What makes Accent best able to handle your travel?
Top-Notch Affiliations
Our clients choose Accent Travel because of our exceptional agents. They also choose us because we provide a high-level of professional services.
Accent Travel International is a full-service accredited agency, which means we are authorized to book on all the major carriers and suppliers, and have held this privilege since 1980.
Accent proudly partners with the leading service providers and companies in the travel industry. We pick the best so we can help travelers in the best ways possible. We also belong and support travel organizations that are essential to our understanding travel which we pass along to our customers.
Since our beginning, Accent Travel has been a member of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA), the professional association of the travel agency industry. ASTA has always been a strong advocate for the consumer, recognizing the need to protect travelers from supplier abuse or carelessness, as well as supporting it’s members.
As the largest and most celebrated Travel Agent group in North America, Travel Leaders allows Accent Travel to tap every resource and supplier so if you have questions, we have the answers. Through Travel Leaders, we have better access to suppliers like cruiselines and tour companies, along with higher potential savings for our customers.
Accent Travel is the exclusive branch of Tzell Travel for Minnesota. Tzell travel has 126 offices across twenty-five states and is the largest corporate travel group in the country. Tzell is able through it’s size to leverage the best relationships and rates with corporate providers so we can provide the best pricing and services available to our corporate clients.
Accent Travel provides Concur Travel. Concur is an online booking tool (OBT) so travelers can book on their own. Concur is without compare the largest and most experienced OBT. It has it’s own expense tracking. It is connected with other travel apps like Uber and Tripit. And it is seamless with our systems. We can set this up for you and show you all the features available.
Accent Travel uses Trams by Sabre for it’s back-of-house accounting software. Trams is by far the most industry-recognized accounting program, which means that we are more organized and better prepared to handle any billing, invoicing, or payment issues that may arise. Trams also allows us to get our accounts reports and copies of travel docs for any time period.
Travelport offers us Worldspan, a “Matrix-like” GDS which allows us to connect to all the many vendors like airlines and hotels and car rental agencies to get up to the minute real-time rates and fares. Through Travelport, we have access to tools like Power Pricing and Low Fare Finder, that allows us to ensure the traveler is getting the best price available.
Only a select few agencies are part of Delta’s Preferred Agency Group. Accent Travel has for years had a special relationship with Delta and Delta Vacations. As a Preferred Agency, Accent can help it’s travelers in circumstances beyond their control. Also for companies, we can enroll and manage your company Sky Bonus program.
As a National Car Emerald Club Agency, Accent Travel offers discounts and fee-waived memberships to corporate clients who do not qualify for volume discounts by themselves. We also have preferred pricing an upgrade options that we pass onto our travelers.
Accent is also a member of the consortium, THOR, the leading provider of negotiated hotel rates throughout the world in over 21,000 properties of 125 hotel chains in over 130 countries! These hotels range from low-cost economy hotels to the best luxury hotels and resorts. Now THOR Dynamic Rates are 5 - 15% off of the best available rate for any given day.
Accent Travel has partnered with Agent 24, who assists us in providing 24/7 emergency support to our travelers. Agent 24 has experienced agents on-call when our offices are closed who can assist you as it were our agents, and can also reach us when required.
Grasp Technologies is the leading provider of reports to the travel agency. With Grasp, Accent Travel can automatically generate practically any report you may need and email it to you, such as monthly travel reports for easy credit card reconciliation, or weekly batch invoice delivery.
Magnatech specializes in creating professional invoices and itineraries that travelers and companies can easily read and use. Magnatech also provides us with unused ticket tracking, so everyone knows what is outstanding and can be applied to any future bookings.