Gama Travel is a division of the Atrium Group which provides its members with the opportunity to manage their own business as a fully independent entity.
This is a fabulous option for those looking to grow their agency by taking advantage of all the tools and benefits a group can offer.
We are a powerful network that enables advisors to offer their clients inspiring travel experiences worldwide, while meeting and often exceeding their business objectives.
No two travel agencies are alike. Our promise and our single objective, then as now, is to unlock your profitability potential and help your business thrive. Whether you plan to specialize in luxury experiences, group cruises, creating memorable honeymoons, managing business travel, or African safaris, we will provide you with a partnership that inspires mutual contributions, is built on trust, and delivers the value and results you deserve.
The Gama Travel difference is you. Understanding this makes all the difference in the world and has earned us the respect and trust of thousands of independent agency owners and travel advisors.
Providing the best service in the travel industry while continuously improving the business benefits of our members by contributing constructive ideas, exclusive products, and strengthening our relationships with suppliers. The Atrium Group is strongly committed to ongoing training in all facets of the travel industry and strives to ensure its members remain at the forefront of the changes our industry is undergoing.
We have assembled a team of professional employees dedicated to assisting you in all aspects of your business. Whether it's customer service, technical support, or simply advice, our team is constantly developing new methods and services to help you increase your knowledge, efficiency, and profitability.
Our lucrative Partners Edge program offers qualified agencies a highly profitable opportunity to earn a year-end bonus in the form of profit sharing, higher upfront commissions, and exclusive discounts and amenities from select suppliers for your clients. Mutual success leading to profitability—that’s the Atrium Group method.
This tour operator was established to offer travel agencies direct and professional access to exclusive cruises and tours, along with excellent commission rates. The company’s shares are held by several agency owners within the group.
Gama Travel agencies can now offer financing of up to $2000 to all interested clients in a simple and quick manner without any legal involvement required from the agency.
The highly esteemed “Elite” designation is reserved for our most productive agencies, who earn higher commissions and benefit from premium free marketing programs, exclusive promotions and discounts, and much more. Elite agencies attend the Atrium Group Global Conference as VIP guests and are also invited to Elite Retreat, our annual celebration of your success and one of the most sought-after events of the year.
We can offer you several cruise departures with each of our preferred partners. This allows you to remain competitive and gives you access to exclusive savings and added value.
If you wish to increase the number of your outside agents, we can help you do so. Several programs are currently in place to facilitate this, but in the meantime, we can assist you with crafting your advertisements and identifying the best placements. We can even assist you with interviews, depending on your needs.
Knowledge for growth. As a leader in education, we understand the importance of continuous professional development and training for owners and managers, as well as for frontline and external agents.
With Voyages Gama, you’ll benefit from a comprehensive and ongoing education, training, and professional development program for advisors, including access to head office “Discovery Days,” “Boot Camp” training, annual owners’ meetings, exclusive familiarization trips, monthly webinars, and more. All programs and workshops help you manage your business and stay up-to-date on the latest industry trends.
We offer exclusive ship tours annually, as well as various cruise training courses to help our members become recognized cruise specialists.
Each year, the Atrium Group organizes a congress, various training sessions, familiarization trips, owners’ meetings, and roundtables in which all members are actively invited to participate. These events and conferences cover a wide range of topics, including business development, new technologies, market trends, advertising, and more.
We work closely with an exceptionally efficient technology company that is always available to meet your needs, help you improve your tools, help you create new ones, and much more. They are always available to answer your questions and are your primary contact for all your technology support needs. Fees may apply depending on your requirements.
To provide maximum support to our members, you can access our graphic design services by simply contacting the graphic design department to let them know your needs. While we cannot fulfill every request, we can easily meet many of your requirements.
We offer exclusive familiarization trips to our members. These trips allow you to discover, firsthand, different cruise destinations, groups, weddings, and more, helping you deepen your knowledge and ultimately sell a diverse range of products effectively and professionally.
Our exclusive consumer website solution is a lead-generating technology platform that makes it easy to connect with your customers wherever they are – on their desktop, laptop, iPad, or mobile phone. Even better, while each site offers rich content with built-in SEO, booking engines, and exclusive offers your customers can search in real time, they are uniquely designed to reflect your brand and individual style.
