Global Connections, Inc.
July 5, 2010Travel Club Success Means Tens of Thousands of Happy Vacationers
Global Connections, Inc. is a lifestyle and leisure company offering a travel club, full-service travel agency and a buying service, plus resort management and development services. Innovation coupled with experience allows Global Connections’ staff of professionals to bring the freedom of flexibility in a competitive marketplace to consumers and business partners across the United States.
The company’s success in business thrives because of its exceptional employees and the relationships that Global Connections nurtures in the vacation industry. In fact, GCI is passionate about its partnerships, evidenced by the fact that Global Connections is a fully licensed and bonded travel company in good standing with:
• Better Business Bureau (BBB)
• American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA)
• Airline Reporting Corporation (ARC)
• American Resort Development Association (ARDA)
• Cruise Line International Association (CLIA)
• Cooperative Association of Resort Exchangers (C.A.R.E.)
• International Air Transport Association (IATA)
• Vacation Rental Managers Association (VRMA)
Global Connections’ full-service travel agency specializes in the management and rental of vacation condominiums and vacation homes, servicing locations with in United States as well as the international travel market. GCI is totally committed to providing customers with professional service and quality accommodations, making sure reservations as well as any special requests are attended to by their fully trained travel consultants, who know the properties and can answer any questions guests may have.
All of GCI’s vacation rentals are cleaned by their in-house cleaning staff and inspected prior to guests’ arrival. All vacation rentals are stocked with all needed linens, cookware, dining utensils, a starter kit of soap, shampoo dish and laundry detergent. What started in 1971 as a buying service called Network Direct evolved as travel-related services outpaced other products. This natural progression resulted in Global Connections and the development of one of the leading travel clubs in the industry – Global Discovery Vacations.
“The travel club is our core business,” says GCI Founder and President Tom Lyons. “Our travel club has about 150,000 members and we’ve put a lot of people on vacation all over the world.” With the word global in the name, that’s not surprising to hear. But does the company specialize in any particular regions? “We specialize in wherever our members need to go,” Lyons says. “If it’s a resort location, we’re likely to either have that inventory in existence or we’ll be able to acquire it.” “Most important is what our members want.
We look at all the trends (are our members staying closer to home because of the economy, are they driving to their destinations as opposed to flying to them, is there much less Europe demand because of the strength or weakness of the dollar, etc.) and we get our inventory mix accordingly.”
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