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Travel Advisor Client Workflow Checklist

Managing a client from first inquiry through post-trip follow-up gets messy fast. This checklist walks you through the full journey in nine stages, with the specific tasks at each step that keep things from slipping through the cracks.

Duplicate it for every new client, or print one per active trip. The tasks are intentionally simple; they're prompts, not prescriptions. Adapt them to your business, your niche, and your suppliers.

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Section 1 · Inquiry Received

The first hour matters. This stage covers how to confirm and log every new inquiry, send a warm acknowledgment within 24 hours, flag urgency signals like fixed dates or milestones, and decide whether the lead is qualified to move forward, all before you've spent serious time on it.

Section 2 · Lead Qualification

Before you invest hours of research, run five quick checks to make sure the trip is one you can actually deliver well: niche fit, budget realism, date feasibility, who the real decision-maker is, and whether to move to a discovery call or send resources and exit gracefully.

Section 3 · Discovery Call

The discovery call decides whether they trust you to plan the trip. This stage covers the full call structure: sending a calendar link, prepping with their intake info, covering trip goals, budget, and your planning fee, and the 24-hour follow-up email that locks in next steps.

Section 4 · Intake & Profile Built

The details you capture now save hours later. This stage covers when to send the intake form, passport verification, traveler preferences, dietary and accessibility needs, and where to store the client profile so you can find it for every future trip with them.

Section 5 · Trip Research & Proposal

Three thoughtful options beat ten generic ones. This stage walks through researching suppliers, checking seasonality and weather, and building a tight one-to-three-option proposal that includes flights, hotels, transfers, activities, and insurance, plus the follow-up reminder if you don't hear back in three to five days.

Section 6 · Booking & Payment

Once they say yes, the work shifts from selling to executing. This stage covers getting client approval in writing, collecting deposits, sequencing bookings in the right order, sending confirmations as they come in, and setting reminders for final payment dates so nothing lapses.

Section 7 · Pre-Trip

A 30/14/7/2-day countdown that keeps the client prepared and surprises off the table. This stage covers passport and visa confirmations, the pre-departure document, weather updates, the brief have-a-great-trip note, and getting emergency contact info ready before they leave.

Section 8 · During Travel

Define what "reachable" means for you, and stick to it. This stage is short by design: stay reachable, send a mid-trip check-in for long or complex trips, and quietly track any service failures for the post-trip review and supplier follow-up.

Section 9 · Post-Trip

The trip ending is the start of the next one. This stage covers the welcome- home email, the debrief call for substantial trips, requesting reviews and referrals by name, logging lessons learned, and setting anniversary and "time to travel again" reminders that drive repeat business.

When a checklist isn't enough

A checklist works when you're tracking one or two trips at a time, not ten.
Client details start living in five different places: email, your CRM, a spreadsheet, a notes app, your head.
Follow-ups slip when no one system is reminding you they exist.
Commissions get forgotten or untracked, and you're left reconciling months later.

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Frequently asked questions

Who is this checklist for?

Travel advisors who want a repeatable workflow without buying software yet. It works for advisors who specialize in any niche (leisure, luxury, groups, corporate, destination weddings) because the stages are the same; only the supplier details change.

Do I have to use every step?

No. The tasks are prompts, not prescriptions. Cross off the ones that don't fit your business and add the ones we missed. The point is to make sure nothing important falls through the cracks, not to add busywork.

How is the Notion version different from the PDF?

The PDF is best for printing or filing per trip. The Notion template is interactive: you duplicate the database for every new client, check off tasks as you go, and link related notes and documents. Pick whichever fits how you already work.

Can I share this with my team?

Yes. The PDF and Google Doc can be shared freely with anyone at your agency. The Notion template can be duplicated into a shared workspace so your whole team is following the same process. There's no per-seat fee.

How often should I update the checklist?

After every trip, take five minutes to note anything that went wrong: a step that was missing, a supplier requirement you forgot, a client preference you wish you had asked about earlier. Add those as new tasks. After a few trips, the checklist becomes uniquely yours.

What does Voyagr do that this checklist does not?

The checklist tells you what to do. Voyagr keeps track of where you are in the workflow for every client at once, stores their profile so you never re-ask for a passport, connects bookings to commissions automatically, and pulls everything into one workspace, so you stop juggling five tools to run one trip.

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