Trade Secrets Podcast

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Welcome to Trade Secrets, a podcast from the editors of Travel Weekly, where travel advisors ask -- and answer -- questions. On each podcast, our editors will ask a veteran travel advisor to join them and field listeners’ questions. Topics will range from business advice to industry trends, history and more — as long as it’s travel-related, we want to address it! Find Trade Secrets wherever you get your podcasts, or at travelweekly.com/podcasts.


ABOUT YOUR HOSTS:

Jamie Biesiada is a senior editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors’ 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine.

Emma Weissmann brings more than a decade of reporting and editing experience to her role as Features Editor at Travel Weekly, where she covers destinations and retail travel and contributes to social media, podcast and multimedia initiatives. Before joining Travel Weekly, Emma served as Editor-in-Chief of AGENTatHOME and Executive Editor of TravelAge West and hosted the Humans of Travel podcast. She also helped create and produce the Future Leaders in Travel event for early-career travel advisors.



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Episode Date
Checking in on 2026’s top travel trends
Jun 08, 2026
Should travel advisors be worried about hantavirus? (Feat. Urvshi Marwah)
May 25, 2026
Trade Secrets After Dark: Growing up in travel and AI competition with Mr. Honeymoon (feat. Jim Augurinos)
May 11, 2026
Why make $5 when you can make $500? Breaking into the world of ultra-high-net-worth travel (feat. Jack Ezon)
Apr 28, 2026
Encore: Trading social media for Substack: Using content to build a brand (Feat. SmartFlyer’s Kayla Douglas)
Apr 20, 2026
Honest to blog: How one agency turned blogging into river cruise gold (feat. Hank Schrader)
Apr 06, 2026
Trade Secrets After Dark: Bourbon, editorial strategy and cross-border incidents (feat. Johanna Jainchill)
Mar 23, 2026
Succession planning for travel agencies, part 2 (feat. attorney Tom Carpenter)
Mar 16, 2026
Succession planning for travel agencies, part 1 (feat. Stacey and Sami Ray)
Mar 02, 2026
Don’t get burned: Navigating host agency red flags (feat. Marcie Muensterman)
Feb 16, 2026
Encore: How can new travel advisors build a successful career? (Feat. Bill Coyle of KHM Travel)
Feb 02, 2026
Encore: Travel advisors, what’s your elevator pitch? (feat. Jackie Friedman)
Jan 19, 2026
Encore: How do you grow your travel agency — and trust your new advisors?
Jan 05, 2026
Encore: Oh, the places you’ll go! Destination weddings, honeymoons & beyond, feat. Jennifer Donscesz
Dec 22, 2025
Event-based travel, ‘kidfluence’ and beyond: What’s in store for 2026?
Dec 08, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Travel Industry Solutions (feat. Sheila Folk)
Dec 01, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: VacationCRM (feat. Stephen Kelly)
Nov 24, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: VacationPort (feat. Sarah Bauman)
Nov 17, 2025
How did Brownell, America’s oldest travel agency, modernize its tech stack? (feat. Rene Alldredge)
Nov 10, 2025
Trade Secrets After Dark: The latest trends in luxury, reality TV travel and all the good vibes (Feat. Virtuoso’s David Kolner)
Nov 03, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Travelport (feat. Andrew Jordan)
Oct 27, 2025
Beyond the algorithm: Keeping travel personal in a tech-driven world (2025 HAR*Wired Week)
Oct 20, 2025
Trade Secrets After Dark: Expedition cruising, morning hikes and the best travel movies (Feat. Lindblad’s Rachel Woodward)
Oct 13, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Viator (feat. Sarah Dines)
Oct 06, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: TravelJoy (feat. Dayo Esho)
Sep 29, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: FamGuru (feat. Carrie Wallace)
Sep 22, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: LUXPages (feat. Dora Karanikas)
Sep 15, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Expedia TAAP (feat. Robin Lawther)
Sep 08, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Tres Technologies (feat. Lee Rosen)
Sep 01, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Brava (feat. Jeremy Sulek)
Aug 25, 2025
Trade Secrets After Dark: Travel advisor resilience, mai tais and upgrades gone wrong (Feat. Northstar Travel Group’s Mary Pat Sullivan)
Aug 18, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: The Trip Boutique (feat. Fernanda Barrence Mutz)
Aug 11, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Magic Made Simple (feat. Christina Vieira)
Aug 04, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: TravelWits (feat. Arman Bimatov)
Jul 28, 2025
Trade Secrets After Dark: Travel advisor advocacy, travel mishaps and favorite cocktail recipes (Feat. ASTA’s Jessica Klement)
Jul 21, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Approach Guides (feat. Jennifer Raezer)
Jul 14, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: FyndTravel (feat. Lisa Watson)
Jul 07, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Travel42 (feat. Larissa Worley)
Jun 30, 2025
Encore: How do I find and maintain work-life balance as a travel advisor? (Feat. Stephanie Lee)
Jun 23, 2025
Bonus: Inside Tern’s acquisition of Lucia, plus an encore episode about finding your brand identity
Jun 16, 2025
Encore: Demystifying DMCs: What are destination management companies, and how can travel advisors best work with them?
