• What Do I Do?

    My official title is General Manager; the company I work for is a Tour Operator and Destination Management Company (DMC). When someone asks what you do for work, there’s often an easy answer. Some jobs require a little more explanation, but overall, most people have a basic understanding of what most job titles mean. You…

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    Walking the Block

    If you travel a lot, you may have some experience with the term “walking”. Walking a guest means that the hotel is over-sold, like many airlines do, and needs to re-accommodate some of the guests. In general, a hotel will not move someone who has already checked in, although it does happen. They will opt to move…

  • Glossary

    One of the first things I learned when I started in the travel industry was how to talk like a travel agent. There are lots of industry-specific terms and acronyms, as with any industry, that make it easy to tell the legit from the posers and throughout this blog, I use them all. Rather than…

  • How did I get here?

    I have absolutely no training in the travel and tourism industry yet here I am, posting as a “travel professional”. I felt it might be relevant to share how I got here and basically justify to my readers that I do, in fact, qualify as a travel professional. I wound up in the travel industry…

  • An Introduction

    Five Figure Lifestyle was created to be an inside look at the travel industry from a professional Tour Operator, Travel Agent and Travel Manager. Like most travel bloggers, I do travel for free, however, when I arrive on property, I get immediately to work to make everyone else’s vacation as smooth as possible. I often…