The No BS Travel Advisor®️

Marcie Muensterman

In this episode of the No BS Travel Advisor Podcast, Marcie Muensterman dives deep into why desperation is the #1 thing holding travel advisors back from closing high-value clients and scaling their business.

Marcie shares key legal insights from The Legal Paige, detailing why every travel advisor needs proper website terms, client agreements, and niche addendums, regardless of what host agency they use. She also opens up about a major personal milestone: her husband Erich leaving corporate America to step in as a full-time stay-at-home dad and support the backend numbers for her business.

Then, Marcie drops a massive truth bomb on the travel industry: less than 23% of travelers prioritize budget above all else. The remaining 77% are searching for convenience, expertise, access, and peace of mind. Learn how to ditch the "Discount Debbie" energy, move away from quote-chasing in Facebook DMs, transition to an appointment-only consultation model, and confidently qualify clients so you can build a sustainable, profitable travel business.

Chapter Timestamps: 

00:00 Legal Foundations for Travel Advisors

04:37 Family Dynamics and Career Changes

08:06 Overcoming Desperation in Sales

16:43 Understanding Client Needs Beyond Budget

31:11 Qualifying Clients with Authority and Respect

33:14 The Importance of Client Communication

35:38 Setting Realistic Expectations for Vacations

38:33 Building Trust Through Expertise

40:52 Loosening the Grip on Sales

45:06 Following Up Without Desperation

47:03 Communicating Value Over Price

50:17 Embracing Authenticity in Sales

KEYWORDS

Maximize Your Escorted Groups Business
Hosted, escorted, and group travel sales and marketing specifically for travel advisors:
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Maximize Your Travel Agent Business
Join more than 16,000 travel advisors talking sales, marketing, profitability, business management, and building a sustainable travel business:
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Marcie Muensterman

This week on the No BS Travel Advisor Podcast, Marcie Muensterman is back with Hosted & Escorted Groups Part 2, and this time she is digging into two of the biggest questions travel advisors have about creating their own group trips:

How the hell do you find the people who are actually going to come? And how do you market a hosted group enough to fill it?

Because blocking group space is the easy part.

Selling it is an entirely different story.

In this episode, Marcie talks about how to market a hosted group trip, build a group travel audience, create demand before you even have all of the trip details, determine whether your current network is large enough to support a group, and attract travelers who are actually aligned with YOU.

And yes, you're probably going to have to talk about your trip way more than you want to.

Marcie explains why you can't start marketing a hosted trip when the booking page opens. Your audience needs time to hear about the idea, imagine themselves there, watch your excitement build, ask questions, join the waitlist, and eventually decide that missing the trip would suck more than spending the money to go.

You'll also hear Marcie's take on:

And before getting into group marketing, Marcie shares a lesson from Jude's softball tournament about losing, resilience, competition, integrity, and learning how to get the fuck back up.

Because hosted groups aren't for advisors who expect everything to work the first time.

Neither is entrepreneurship.

Maximize Your Escorted Groups Business
Hosted, escorted, and group travel sales and marketing specifically for travel advisors:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximizeyourescortedgroupsbusiness

Maximize Your Travel Agent Business
Join more than 16,000 travel advisors talking sales, marketing, profitability, business management, and building a sustainable travel business:
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Visit:
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Keep an eye out for enrollment information for Lead the Manifest®, Marcie's hosted and escorted group travel framework for travel advisors who want a repeatable process for creating, marketing, filling, and operating their own travel-with-me group experiences.

