What Did We Do In Cancun?

If you read our end of the year article, you know 2016 has been a year of great beginnings in terms of putting Romania out there. Not only are we being tested to get on Wendy Perrin’s WOW list but we have already been accepted to the Traveller Made family.

I’ll soon tell you more about joining Traveller Made and how that benefits your travel experience. Now I want to share impressions and thoughts from the Wendy Perrin Global Travel Summit.

The Wendy Perrin Global Travel Summit, Cancun 2017

While January was wonderfully cold and snowy in Romania, it was not that difficult to escape it all for just 4 days and fly across the world to attend the meeting of some of the greatest people in travel, in Cancun, Mexico. While I can’t say I saw much of Cancun or Mexico (although I did have an additional half a day to watch the sun come up in Tulum, have breakfast by the beach and do some snorkeling in the Dos Ojos Cenote), I enjoyed every second of the trip.

The Summit is a yearly event where some of the TTEs (Trusted Travel Experts) who are already on Wendy’s list meet to exchange ideas, learn from each other, debate, and clearly, catch up and have fun. While not officially on the list yet, some of the travel experts being tested are also invited. If the rest felt like me, attending the summit made it even clearer that Wendy’s list is the place to be. In other words, I felt Romania belongs there, I felt we belong there.

Wendy speaking about the WOW List

But what’s the list and why does it matter that it exists?

There are many, many ways for travelers to decide on how to travel. That’s great but that’s also a pain.

How do you work through all the options? How do you find what’s right for you? The list makes that easy for you. It gives you the one person, the one contact you need to unlock unique experiences in almost every country in the world. If you genuinely care about your trips and you want them to be more than simple vacations, try any of the experts on the list next time you plan to go somewhere. Whether it’s something as little as a weekend trip to Paris or a whole month in Nepal…find the experts for these places and get in touch.

You actually don’t have to trust me. We’re still being testedJ Trust other travelers who have already tried the list. I can only tell you that for anyone to be on the list, receiving consistently excellent feedback from travelers is the only thing that matters to stay on the list.

How do our guests benefit from us being tested?

Firstly, to be considered is an achievement. It means that travelers have been happy with the way they got to see Romania when we showed them around. Secondly, being tested and then being on the list obliges us even more to keep up the good work.

And this is where meetings like the one in Cancun is great. Sharing with others how to best do this or that, makes your life better. When we learn from other business owners how to better interact with you or what other small things that we missed could make life so much better as you travel, you win, you get more value for the price you pay.

So what’s next?

Business as usual. We’re yet to receive enough travelers and get reviewed by them to make it on the list officially. Until that happens, we’re busy implementing some of the great ideas we got in Cancun but also working hard to get more of you to come and visit Romania. If you use the list to do it, even better; you contribute to our testing.