Each year, SmartFlyer celebrates its top-producing travel agencies through its recognition program, SmartFlyer ONE. It has also announced a new designation, SmartFlyer ICON, which honors agencies that have achieved SmartFlyer ONE status five times or more. The SmartFlyer platform supports more than 250 travel advisors spanning the United States, Australia and Europe.
The New York City-based travel company has announced that 18 of its affiliate agencies have received the recognition of SmartFlyer ONE 2023. SmartFlyer ONE was conceptualized in 2015 to recognize the agency’s top-producing advisors; at the time, the minimum revenue to achieve the honor was just over $1 million in sales. Recipients’ revenue threshold to earn SmartFlyer ONE 2023 recognition starts at $6.3 million in actualized sales with several agencies producing over $17 million in sales.
SmartFlyer ONE 2023 Recipients
- Robert Merlin, SmartFlyer, St. Louis, MO
- Judy Stein, The Stein Collective, New York, NY
- Kara Slater, SmartFlyer, Los Angeles, CA
- Elisa Brown, MAPPS, Southport, CT
- Kyle Seltzer, KAX Lifestyle, Miami, FL
- Michelle London, Away We Globe, Los Angeles, CA
- Addie Bell, Jetset & Travel, Park City, UT
- Jacqui Weidman, SmartFlyer, New York, NY
- Deborah Director, SmartFlyer, Boca Raton, FL
- Erin Trager-Kusman, SmartFlyer, Louisville, KY
- Amanda Poses, Poses Travel & Co., Austin, TX
- Betsey Brown, Betsey Brown Travel, St. Louis, MO
- Kimberly Gavin, Canvas Travel Co., Newport Beach, CA
- Betsy Polatsch, SmartFlyer, Westchester, NY
- Suzy X Dodd, SmartFlyer, New York, NY
- Ash Chin, Sojourns Of, Sydney, Australia
This year, in addition to the 16 single Principal agencies listed above, SmartFlyer recognized two affiliate partnerships: Imperial SmartFlyer and Marchay.
The 2023 SmartFlyer ONE advisors will be recognized during the agency’s three-day summit at SmartFlyer CORE in London. Later this year, Michael Holtz, SmartFlyer CEO and founder, and Erina Pindar, COO and managing partner of SmartFlyer, will co-host the annual SmartFlyer ONE retreat in a yet-to-be-announced location. As always, the ethos of the trip is centered on the continued collection of shared knowledge; every experience is meant to provide both inspiration and first-hand recommendations to be passed on to existing and future clients.
SmartFlyer has also announced a new designation, SmartFlyer ICON, which honors agencies that have achieved SmartFlyer ONE status five times or more. For its inaugural year, SmartFlyer has welcomed six founding members to its ICON status.
SmartFlyer ICON Founding Members
- Robert Merlin, SmartFlyer, St. Louis, Missouri
- Kara Slater, SmartFlyer, Los Angeles, California
- Kyle Seltzer, KAX Lifestyle, Miami, Florida
- Katie Jacobson, Ever After Honeymoons, Newport Beach, California
- Deborah Director, SmartFlyer, Boca Raton, Florida
- Kimberly Gavin, Canvas Travel Co., Newport Beach, California
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