00:00 – Hosted & Escorted Groups Part 2 + What's New
02:22 – What Softball Taught Me About Losing, Grit & Business
06:43 – You're Not Knocked Out Unless You Choose to Stay Down
10:27 – Get 1% Better Instead of Chasing Perfection
13:09 – Hosted Groups: Who Are You Selling This Trip To?
15:44 – Start Marketing Your Group Before You Have the Details
17:44 – You Have to Market Your Trip WAY More Than You Want To
19:42 – Start Smaller If Your Audience Isn't Ready for a Huge Group
23:07 – Interest Is Not the Same Thing as Someone Actually Booking
26:34 – How Do You Make Sure the Right People Join Your Group?
30:51 – Have One-on-One Conversations About the REAL Hesitation
31:36 – Your Marketing Should Also Repel the Wrong Traveler
34:29 – Intentional Invitations: Ask the People You Actually Want to Travel With
36:29 – Know the Aligned Traveler for Every Group You Sell
38:29 – How to Grow Beyond Friends and Family
41:23 – If Nobody Books, Go Anyway and Create the FOMO
42:43 – Lead the Manifest® + Final Advice for Hosted Group Success

Marcie answers these questions during this conversation:

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If you've been dreaming about running your own hosted group travel trips but you're scared shitless about the contracts, the insurance, and whether you're one bad clause away from a nightmare, this is the No BS Travel Advisor Podcast episode for you.

This is Part 1 of a two-part deep dive answering 35+ real questions from travel advisors inside my NEW free spin-off Facebook group, Maximize Your Escorted/Hosted Travel Advisor Group Biz. We're talking FIT group travel, seller of travel laws, E&O insurance for travel advisors, tour operator licensing thresholds, hiring professionals, DMC contract negotiation, group deposit and attrition clauses, and how to build a pricing-for-profit strategy that nets you $1,000+ per person, all without filling 40 cabins on a cruise.

I'm not a lawyer, an accountant, or an insurance agent. I'm a travel advisor with 20+ years of sales, marketing, and group hosting experience, and I'm working alongside you in my group, as well as, 65 of you inside my newest LIVE course, Lead the Manifest, my signature escorted/hosted group travel training. The next LIVE group coaching is Spring 2027.

In this episode:

Part 2 drops next week, where we get into choosing destinations and more of the fun stuff.

TIMING & CHAPTER LAYOUT

00:00 Welcome back + Gaylynn's question that sparked this episode
01:15 Inside the Escorted/Hosted Travel Advisor Group (it's free, it's yours)
02:45 What FIT actually means, and why $20K off 15 guests beats 40 cabins
05:15 Marcie's "selfish trips" philosophy,  how bucket-list trips build a cult following
07:30 Lead the Manifest: what it is, the $3,333 investment, fall/spring semesters
09:30 Real-life update, back to school, teenagers, and "having kids was a scam"
12:45 Why she ditched destination weddings for groups (burnout + better money)
14:45 Legal disclaimer + why 35 questions turned into two full episodes
16:30 Network first, trip second,  the sequence everyone gets backwards
19:30 How to build a wait list before you even have a trip (the teaser method)
23:00 Pied Piper vs. hosted group, know the difference before you market
25:30 How to vet fit: active trips, booking-form disclosures, and the Tuscany autoimmune story
29:00 E&O insurance, seller of travel, and the tour operator threshold nobody explains
33:00 Terms & conditions that actually protect you, the group behavior addendum
35:45 Deposits, attrition & contracts,  the villa story after her dad passed
38:45 Pricing for profit: the $1,000/person minimum and the "fuck up fund"
40:45 Group minimums, DMC deposit requirements, and pricing pre/post extensions
42:30 Part 2 tease + how to get on the Lead the Manifest wait list

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Marcie Muensterman

This week on the No BS Travel Advisor Podcast, Marcie Muensterman gets personal before diving into one of her most requested Q&A episodes yet.

Marcie opens up about navigating another birthday without her dad, shares exciting updates inside Travel Advisor Training by Marcie, the upcoming 2027 retreat, and announces the launch of her brand-new Maximize Your Escorted & Hosted Travel Advisor Group Business Facebook community, a free space dedicated exclusively to helping travel advisors plan, market, and sell out profitable hosted and escorted group trips. You’ll also be first in the know for the Spring 2027 LIVE coaching experience called Lead the Manifest®️: THE ONLY Escorted Groups course that teaches you how to build a repeatable, profitable groups travel business.

Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximizeyourescortedgroupsbusiness 

It’s a spin-off of her regular group, which boasts 16,000 TAs who talk business EVERY SINGLE DAY: https://www.facebook.com/groups/maximizeyourtravelagentbusiness 

Then it's time for your questions, which she plans to do MONTHLY on the podcast.

Can travel advisors really earn six figures? What should you do during slow booking seasons? Should you create another stream of income? How do you know if your business is actually healthy? When should you start planning group travel? And what mistakes are keeping travel advisors stuck?

In this episode, Marcie covers:

Whether you're brand new to the travel industry or an experienced travel advisor looking to grow your income, increase commissions, improve your marketing, or start selling profitable group travel, this episode is packed with practical strategies you can put to work immediately.

If you're searching for travel advisor coaching, travel advisor marketing, travel business training, host agency advice, consultation fees, Facebook group strategies, escorted group travel, hosted group trips, or sales systems for travel advisors, you're in the right place.

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Marcie believes they absolutely can, but it doesn't happen overnight. Building a six-figure travel business takes consistency, charging planning fees, increasing average booking values, creating repeat business, earning referrals, and treating a travel business like a real business instead of a hobby.

Marcie doesn't believe every slow season is a bad thing. When business slows down, she recommends creating content, networking, organizing your CRM, improving your business systems, and giving yourself permission to rest. Sometimes a slow season is exactly what your business needs before the next busy one arrives.

Marcie believes it depends on where you are in your business. If you're still building your client base, she recommends focusing your time on marketing and networking instead of starting another business. Once your travel business is stable, adding additional income streams can make much more sense.

Marcie believes every travel advisor should know their numbers. A Profit & Loss statement tells the real story of a business. She recommends tracking income, expenses, projected commissions, and profitability so you can make informed business decisions.

According to Marcie, many new travel advisors spend too much time consuming information instead of implementing it. Buying another course or attending another webinar won't grow a business if the systems you've already learned are never put into practice.

Marcie believes travel advisors should focus on the platform where their ideal clients already spend their time. For her business, that's Facebook. She has built successful businesses using Facebook Groups because they create meaningful conversations, build trust, and generate qualified travel clients.

Marcie believes relationships are the foundation of every successful travel business. She encourages advisors to volunteer, attend networking events, join community organizations, and consistently build genuine relationships with people who already know, like, and trust them.

Yes. Marcie believes planning fees are one of the fastest ways to build a healthier, more profitable travel business. Travel advisors deserve to be paid for their expertise and time, not just when supplier commissions arrive after travel.

Marcie teaches that every consultation should establish expectations, discuss a realistic investment level, explain planning fees, and clearly outline the next steps. The goal isn't simply to sell a vacation, it's to confidently guide clients through a professional planning process.

Marcie strongly recommends having an attorney review every Independent Contractor agreement before signing. Understanding the contract from the beginning can prevent costly mistakes and help travel advisors protect their businesses for years to come.

Marcie believes successful escorted and hosted group trips begin long before they're announced. She encourages travel advisors to first build an engaged audience, earn trust, grow their community, understand their financial risk, and then create an experience people can't wait to join.

Absolutely. Marcie believes Facebook Groups remain one of the most effective marketing tools available for travel advisors. They help advisors build trust, educate potential clients, create community, and generate repeat business.

Marcie believes implementation is what grows a business. Owning more courses or attending more webinars won't create results unless advisors consistently apply what they've learned to build systems, workflows, and better client experiences.

Marcie believes success comes from patience, networking, consistent marketing, and smart financial planning. Building a profitable travel business takes time, but advisors who continue showing up, building relationships, and marketing consistently are far more likely to create long-term success.

Marcie recently launched her free Facebook community, Maximize Your Escorted & Hosted Travel Advisor Group Business, to help travel advisors learn how to plan, market, and sell profitable escorted and hosted group trips while building sustainable businesses.

