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Aug 25, 2026
MeganHOST
Excuse me.
MeganHOST
Across the pond, more than 310,000 agents are members of the American Society of Travel Advisors, another trade group, up from 190,000 in 2024.
MeganHOST
LinkedIn recently ranked the job one of the fastest growing in America, though the Bureau of Labor Statistics reckons it will grow more slowly than average in the period until 2034.
MeganHOST
People turn to travel advisors for their taste and judgment in curating trips, says Evan Frank, co-founder of Fora, a luxury host agency.
Gilad BerensteinGUEST
And what Toggle is trying to do is it's trying to help travel advisors, many of whom are now independent contractors, and running their own small businesses be able to run their small business in the way that any ceo or any gm is running a much larger business so they've got data capabilities they've got financial insights for them and all sorts of ways for them to improve their yield their profitability and to run a better business and this is a really exciting theme that i've seen across a number of companies helping our advisors professionalize improve their businesses and be able to spend more time on human connection less time on things like accounting
James ShillinglawHOST
Well, I got to tell you, with Toggle, we'd actually interviewed all three of those guys earlier this year after they won sort of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the American Society of Travel Advisors.
James ShillinglawHOST
So we were familiar with them, and it was good to see them at Virtuoso.
James ShillinglawHOST
and we had a lot of fun saying hello to them and they came over and thanked me when i because that interview is up up on insider travel report if you want to know more just look for uh you know search for toggle and you'll find it so that that they're in a fun guys they're all university of michigan graduates uh one is the tallest innovator of technology i've ever But that's another one.