The secrets to smart travel from industry insider, Fiona Dalton

Everyone in their Prime Time wants to know the secrets to travelling well, getting great deals and having amazing, life changing experiences, don’t they.

Travel is something on almost every retirement bucket list, and everyone wants to know the secrets to travelling well, getting great deals and having amazing, life changing experiences, don’t they.

Today I chat with travel expert and industry insider Fiona Dalton for her top tips, tricks and secrets for travelling in our Prime Time.

Fiona Dalton has over 30 years of travel and tourism experience running some of the largest tour operators, river cruise brands and retailers in travel in Australia. She understands the travel industry inside out, and over the years, the prime timers have been her main customers, so she going to tell us the secrets.

Fiona has just stepped into her own Prime Time, kicking off a travelling ‘gap year’ so she’s got plenty of information to share.

Some highlights from our chat:

• Trying to understand what type of traveller you are.

• Unpicking what luxury travel is today - Why the definition of LUXURY travel is changing and becoming more accessible.

• The secrets of the travel sector for getting a good deal on your trip - understanding how to identify what a good deal is, which elements are most important to you.

• The alternatives to flying flat in business class. The way you can get around paying for business class if you’re cost-conscious and still arrive refreshed.

• How air travel works - and how to think about the routing of your air trips and stopovers.

• The currencies of both ‘frequent flier points’ and ‘status’ and how to think about and use both to get the best value from each.

• Touring versus independent travel, and understanding when you use each one.

• Thinking about the travel tribe you want to travel with.

• Solo supplement waivers and how they work in hotels, cruise lines, and coach tours. The economy of travel and how it works, and what we can do to access solo travel opportunities. And how you can get access to these deals.

• Two for one deals - how they really work. A message of caution.

• Dynamic inventory and dynamic pricing - how it works and how it moves in response to supply and demand.

• Fiona has just stepped back from her career into her own Prime Time and is about to set off on her own ‘grown up gap year’. She’s taking on ‘slow trip’. through Europe and she talks about her lessons planning this trip.

• Slow travel - the concept and the best time for slow travel.

• Shoulder season travel and how that’s changing in Europe.

• When you will get the best prices for travel you want to do.

• When are the important dates for Earlybird Season travel booking.

• Travel insurance - and the two important things you should know about it.

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