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Marketing

Sales

Host Agency

Groups

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Marcie Muensterman

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How do travel advisors actually build relationships with BDMs? And how do you get invited on travel agent FAM trips without constantly asking, “When’s the next FAM?”

It starts long before the invitation.

In this episode of the No BS Travel Advisor Podcast, Marcie breaks down how travel advisors can build genuine, long-term relationships with Business Development Managers (BDMs), supplier representatives, resort partners, and other travel industry professionals.

Inspired by two very different real-life BDM relationships, one that clicked almost immediately and another that took a full year of intentional relationship-building before a FAM invitation arrived, Marcie explains why your goal shouldn’t simply be getting invited on a trip.

Your goal should be becoming an advisor people know, trust, remember, and genuinely enjoy working with.

You’ll learn how to find and introduce yourself to your BDM, build familiarity without constantly asking for something, communicate your business and sales goals, support your BDM’s goals, express interest in FAM opportunities professionally, and become someone supplier partners actually want to invest in.

Marcie also tackles a controversial question: Should a host agency or travel agency owner limit an independent contractor’s access to BDMs?

There is a difference between having appropriate communication protocols and preventing travel advisors from building their own professional supplier relationships.

Your host may own the supplier agreement, but your professional reputation and industry relationships are something YOU have to cultivate.

Because your BDM might change companies. You might change hosts. Suppliers merge. Territories change. Business models evolve.

The relationships you build can follow you for decades.

If you’re wondering how to get invited on FAM trips, how to network in the travel industry, how to work with BDMs, or how to build stronger supplier relationships as a travel advisor, this episode gives you the long-game strategy nobody can shortcut for you.

00:00 – You Have More Time Than You Think: Consistency in Business
Jude’s comeback, Erich’s 100-pound journey, and why building a successful travel business takes longer than most advisors want it to.

03:20 – How Do Travel Agents Actually Get Invited on FAM Trips?
Why this episode was inspired by dinner with your Sandals BDM and a travel advisor friend who cultivated an AIC relationship for a year before getting a FAM invitation.

06:10 – What Does a BDM Actually Do for Travel Advisors?
What Business Development Managers really do, why they are not your personal emergency department, and why only contacting them when you need something is a terrible relationship strategy.

10:45 – How to Start Building a Real Relationship With Your BDM
Why you can still cultivate strong industry relationships even if you cannot attend every conference, trade show, lunch, or in-person event.

16:10 – Step 1: Find Out Who Your BDM Is
How to identify your BDM, register correctly with suppliers, attend their trainings, learn how they communicate, and start paying attention to the people behind the brands you sell.

17:25 – Step 2: Introduce Yourself BEFORE You Need Something
How to make the first connection, follow up after webinars and events, say thank you, and become more than another advisor name in a database.

20:50 – Step 3: Keep Showing Up and Give the Relationship Time
Why one email, webinar, or introduction is not enough and how consistency creates familiarity, trust, and eventually opportunity.

23:10 – Stop Only Contacting Your BDM When You Need Something
How to send good news, celebrate wins, follow up without an ask, and get to know the actual human being behind the BDM title.

26:40 – Tell Your BDM What You’re Building and Ask About Their Goals
How to share specific sales goals, growth plans, niches, hosted group ideas, and ask how you can support what your BDM is trying to accomplish too.

29:35 – How to Ask Your BDM About FAM Trip Opportunities
How to tell a BDM you want to be considered for educational travel, plant the seed without becoming annoying, and why you have to release the outcome.

31:00 – Yes, Your BDM Has to Like You
Why likability, trust, professionalism, flexibility, reputation, and being someone people actually want to travel with matter when FAM invitations are being considered.

33:35 – What to Do When You Finally Get Invited on a FAM
How to show up, learn, create content, sell the product, express gratitude, follow up afterward, and prove that the supplier’s investment in you mattered.

