In the season finale of Trade Secrets, co-hosts Jamie Biesiada and Emma Weissmann share their top 25 travel predictions for 2025, covering everything from trends in the travel agency and tech landscape to destinations and travel styles they have their eyes on for the coming year. They also share some exciting news – Trade Secrets recently took home an award for Best Travel/Leisure Podcast in the annual Eddie and Ozzie Awards!

The sixth season of Trade Secrets will debut in early 2025.

Further resources

Mentioned on the show:


From TravelAge West, The top 5 trends for 2025


From TravelAge West, This cruise expert reached $3 million in annual sales using TikTok


From Travel Weekly, Women-only tours: A niche that is going mainstream


From Travel Weekly, Summer of the destination ‘dupes’


From Travel Weekly, A host of problems


Host Agency Reviews’ Travel Agency Software Profiles


Tern


Approach Guides


Epic Universe


From Travel Weekly, more about Universal Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas


Travel Weekly’s 2024 Travel Industry Survey


From Travel Weekly, some reading on different aircraft designs being developed


The new autonomous wheelchairs at Miami Airport

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In the season finale of Trade Secrets, co-hosts Jamie Biesiada and Emma Weissmann share their top 25 travel predictions for 2025, covering everything from trends in the travel agency and tech landscape to destinations and travel styles they have their eyes on for the coming year. They also share some exciting news – Trade Secrets recently took home an award for Best Travel/Leisure Podcast in the annual Eddie and Ozzie Awards!
The sixth season of Trade Secrets will debut in early 2025.
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Further resources
Mentioned on the show:
<ul>
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From TravelAge West, <a href="https://www.travelagewest.com/Industry-Insight/Business-Features/2025-travel-trends">The top 5 trends for 2025</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
From TravelAge West, <a href="https://www.travelagewest.com/Industry-Insight/Business-Features/travel-advisor-on-tiktok">This cruise expert reached $3 million in annual sales using TikTok</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
From Travel Weekly, <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Tour-Operators/The-growth-of-women-only-tours">Women-only tours</a>: A niche that is going mainstream
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
From Travel Weekly, <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Summer-of-the-destination-dupes">Summer of the destination ‘dupes’</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
From Travel Weekly, <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/A-host-of-problems">A host of problems</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
Host Agency Reviews’ <a href="https://hostagencyreviews.com/travel-agency-software">Travel Agency Software Profiles</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<a href="https://www.tern.travel/">Tern</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<a href="https://approachguides.com/">Approach Guides</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
<a href="https://www.universalorlando.com/web/en/us/theme-parks/epic-universe">Epic Universe</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
From Travel Weekly, more about <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/North-America-Travel/new-detail-Universal-Horror-Unleashed-Las-Vegas">Universal Horror Unleashed in Las Vegas</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
Travel Weekly’s <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/For-Travel-Agents/Travel-Industry-Survey">2024 Travel Industry Survey</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
From Travel Weekly, <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Airbus-reveals-hydrogen-powered-aircraft-designs">some reading</a> on <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Alaska-Airlines-invests-JetZero">different</a> aircraft <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/Airbus-develops-zero-emission-concept-planes-but-experts-doubt-idea-will-fly">designs</a> being <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Airline-News/V-shaped-plane-is-one-step-closer-to-reality">developed</a>
</li>
<li dir="ltr" aria-level="1">
The new <a href="https://news.miami-airport.com/miami-dade-mayor-and-american-airlines-announce-new-autonomous-wheelchairs-at-mia/">autonomous wheelchairs</a> at Miami Airport
</li>
</ul>
<hr>
Need advice?
Call our hotline and leave a message: 201-902-2098
Email us: <a href="mailto:tradesecrets@travelweekly.com">tradesecrets@travelweekly.com </a>
 
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’ 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

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information

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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