Largay Travel

About Largay Travel

Largay Travel was founded in 1969 by Roland F. Largay. Paul Largay, Roland’s nephew, joined the organization in 1982.Amanda Klimak, current company president, equity partner, and Virtuoso advisory board member, joined the team in 2001. Collectively they’ve traveled the world and built one of New England’s premier travel management organizations.

Headquartered in Waterbury, Connecticut, Largay provides a staff of 60 dedicated, experienced advisers, whose average tenure exceeds 20 years. To ensure all the unique needs of each respective sector and traveler are satisfied, the company is strategically divided into three separate divisions: leisure travel, group & incentive, and corporate services.

Largay Travel is a branch of the Tzell Travel group, and proud members of the exclusive Virtuoso network of trusted travel specialists. Our memberships provide for exclusive travel experiences, and guarantees values not available or accessible to non participants.Virtuoso membership, limited to less than 1% of all global agencies, enables us to offer clients complimentary upgrades, outstanding amenities and privileged access to events throughout the world.

Our value proposition is to provide clarity to the confusion of choices and destination information by discovering what matters to you as a traveler, and subsequently leveraging our knowledge and industry relationships to deliver personalized recommendations and solutions.

Our primary leisure expertise and focus is on soft-adventure programs (i.e. hiking, biking, walking, ballooning, etc.), family travel, worldwide deluxe cruising, and African Safaris. Paul Largay, having just returned from escorting his 13th safari, was featured in Travel & Leisure Magazine as one of “America’s Top 100 Secret Travel Agents” for a decade. Considering there are 26,000 eligible agents competing for these honors, we are extremely proud of these professional recognitions and distinctions and the difference they can make in your travel plans.

Grow Your Independent Business with Largay Travel
As an independent contractor, you create your own vision, set your own goals, and make your own decisions. Your success, and your client’s satisfaction, is directly related to how well you organize your resources and apply your skills.

The prestigious Virtuoso Network offers unmatched advantages to Independent Contractors who have affluent leisure clients and want to optimize their luxury travel business and revenue. Those advantages are all yours if you align yourself with a Virtuoso-Member host agency, which you can do without giving up your independence or compromising the privacy of your client list.

Higher commissions, lower operating costs, and a host of other benefits await you as a Virtuoso travel advisor.

Benefits

Personalized Marketing
Virtuoso Life, Virtuoso’s award-winning travel magazine, arrives in your clients’ homes presented as a gift from you and personalized with your name and contact information.

Best of the Best, Virtuoso’s annual compendium of preferred hotels, resorts, spas, and lodges provides the definitive word on the world’s most exquisite stays and details the complimentary Virtuoso amenities provided to your clients.

Virtuoso Insights, a powerful prospecting magazine that converts qualified prospects into devoted clients.

Themed travel catalogs focus on a particular theme or destination with specially created offers from a variety of suppliers.

Direct mail, funded by suppliers, is directed in your name to those clients who best match the appropriate demographic profile and travel interest – always with your advance permission.

E-marketing is directed in your name to those clients for whom you have supplied email addresses and wish to receive outstanding travel offers.

Professional Support

Virtuoso Member Sales Support provides phone and email support over extended hours to Virtuoso advisors to assist with any network-related issue.

Virtuoso Composer, a revolutionary, password-protected Internet site, provides agent-level detail and contact/booking information for thousands of leisure travel options, as well as online directories and other features to help you manage your business and effectively sell to affluent consumers.

The Virtuoso Trust offers both live training and education at Virtuoso conferences, up to nine product training webinars weekly, plus a wide variety of sales courses and professional development programs available to all member advisors online 24/7, many with incentives for Advisors. The Trust also supports Virtuoso’s highly successful Sales Campaigns with participating suppliers – complete with training, detailed timelines and action plans to generate impressive sales.