Academy Travel Worldwide
Take Your Travel Business Beyond the Parks
For many Academy Travel advisors, Disney is where the journey begins. As your experience grows and your clients begin asking, “Where should we travel next?” Academy Travel Worldwide gives you the education, resources, supplier relationships, and professional support to confidently take them around the world.
Academy Travel Worldwide is our dedicated worldwide travel division, created to help travel advisors expand beyond Disney and Universal into cruises, Europe, luxury travel, all inclusive resorts, guided vacations, custom itineraries, and extraordinary destinations across the globe.
Whether your clients are dreaming of sailing the Mediterranean, exploring Italy, experiencing an African safari, relaxing at a luxury Caribbean resort, cruising Europe’s rivers, or planning a once in a lifetime journey, Academy Travel Worldwide helps you develop the knowledge and relationships to turn those dreams into exceptional vacations.
Grow With Your Clients
Your clients’ travel needs change over time.
The family that trusted you with their first Walt Disney World vacation may eventually ask you to plan an anniversary in Italy, an Alaska cruise, a European river cruise, a honeymoon in the Caribbean, or a multigenerational journey across the world.
We want you to be the travel advisor they call for all of it.
Academy Travel Worldwide gives Academy Travel advisors an opportunity to broaden their expertise, diversify their businesses, and continue serving their clients through every stage of life.
Instead of sending valued clients somewhere else when they’re ready to explore beyond Disney and Universal, you can grow with them.
Discover the World
Academy Travel Worldwide supports advisors across an expanding portfolio of destinations and travel experiences, including:
Ocean Cruises
Develop expertise across contemporary, premium, and luxury cruise lines while helping clients discover destinations throughout the Caribbean, Alaska, Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond.
River Cruises
Learn the rapidly growing world of river cruising and help clients experience Europe and other destinations through immersive journeys that combine culture, history, cuisine, and personalized exploration.
Luxury Cruises
Expand into elevated cruise experiences featuring smaller ships, exceptional service, unique itineraries, and extraordinary destinations.
Europe
Build the knowledge needed to confidently plan vacations throughout Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Mediterranean, and destinations across Europe.
Guided and Escorted Vacations
Work with respected tour operators to create expertly designed journeys for travelers who want immersive experiences with the convenience of professionally planned itineraries.
All Inclusive Resorts
Help couples, families, honeymooners, and groups discover exceptional resort experiences throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, and other sought after destinations.
Luxury Travel
Develop the expertise and supplier relationships required to plan sophisticated vacations, distinctive hotels and resorts, private experiences, custom itineraries, and unforgettable journeys.
Expedition and Adventure Travel
Help clients discover some of the world’s most extraordinary places through expedition cruising, immersive exploration, wildlife experiences, and adventure travel.
Learn From Leading Travel Partners
Successful worldwide travel advisors understand that no one can become an expert in every destination overnight.
That’s why education is at the center of Academy Travel Worldwide.
Our advisors have opportunities to learn directly from respected cruise lines, tour operators, resorts, destination specialists, and travel partners through supplier presentations, webinars, destination education, training programs, industry events, and firsthand travel experiences.
The goal is not simply to know how to make a reservation.
The goal is to understand the experience well enough to confidently recommend the right vacation to the right client.
Specialized Education and Professional Development
Academy Travel Worldwide education is designed to help advisors move from interest to expertise.
Advisors can participate in destination and supplier education, live webinars, our Unfolded educational series, one on one support, professional development opportunities, familiarization experiences when available, and continuing education designed around the worldwide travel market.
As Academy Travel University continues to grow, worldwide destination education will become an important part of our broader advisor learning experience.
Build Stronger Supplier Relationships
Relationships matter in travel.
Academy Travel Worldwide works with respected travel partners across cruising, touring, resorts, luxury travel, and worldwide destinations.
These relationships give our advisors opportunities to learn from the companies creating the experiences they sell, understand new products and destinations, stay informed about industry developments, and build the professional knowledge necessary to better serve their clients.
More Destinations. More Opportunities.
Expanding beyond Disney and Universal isn’t simply about selling different vacations.
It’s about building a stronger business.
A diversified travel advisor can serve clients more often, retain relationships longer, generate repeat and referral business, and create opportunities across many different types of travel.
A client who begins with Disney may become a cruise client.
A cruise client may become a European travel client.
A European client may eventually be looking for a luxury journey, river cruise, safari, or once in a lifetime adventure.
Academy Travel Worldwide helps you remain their trusted travel advisor through all of it.
The Academy Travel Worldwide Difference
Academy Travel Worldwide combines the support and experience of Academy Travel with specialized education focused on destinations and experiences beyond the theme parks.
Advisors benefit from a growing worldwide travel community, supplier education, professional development, destination resources, business guidance, and access to a dedicated consumer website designed to showcase the vacations and experiences they can sell.
Most importantly, you don’t have to choose between being a Disney expert and a worldwide travel advisor.
You can be both.
Disney can be where your business begins.
Academy Travel Worldwide can help determine how far it grows.
Explore Academy Travel Worldwide
Whether you’re ready to expand into cruises, Europe, luxury travel, all inclusive resorts, guided vacations, or destinations around the globe, Academy Travel Worldwide provides a path to continue learning and growing.
Your clients are ready to see the world.
We want to help you take them there.