JUPITER, Fla. -- The Outside Sales Support Network, a trade
association for home-based and outside sales travel agents, said it
intends to add 15 chapters this year.
OSSN has 60 chapters in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Latin
America.
"The other trade association is cutting back, but we are moving
the other way," OSSN president Gary Fee said, referring to ASTA's
announced plans to reduce its number of chapters.
Fee told TravelWeekly.com that OSSN intends to open new chapters
in Wyoming and Mexico City, among other places, and is considering
establishing additional chapters in San Jose, Calif., and
Chicago.
The existing chapter in San Jose, one of several in California,
has some 300 members.
"That's a giant chapter," Fee said, while Chicago's unit has
more than 100 members. "We probably need three chapters there," Fee
said, to accommodate all of the agents interested in joining.