If you have already purchased our product skip to step 2.
Order your Online Associate Travel Agent Training Manual by purchasing online. The OnLine Product Order, Click Here will get you started the quickest. Your payment information from your product purchase will be automatically transferred to the payment information for your monthly Business Maintenance charges.

If you would like your Autoship Monthly Business Maintenance (mbm) to be deducted from a credit card other than the one used for your product order, or for credit card information updates, submit an Online Business Maintenance Form, Click Here. Be sure to fill out as much contact information as possible on your application, especially your email address, because you won’t want to miss any important communications from GT Trends through our emailed Newsletters.

2. Study the Online ATA Training Manual and take your ATA exam!

The Associate Travel Agent Online Training Manual is made up of many chapters that may be studied one at a time or all at once. Many people will choose to print the Online ATA Training Manual and use it as a study guide. The manual will give you an overview of the Travel Industry and has all of the information you will need to pass the exam. Your Online Associate Travel Agent Training Manual and ATA Exam are located in your private ATA Online Community Center under Training Manual. The ATA Exam is a multiple choice 20-question exam based on the material in the online ATA Training Manual. This is an auto grading exam and will automatically present a link to your Credentials Application when you pass your exam.

Before taking your exam, be sure to have your digital passport style photograph ready to email to the credentials department or upload it from the link on the Credentials Application. Please send your digital photo, along with your full name and ATA ID number, to credentials@gttrends.com . Most Kinko's, MBEs and Photo Developers will be able to scan your photo for you if you do not have a scanner, please request a 300 dpi image if possible. They will probably be happy to put it on a CD for you so you can use it over and over.

3. Customize your Replicated Business Opportunity Web Site!

Customizing your new business opportunity web site is easy. Go to the ATA Member Login on located to the left. Login your ATA ID number and password to enter into your private ATA Online Community Center. Click on the menu option "My Replicated Website" from the Business Tools dropdown menu to customize your business opportunity web site.

Your Replicate Business Opportunity Web Site address is: www.Yourgttrendsnumber.gttrends.net, for example, www.1234567.gttrends.net.

4. Choose your default Order Placement and GT Trends Email address!

All orders submitted on your personal business opportunity web site can be placed where you choose! To select the automatic placement of orders from your web site, or to choose your GT Trends email address. log into your ATA Online Community Center and click on the menu option Edit Personal Info from the Member Center dropdown menu.

For automatic Order Placement, click the link labeled “EDIT Your Replicated Website's Default Member Placement”.

For your individual GT Trends email address, go to the section titled “GT Trends Forwarding Email:” and click the link labeled "EDIT" type in your chosen email address in the top box. In the bottom box type in your primary personal email address. Any email sent to yourname@gttrends.net email address will forward to your primary personal email address. This protects your private email address and gives you a company GT Trends email presence.

5. Order Your GT Trends Business Cards!

To establish your Associate Travel Agent status to travel vendors and suppliers you may need to show your business card along with your Letter of Agency Verification and ATA Photo Name Badge. Your Business Card will also be used to introduce potential customers and associates to the GT Trends business opportunity web site and online Travel Center booking web site. Business card order forms are only available for shipment in the United States. For all our Associate Travel Agents in other countries, you will find official GT Trends downloadable business card graphics to take to a local professional printer. You can find these in the Resources and Tools Library in your private ATA Online Community Center.

6. Study the Online Travel Search Engine!

Remember "Shopper Login" registration is required prior to any bookings to be eligible for commissions. Become familiar with the way to use the travel booking engine and how to complete the Shopper Login Registration. You want to be able to walk someone through this part of the site so they can see the incredible choices and discounts available. You must complete the Shopper Loggin Registration on YOUR Travel Center located at www.YOURURL.gttrendscom. In order to accurately track commissions and travel leads, every user, including you, must register in YOUR travel center. This assures that YOUR leads will always be redirected to your travel center even if they don’t remember your URL and that any bookings you process for clients through your replicated travel center are accurately tracked. To register with your travel center please direct your browser to www.userid.gttrends.com And click the “Shopper Login” button. Next click the “Join Now” button in the blue “Not a Member” box. Complete the enrollment form; please be aware that this login information will be different than your ATA Member login information. Your username will be your email address and the password is all numbers. You do not have to register for the 3-day 2-night hotel stay to use the travel center. Once you have registered with your travel center use your browser’s “back” button to return to the travel center home page or you can close and reopen your browser. You can now login in by clicking the “Shopper Login” button, and entering your login information in the “Already a Member” box. You can verify that you are correctly registered with your travel center by logging in to your online community center and selecting the "Travel Leads Manager" option from the "Business Tools" drop down menu.

7. Study the Customer Acquisition Bonus (CAB) Program! Promote, Review and Learn!

Get familiar with how you will receive Compensation. The option Compensation, on the menu to left, offers more clarification on the GT Trends CAB program. Ask your introducer/enroller if you have any questions. Use the tools that you choose to create excitement and interest in your prospects. Walk people through the web site, hand out your business cards, get people on conference calls and most importantly tie into your active associates and their system. Make it a habit to check out the web site as changes and enhancements are taking place every day. Learn as much as you can about the travel industry. Become a student of your new business. The best way to learn is to teach someone else. Take a cruise, go on a FAM trip or try a Group Tour. For the first time in the industry when we say, “use the product,” it means “Go have FUN!”