35:05 – Can Your Host Agency Limit Your Access to BDMs?
Why communication protocols are reasonable, but preventing independent contractors from professionally knowing and cultivating relationships with supplier representatives is a very different issue.

37:30 – Build Relationships With People, Not Titles
Why BDMs change jobs, advisors change hosts, suppliers change, and your long-term professional reputation should survive all of it.

39:20 – The Long Game: Nobody Can Build These Relationships for You
Why patience, personal responsibility, consistency, and taking action matter if you want opportunities and a sustainable career in the travel industry.

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Welcome back to another unfiltered episode of the No BS Travel Advisor Podcast!

This week, Marcie is diving deep into what it actually takes to survive the grueling three- to five-year mark in travel agent entrepreneurship. Drawing inspiration from a scorching-hot weekend at a softball tournament in Clermont, Florida, Marcie breaks down why confidence comes from showing up, not the other way around.

If you are tired of throwing spaghetti at the wall, hiding behind brand logos, or posting cartoonish, AI-generated images of yourself with a fake beach drink, this episode is your wake-up call. She is talking about true organic marketing: using your actual face, sharing your real, gritty, personal story, and owning your space, even when people are talking trash in the cheap seats.

What she covers in this episode:

Stop letting the cheap seats dictate how you build. It’s time to get out of your own way and start showing up for the business you desire!

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Chapters

00:00 - Introduction & The Annual Birthday Sale Hostess Marcie Muensterman welcomes listeners back, talks about her upcoming 46th birthday on July 27th, and shares details on her annual 46% off signature course sale.

03:15 - Facing the Hard Truths of Entrepreneurship Why the first three to five years of running a travel business are exhausting, and the absolute necessity of taking personal accountability rather than making excuses.

05:40 - Lessons in Perseverance from Clermont, Florida Marcie shares a hot, gritty weekend story about her daughter Jude’s softball tournament, comparing the girls' tenacity to the struggle of building a business.

09:45 - True Confidence Requires Showing Up Unpacking the reality that confidence is built through consistent action, not the other way around.

13:20 - Stop Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall. Why trying to be on every social media platform with no plan is killing your momentum, and why you should focus on one platform for an entire year.

16:50 - Quit Hiding Behind Brand Deals & Canva Logos A deep dive into why promoting supplier deals cuts travel agents off at the knees, the problem with generic Canva logos, and why clients connect with your face, not a palm tree.

19:15 - Stop Lazy AI Content The trap of lazy ChatGPT prompts and cartoonish AI images, and why Marcie would rather see a real selfie than an artificial graphic on a beach.

21:30 - The Private Facebook Group & Email Marketing Blueprint How to build an authentic "living room" space utilizing First Class Community strategies and translating those relationships into weekly email newsletters.

24:45 - Building a Niche From Within A special look at client and friend Farron Gustafson’s success specializing in travel for children with autism, proving that your niche is often rooted in your daily life.

27:50 - Silencing the Cheap Seats How Marcie built her travel and Cabi businesses from zero, how she handles online critics, and why you must remove unsupported vibes and toxic people from your building space.

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BRAND NEW: Client Boundaries vs Customer Service- Finding the Right Balance

Travel advisors often think burnout is caused by demanding clients. But what if the real issue is capacity, communication, and the way we show up in our businesses?

I am back to giving you all the real talk and unsolicited advice you have never gotten from anyone else in our industry. I am SO excited to have some time together again… I imagine you sitting in your car, drinking coffee, or listening on your walks. It means the world to me. I’m SO appreciative of your patience… 

In this BRAND NEW episode of the No BS Travel Advisor podcast, I'm sharing what has happened over the last six months, why I stepped away from the podcast, lessons from coaching 55 women through Lead the Manifest®️, and the difficult business decisions that forced me to rethink how I serve both clients and students.

We talk about:

If you're building a travel business that values relationships over transactions and you wanna hear what's been going on with me this year so far… this episode is for you.

