Poll: Should travel agents undergo mandatory exams?

“The biggest problem we have right now is that we’ve opened the floodgates to non-professionals,” Amanda Teale, founder of luxury lifestyle brand Minerva Private Travel & Lifestyle Management, told TTG Luxury.

Her comments got us – and many established agents – thinking. Let’s be honest, Teale’s point is not a new one, but with the number of homeworkers growing rapidly, have we perhaps now reached a crossroads? 

She argued the current travel landscape means technically anyone can choose to identify as a travel agent/ advisor, which she believes is "diluting the industry".

TTG wants to know if you agree, and if so, what the sector can do about it.