Trade Secrets After Dark: Travel advisor advocacy, travel mishaps and favorite cocktail recipes

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Welcome to Trade Secrets After Dark, a new series from Trade Secrets co-hosts Emma Weissmann and Jamie Biesiada. While the Trade Secrets Tech Summit is still ongoing, enjoy the occasional "After Dark" episode, featuring casual chats -- and drinks -- with guests from around the travel industry. 

This week, ASTA's vice president of advocacy, Jessica Klement, joins the show. Find out her beverage of choice, hear a cautionary travel tale and learn all about ASTA's advocacy efforts (plus, get the ins and outs of lobbying; it isn't about coyly passing out money to congressional staffers in a Washington, D.C. alleyway -- that's illegal!).

This episode was sponsored by National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions.

Further resources

ASTA on the web

Email Jessica Klement

Mentioned on this episode

• "Maybe You Should Talk To Someone" by Lori Gottlieb
• From Travel Weekly: Nebraska decides not to charge sales tax that would have hurt travel advisors
• From Travel Weekly: ASTA lauds two measures in Trump's Big Beautiful Bill
• From Travel Weekly: Congress members request repeal of refund rule affecting travel advisors

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Sweeter Vermouth by Kevin MacLeod
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