Online Agent Training Available on New TIPTO Website

The Truly Independent Professional Travel Organization claims to have created a comprehensive website with product information and interactive training for independent agents.

The 20-member marketing organization has made a “major investment” in the site, which goes live on February 1 and includes the launch of the online TIPTO Academy training facility. The address is unchanged at www.tipto.co.uk.

Replacing TIPTO´s long-standing site, the new website is designed to be more pro-active, allows greater interaction between TIPTO members and independent agents, acts as a communication channel and sees a major step forward in training capability.

TIPTO is offering prizes of £50 shopping vouchers to the first 10 agents who successfully complete all 20 training modules.

Each TIPTO member will have its own regularly-updated training module. An e-mail trigger will tell those companies which agents have completed their module. On completion of each module, agents automatically receive feedback, including the answers to questions they have answered incorrectly.

Agents who do not access the site for three months after completing a module are sent an e-mail to encourage them to continue their training.

Independent agents registering as users of the site automatically get their own personal diary, which tracks their progress in the academy, as well as providing a calendar of TIPTO events and highlights news flashes from TIPTO members.