00:00 Welcome Back & Where I've Been

05:18 Building Lead the Manifest & Learning in Real Time

11:47 Business Friendships, Loss & What They Taught Me

18:42 Why Service Matters More Than Boundaries

26:54 Reading Your Clients Before They Ask

34:28 Capacity, Burnout & Taking Ownership

42:31 Creating Loyal Clients Through Trust & Honest Communication

48:12 Final Thoughts: Above-and-Beyond Service Creates Abundance

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In this re-drop episode of The No BS Travel Advisor Podcast, Marcie sits down with Kristina Fox, founder of The Vacay Maker, to talk about something many travel advisors struggle with:

Believing they're worthy of success before they have proof.

Kristina balances a corporate marketing career while running a successful travel business, and throughout this conversation, one theme keeps coming up again and again:

The advisors who grow are the ones willing to invest in themselves, trust their value, and stop waiting for permission.

From charging fees and setting boundaries to building a business through consistency and education, Kristina shares practical advice that every advisor can apply immediately.

This conversation is equal parts mindset, strategy, and encouragement.

💥 In This Episode, We Get Into:

✨ Key Takeaways

💬 Quotable Moments

🎯 Who This Episode Is For

🔑 Keywords

Travel advisor success, charging travel planning fees, travel advisor marketing, self-belief in business, corporate career and entrepreneurship, Jamaica travel insights, travel insurance importance, work-life balance, travel advisor mindset, travel business growth, email marketing, travel advisor coaching, consistency in business, travel industry insights, profitable travel advisory strategies

Marcie Muensterman

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In this re-drop episode of The No BS Travel Advisor Podcast, Marcie sits down with Corrin Robinson, founder of Stay Booked Travel, LLC, for a refreshingly honest conversation about starting over, building a business from scratch, and trusting yourself in the process.

When Corrin launched her travel business, she wasn't coming from a sales background or years of industry experience.

She was a stay-at-home mom living overseas, navigating health challenges, learning a completely new industry, and trying to build a business while balancing family life.

And yet, through authenticity, transparency, and a commitment to serving clients well, she began building something meaningful.

This episode is a reminder that you don't need to have everything figured out before you start.

You just need to start.

💥 In This Episode, We Get Into:

✨ Key Takeaways

💬 Quotable Moments

🎯 Who This Episode Is For

🔑 Keywords

Travel advisor success, impact travel, sustainable tourism, stay-at-home mom entrepreneur, travel advisor podcast, transparency in business, travel advisor mindset, scarcity mindset, calendar control, travel advisor coaching, building client relationships, authentic marketing, travel business growth, entrepreneurship, work-life balance, travel industry insights

Marcie Muensterman

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In this re-drop episode of The No BS Travel Advisor Podcast, Marcie sits down with Asia Lantz, ASTA's 2025 Travel Advisor of the Year, to talk about something that far too many advisors overcomplicate:

Being yourself.

Before becoming an award-winning travel advisor, Asia worked in the beauty industry, trained through Liberty Travel, worked in GoGo Vacations' long-haul FIT department, and eventually built her own thriving business under Nexion.

What makes Asia's story so refreshing isn't just her success.

It's that she refuses to play a character to get it.

She's proof that you don't need to be pushy, fake, or constantly hustling to build a profitable travel business.

You just need to be yourself.

This conversation is packed with practical marketing advice, honest industry opinions, and reminders that some of the most effective business strategies cost absolutely nothing.

💥 In This Episode, We Get Into:

✨ Key Takeaways

💬 Quotable Moments

🎯 Who This Episode Is For

🔑 Keywords

Travel Advisor of the Year, ASTA, luxury travel advisor, Facebook group marketing, authenticity in business, travel advisor success, travel advisor sales tips, Nexion travel advisor, travel industry insights, entrepreneurship, community marketing, travel business growth, travel advisor coaching, social media marketing, travel advisor branding, luxury travel sales