How can travel advisors best serve clients who are transgender or gender nonconforming? On this episode of Trade Secrets, hosts Jamie Biesiada and Emma Weissmann tackle that question and others related to transgender travelers with Scott Wismont, the owner of Rainbow Getaways in Kissimmee, Fla. Scott provides a number of useful resources, talks about the ‘X’ gender marker that’s now available for U.S. passport-holders and addresses how to serve transgender travelers if you haven’t worked with them before (spoiler: research, research, research!). 

Trade Secrets will be going on a brief break for the holidays, but we’ll be back with new episodes in January. In the meantime, look for a new episode of Selling the Mouse next week.

Further resources:

Scott’s agency, Rainbow Getaways, on the web, on Instagram and on Facebook

Scott on LinkedIn

Trade Secrets: Pride in LGBTQ+ travel bookings

National Center for Transgender Equality

Abeni Jones’ June 2021 Travel Weekly piece, Traveling while transgender

Abeni’s June 2022 Travel Weekly piece, Focus on LGBTQ+ travel

Abeni discussing the 2022 piece on Travel Weekly’s The Folo podcast

IGLTA, the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association

TravelAge West’s guide to the programs that help expedite travel

From TravelAge West, the U.S. will offer a gender-neutral passport option and travel security measures

OutCoast in Florida

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How can travel advisors best serve clients who are transgender or gender nonconforming? On this episode of Trade Secrets, hosts Jamie Biesiada and Emma Weissmann tackle that question and others related to transgender travelers with Scott Wismont, the owner of Rainbow Getaways in Kissimmee, Fla. Scott provides a number of useful resources, talks about the ‘X’ gender marker that’s now available for U.S. passport-holders and addresses how to serve transgender travelers if you haven’t worked with them before (spoiler: research, research, research!). 
Trade Secrets will be going on a brief break for the holidays, but we’ll be back with new episodes in January. In the meantime, look for a new episode of Selling the Mouse next week.
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Further resources:
Scott’s agency, Rainbow Getaways, on<a href="https://www.rainbowgetaways.net/"> the web</a>, on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rainbowgetaways/">Instagram</a> and on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rainbowgetaways">Facebook</a>
Scott on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottwismont">LinkedIn</a>
Trade Secrets:<a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Podcasts/Trade-Secrets/Trade-Secrets-booking-pride"> Pride in LGBTQ+ travel bookings</a>
<a href="https://transequality.org/">National Center for Transgender Equality</a>
Abeni Jones’ June 2021 Travel Weekly piece, <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Focus-on-LGBTQ-Travel-Traveling-while-transgender">Traveling while transgender</a>
Abeni’s June 2022 Travel Weekly piece, <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Focus-on-LGBTQ-travel-2022">Focus on LGBTQ+ travel</a>
Abeni <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Podcasts/Folo/focus-on-lgbtq-travel">discussing the 2022 piece</a> on Travel Weekly’s The Folo podcast
<a href="https://www.iglta.org/">IGLTA</a>, the International LGBTQ+ Travel Association
TravelAge West’s <a href="https://www.travelagewest.com/Industry-Insight/Business-Features/trusted-traveler-programs">guide to the programs that help expedite travel</a>
From TravelAge West, <a href="https://www.travelagewest.com/Industry-Insight/Opinion/gender-neutral-passport-united-states">the U.S. will offer a gender-neutral passport option and travel security measures</a>
<a href="https://outcoast.com/">OutCoast</a> in Florida
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Theme song:
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Welcome to Trade Secrets, a podcast from the editors of Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, where travel advisors ask -- and answer -- questions. On each podcast, our editors will ask a veteran travel advisor to join them and field listeners’ questions. Topics will range from business advice to industry trends, history and more — as long as it’s travel-related, we want to address it! Find Trade Secrets wherever you get your podcasts, or at travelweekly.com/podcasts.

ABOUT YOUR HOSTS:

Jamie Biesiada is a senior editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors’ 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine.

Emma Weissmann is a Senior Editor of TravelAge West, a print and online magazine for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the host of the Humans of Travel podcast, where she interviews notable individuals in the travel industry about their lives — the highs and lows that make them human.


Theme song:
Sock Hop by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4387-sock-hop
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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Welcome to Trade Secrets, a podcast from the editors of Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, where travel advisors ask -- and answer -- questions. On each podcast, our editors will ask a veteran travel advisor to join them and field listeners&rsquo; questions. Topics will range from business advice to industry trends, history and more &mdash; as long as it&rsquo;s travel-related, we want to address it! Find Trade Secrets wherever you get your podcasts, or at <a href="http://travelweekly.com/podcasts">travelweekly.com/podcasts</a>.
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ABOUT YOUR HOSTS:
Jamie Biesiada is a senior editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors&rsquo; 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine.
Emma Weissmann is a Senior Editor of TravelAge West, a print and online magazine for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the host of the Humans of Travel podcast, where she interviews notable individuals in the travel industry about their lives &mdash; the highs and lows that make them human.
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