The 1000

A Club for the World's Most Influential Travel Advisors. The 1000, a club for the world’s most influential travel advisors, launches with an industry-first plan to build the only community of wholly-verified, top producing travel advisors from every corner of the world, across all travel product types and budgets. Founded by industry veterans Tim Morgan (formerly of Virtuoso) and Jeff Sirota (formerly of Small Luxury Hotels of the World) to complement a travel advisor’s existing agency or consortia relationship, Developed by travel executives with dozens of years of experience in advisor, agency, consortia, and supplier segments, The 1000 aims to solve a common industry challenge: how to provide relevant recognition and rewards to travel advisors around the world based on their individual efforts and unique needs, no matter their agency or consortia, nor whether they focus on corporate or leis To achieve its goal, The 1000 was developed with assistance from a global travel advisor committee alongside the global C-suite travel executives that make up the organization’s Club Board: - Chris Austin, CSO, Explora Journeys, USA - Filip Boyen, CEO, Forbes Travel Guide, UK - Ulla Heffel Bohler, CEO, Insight Vacations & Luxury Gold, Switzerland - Courtnie Nichols, CEO, Compass Collective, USA - Andrea Grisdale, CEO, IC Bellagio, Italy - Matt Cameron-Smith, CEO, Voyages Indigenous Tourism, Australia Uniquely, The 1000 provides a first-of-its-kind recognition platform that gives all advisors the ability to understand how their sales success likely compares to others in their local area, country, and world. Once verified by The 1000, advisors can use this recognition to enhance their marketing to new and existing clients and supplier partners. Over time, benefits will continue to unlock related to advisors’ individual geographic needs, client needs, and product/supplier needs, giving them access to a community of like-minded travel advisors and suppliers across the globe.