CoNexion Conference Underway in San Diego

Travel agents attending the CoNexion conference and trade show in San Diego this week learned more about changes for the group that are now being implemented, reports PressToday’s Ted Davis.
About 400 agents heard from Stephen McGillivray (shown in photo), chief marketing officer of Travel Leaders Group, during the opening general session at the Loews Coronado Bay Resort. He described how Nexion, a partner with the Vacation.com group, has been folded into a new conglomerate organization called the TL Network. It is composed of Travel Leaders Associates, Results! Travel and Vcom – in Canada, it is named the TL Network Canada. As of Jan.1, the Vacation.com name will be retired, McGillivray said.
The new network has some 7,000 agency locations across the US and Canada, for a total of about 35,000 sellers. With over Cdn$22 billion in annual sales volume, TL Network is comprised of more than one third of North America’s leading travel agencies and is now the largest seller of luxury travel, cruises, river cruises and tours in the travel agency industry.
Thirty-two of the attendees at the San Diego conference are from Canada, and about 200 supplier reps are on site. The conference is themed as Building Bridges, and this is the 10th anniversary edition of the annual conference.
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