Jun 09, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Travel Pro Theory (feat. Kate Thomas)
Jun 02, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Tique (feat. Jennifer Jacob)
May 26, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: TripSuite (feat. Jacey Jones)
May 19, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Safari Portal (feat. Rachel West)
May 12, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: AtlasGuru (feat. Kim Bennett)
May 05, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Travefy (feat. Stephanie Gries)
Apr 28, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Lucia (feat. Grace Van Hollebeke)
Apr 21, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: WeTravel (feat. Ted Clements)
Apr 14, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Axus (feat. Gregory Wilshire)
Apr 07, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Sabre (feat. Kathy Morgan)
Mar 31, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: VAX VacationAccess (feat. Josef Shomperlen)
Mar 24, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Sion (feat. Irving Betesh)
Mar 17, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: The Hive (feat. Whitney Shindelar)
Mar 10, 2025
Trade Secrets Tech Summit: Tern (feat. David Shull)
Mar 03, 2025
Guess what’s coming on March 3? A brand-new season of Trade Secrets!
Feb 17, 2025
Trading social media for Substack: Using content to build a brand (Feat. SmartFlyer’s Kayla Douglas)
Feb 10, 2025
Encore: How should travel advisors manage client expectations?
Jan 27, 2025
Encore: How can new travel advisors build a successful career? (Feat. Bill Coyle)
Jan 13, 2025
Encore: Travel advisors, what’s your elevator pitch? (feat. Jackie Friedman)
Dec 30, 2024
Encore: Why can't we be friends? Forming productive travel advisor-supplier relationships
Dec 16, 2024
Season 5 finale: Emma and Jamie’s top 25 predictions for travel in 2025
Dec 02, 2024
2024 rewind: What trends shaped the travel industry — and impacted agents — this year
Nov 18, 2024
How do I find and maintain work-life balance as a travel advisor? (Feat. Stephanie Lee)
Nov 04, 2024
Demystifying DMCs: What are destination management companies, and how can travel advisors best work with them?
Oct 21, 2024
Oh, the places you’ll go! Destination weddings, honeymoons and beyond, feat. Jennifer Doncsecz
Oct 07, 2024
Trade Secrets at Virtuoso Travel Week, part 3: How can travel advisors get ‘commissions with a comma'? (Feat. Dondra Ritzenthaler)
Sep 23, 2024
Trade Secrets at Virtuoso Travel Week, part 2: As a travel advisor, how do I break into the world of luxury travel sales?
Sep 09, 2024
Trade Secrets at Virtuoso Travel Week, part 1: What are the latest trends in luxury travel? (Feat. David Kolner)
Aug 26, 2024
Inside the Trade Secrets mailbag: Answering your most pressing questions (Feat. Chad Burt of Outside Agents)
Aug 12, 2024
How can new travel advisors build a successful career? (Feat. Bill Coyle of KHM Travel Group)
Jul 29, 2024
How should travel advisors manage client expectations?
Jul 15, 2024
Trade Secrets on the road, part 3: How does Europe’s travel agency landscape compare to the U.S.?
Jul 01, 2024
Trade Secrets on the road, part 2: From pitch to prime time, how travel advisors can — and should — get on TV  (feat. Jenn Lee, Vanessa McGovern and Erika Richter)
Jun 17, 2024
Trade Secrets on the road, part 1: ASTA’s Zane Kerby on American Airlines and the importance of education
Jun 03, 2024
How do you grow your travel agency — and trust your new advisors?
May 20, 2024
Travel advisors, what’s your brand identity? (feat. Christina Vieira)
May 06, 2024
How should travel agents address travel advisories?
Apr 22, 2024
Travel advisors, what’s your elevator pitch? (feat. Jackie Friedman)
Apr 08, 2024
Mic check, one, two: How do we create Trade Secrets?
Mar 25, 2024
Why can't we be friends? Forming productive travel advisor-supplier relationships (feat. Vicki Freed and Jamie Margolis)
Mar 11, 2024
Icon of the Seas: How big can a cruise ship get?
Feb 26, 2024
Travel advisors, are you using the right tech stack?
Feb 12, 2024
Decoding 2024: What trends will shape the travel advisor landscape?
Jan 29, 2024
Encore: Top travel pros and their best advice for advisors
Jan 15, 2024
Trade Secrets presents Humans of Travel: Kristin Karst of AmaWaterways
Jan 01, 2024
Trade Secrets presents The Folo: A wish list for Disney’s $60 billion parks plan
Dec 18, 2023
Trade Secrets presents The Last Resort: 1 Hotel Hanalei Bay
Dec 04, 2023
The fast lane to success: Travel advisor Christy Menzies’ million-dollar start
Nov 20, 2023
How do I get started as a travel advisor?
Nov 06, 2023
Which travel insurance policy is right for my clients? (part 2)
Oct 23, 2023
Which travel insurance policy is right for my clients? (part 1)
Oct 09, 2023
On the ground in Maui: Should travel agents send clients to the island right now?
Sep 25, 2023
Fam trips: How can they help your business, travel advisors?
Sep 11, 2023
As a travel advisor, how do I encourage my clients to travel more sustainably?
Aug 28, 2023
Hawaii wildfires: What travel advisors need to know
Aug 10, 2023
How do I use generative AI to improve my travel agency’s workflow?
Aug 07, 2023
Navigating the expedition cruise boom: Insider insights for travel advisors
Jul 24, 2023
Unleashing sales superpowers: Sales strategies for travel advisors, part two
Jul 10, 2023
Unleashing sales superpowers: Sales strategies for travel advisors, part one
Jun 26, 2023