As a member, you have access to various online booking engines. Furthermore, with our cruise search and booking engine, your clients can access a wide range of cruise lines in just a few clicks.
The dashboard is first and foremost our primary communication tool. Through our message center, you can read internal memos and even add your own. Your dashboard allows you to manage your information and applications. Easy to use, it will be with you everywhere and will quickly become indispensable.
The CRM's functions are as varied as they are powerful. It's not just a simple customer database; it's the heart of your agency. More than forty qualifying fields include general information, travel history, passport details, areas of interest, relationships, and much more. By centralizing your company's information and intelligence in this way, you will greatly increase your team's productivity and communication.
This tool allows any agency that wishes to do so to provide after-sales follow-up to its clients. This automated system sends two separate emails to the client. This tool enables agents to develop a business relationship with their clients, thus positioning their agency as professional and allowing it to stand out from the competition.
Soltec is an accounting system specifically designed for travel agencies. Very similar to popular applications, Soltec is much less expensive and is directly linked to the customer relationship management (CRM) system implemented for the group’s agencies.
This option allows you to offer your external agents the possibility of having access to their own website through your basic B2C platform.
This service allows you to share and/or take advantage of groups offered by all members of the network. This enables you to offer your clients an even wider range of exclusive products and also allows you to fill any gaps in your bookings with other agencies, if necessary.
All our members have free access to Sabre and Sabre Vacations. We grant one PCC per agency, which can then be used to access this booking system at no cost.
You can only manage what you can measure. That’s why our game-changing Agency Performance and Management (APM) reporting tool is an invaluable resource. Easy to understand and providing a quick overview of vendor performance, the APM tool helps you track revenue growth areas, set goals, and identify potential earning opportunities. Effective business management is essential for achieving results, but you can only manage what you can measure.
From hosting GDS and ARC systems to competitive commissions across more than 60 airlines, our unique TravelTix solution will make flight sales profitable. Earn up to 20% commission on international routes and benefit from 24/7 ticketing capabilities. Don’t have GDS access? No problem. The EasyTix online booking engine allows agencies not connected to the GDS to make basic bookings, and if you have your own contracts with airlines, TravelTix can help you optimize your performance with those carriers.
Send personalized newsletters to your clients to offer them various promotions. This type of customized tool demonstrates to your clients how important they are to your agency and allows you to offer them exclusive access to your different products and specials. We create a weekly newsletter for you featuring your logo and contact information. All you have to do is forward it to your clients.
The days of a “shot-gun” approach, hoping something would stick, are over. Our tailored approach is personalized solutions, offering a robust direct mail and email program with hundreds of mailings to choose from, and enabling our agencies to target their clients based on their individual travel preferences.
Gift cards are a real advantage and a highly sought-after tool for both agents and clients. A gift card is a unique and memorable present that will always be a hit with your client’s friends, colleagues, or family. Your client simply decides the amount they wish to give.
The Advantage Card is the ideal solution for building customer loyalty, generating repeat business, and growing your database. This web-based solution is packed with exclusive offers, fully customizable with your agency’s logo and your own offers, and it’s perfect for providing added value to your independent contractors to foster loyalty. And best of all, it’s free!
In order to offer its members an additional tool that is both useful and profitable, the Atrium Group has an agreement allowing you access to more than 160,000 hotels worldwide with very advantageous pre-negotiated NET rates or with a guaranteed commission of up to 15% with the company Hotels pro.
We offer you the opportunity to own your own social media accounts (Facebook page, Twitter or others) which we propose to create for you and for which we commit to providing you with content that you can publish there if you deem it appropriate.
For a fee, members can set up various social media contests in collaboration with our suppliers, which will allow the agency to gather details about its clientele in order to better target it.
A truly inspiring brochure containing all the information, details, and exceptional destinations to help your clients plan and celebrate their dream destination wedding. This brochure serves as both a tool for the agent and a reference for the client.
It features articles on various cruise lines and ships, destinations, hotels, and prestigious itineraries. This magazine will inspire your clients. Prestige Magazine can be personalized with your logo. Thus, in addition to being informative, the magazine becomes an excellent marketing tool for your agency. The fact that the magazine is available in PDF format allows you to send it via the internet to clients in your database.
