percentage, before being made available to the public via a travel agency. All of those fees or commissions drive up the price that the consumer pays. Exclusive Excursions cuts out all the middle men, and all those layers of additional costs, by directly connecting the consumer to travel providers, including luxury vacation home owners from around the world, which results in lower prices than even the sell off sites can offer (because they are resellers who are charging a percentage too) .
Consumers must obtain a membership in order to access the service but the membership fee needs only to be paid once upon registration and, because the prices on travel are so much lower than what is available to the general public, is easily recoverable with what you can save on your very first vacation. In fact, it’s even entirely possible to recover the cost of the membership and your accommodations on the first vacation because the savings are so incredible.
But unlike other travel clubs, Exclusive Excursions does not cater only to certain types of travellers, offer limited travel options or last minute offerings of what other travel agencies could not sell. At any time there are literally thousands of luxury vacation homes, resorts, hotels and motels available in almost any location you can imagine, as well as cruises, cars, flights and even RVs if you feel like impersonating Robin Williams on a family road trip. And because the website is a direct portal to the world, there are a lot more options than you will ever find with any travel agency or .com. It would be hard NOT to find exactly what are looking for at an incredible price. And even if you don’t see it immediately on the site, one of the clubs travel specialists can usually find it for you.
With choice, prices and service like this it’s not hard to understand why Exclusive Excursions Vacation Club is poised to take the Canadian travel industry by storm. It’s up to you whether you want to run for cover or dance in the rain. But if you want to know more about how this incredible program can help broaden your horizons, go to their website at www.exclusiveexcursions.ca or email them at info@exclusiveexcursions.ca and leave your contact information so that a membership specialist can reach you to explain in detail what the club has to offer.
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