Offer your clients more with the TRAVELSAVERS VIP program. Who doesn’t love getting more, paying less, and traveling better? With the TRAVELSAVERS VIP (Value Incentive Program), your clients have access to exclusive promotions, upgrades, credits, and onboard discounts, as well as a dedicated area for group cruises on select departures, offering discounts and value-added amenities—all without having to assemble your own group. Best of all, the VIP program gives you a competitive edge to offer your clients more and close deals!
We’ve also negotiated with several of our cruise and travel suppliers to offer you exclusive benefits valid year-round. These benefits range from booking discounts to onboard credits. Often, these benefits can be combined with other special offers!
Every Tuesday, you will receive a newsletter containing all the news from the group, exclusive promotions, promotions with Travelsavers, etc.
Create a personalized flyer with your agency’s contact information and logo in just minutes. Several templates are available, depending on current promotions. You can even share your flyer directly on Facebook, via email, and through consumer leaflets.
Thanks to Gama Travel’s Single Destination Wedding Specialist Program, it’s easy for travel professionals to translate “I do” into more destination wedding sales. One of the most lucrative segments of the travel industry, destination weddings generate over $16 billion in annual revenue. With Gama Travel, agents can quickly become specialists in this growing niche and benefit from resources such as a branded agency website and a customized, mobile-optimized consumer website, ongoing marketing support, and exclusive, continuous training.
In addition to providing clients with beautiful websites that draw them to your business, we enable them to easily engage their family and friends through robust marketing opportunities. We provide ongoing training so you remain a subject matter expert and a trusted resource your clients can rely on. The centerpiece of this training is our unique destination wedding familiarization trips. Seeing is believing. With Atrium Group, you’ll have the chance to experience it firsthand so you can assure your clients that, yes, you’ve seen it.
Destinations by JOURNEYS is a destination-focused travel publication that will captivate your clients and make them dream about their next vacation! Every time your clients receive a copy of JOURNEYS, they will first see your agency’s name and details on the back cover, and they will then contact you to book their trip.
Every autumn, cruise ships call at Quebec City. Voyages Gama takes advantage of this opportunity to create an event where owners and agents can visit these ships while benefiting from training sessions given by representatives of the cruise lines.
Voyages Gama offers a range of exclusive cruise products at very competitive prices. Voyages Gama reserves a selection of cruises to the most popular destinations and dates, exclusively for the benefit of its members.
Each year, the Atrium Group publishes a client brochure featuring several hundred cruise groups organized by our agencies and preferred suppliers. All our agencies have the option of adding their own cruise groups to this brochure, allowing them to reach the widest possible audience. These brochures, distributed at over 300 kiosks across Quebec, are also provided to agencies, who can then help sell the featured groups or simply give the brochure to interested or curious clients.
Croisière magazine is the only French-language magazine dedicated to the cruise industry. It features articles on various cruise lines and ships, destinations, and the most popular itineraries. Croisière magazine can be customized with your logo. This makes the magazine not only informative but also an excellent marketing tool for your agency. The fact that the magazine is available in PDF format allows you to send it online to clients in your database.
Notre base de données croisière possède des informations extrêmement détaillées sur chacun des navires existants dans l’industrie de la croisière. Grâce à cette base de données, votre client, vos agents ou vous-même pourrez accéder à toutes les informations requises en ce qui a trait aux différents navires que possèdent les multiples compagnies de croisières.
These informative capsules, approximately 10 minutes each, are primarily used to provide information to the customer on various cruise situations, ships, or frequently asked questions.
A two-day cruise sales event is being held at the Cosmodome. Our major cruise suppliers are on hand to give client presentations, and several of our members are participating by handling bookings, allowing them to both acquire new clients and benefit from a share of the profits proportional to their involvement.
Voyages Gama has a very different vision from other franchisors. Unlike other franchisors, we don’t base royalties on a percentage of monthly revenue. Instead, we establish a fixed monthly cost, regardless of the agency’s annual revenue.
For only $350 per month with a four (4) year contract, you will have access to all the technological tools, support and benefits detailed in this document, with a few exceptions, in addition to joining a franchisor with over 25 years of experience who keeps abreast of new developments, listens to the needs of its franchisees and is at the forefront of technology.
