Top Supplier Sales Reps

April 24, 2012 By: Meagan Drillinger, Jena Tesse Fox, Adam Leposa, C. Elliott Mest, Joe Pike Travel Agent

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A travel advisor’s job would be even more challenging than it already is without the insight and support of sales representatives from the various industry companies that you use when booking a trip. We asked you, our readers, to pick the ones you feel are the best in the business. All nominees were written in; all we supplied were the categories. Here, gleaned the hundreds of responses we received, are your choices for top supplier sales reps of 2012.

 

Kelly Corbett

OCEAN CRUISING

FIRST PLACE
Kelly Corbett
Royal Caribbean International
Business Development Manager, Northeast Region
Kelly Corbett has worked in the travel industry for nearly 20 years, and fell in love with cruising on her first trip on the Song of Norway. “I made a personal goal that someday I would work for Royal Caribbean,” she says. Fifteen years later, she was offered the position of business development manager for the line, and today, she covers half of Connecticut, Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. Corbett attributes her success to her motivation and her genuine enjoyment of the job. “It is derived from the opportunity offered to me to make a difference in helping to grow my agents’ business,” she says. “It’s a true partnership, since we work together to expand both of our businesses and can’t do it without each other.”

 

 

Louise Habrack

SECOND PLACE
Louise Habrack

Royal Caribbean International
Business Development Manager, Northeast Region
Louise Habrack began her work in the travel industry 35 years ago, working for the airline and cruise sectors focusing on customer service and sales and marketing management. She has held her position as the Northeast strategic business development manager and business development manager of New Jersey and New York since 2007. In her position, she has built relationships with major nationwide corporations, associations, travel management companies and leisure travel partners to increase revenues and sales goals and improve productivity. Habrack credits her success within the company to her passion for the business, attention to her partners’ priorities and a “softer hint of humor.”

 

 

 

Robert Tolster

THIRD PLACE
Robert Tolster
Royal Caribbean International
Business Development Manager, Northeast Region
Robert Tolster took his first cruise in 2002 and was hooked from the start. “Is there any other way to vacation?” he asks rhetorically. He decided that if an opportunity to work for a cruise company ever came his way, he’d seize it. By 2004, he was working for Royal Caribbean in the Groups Department. From there, Tolster moved to the sales support team supporting the Northeast Region and later strategic accounts before accepting the position of business development manager for Long Island, N.Y., in 2007. “My success stems from not only my desire to succeed and to make a difference, but also from the immense respect I have for the travel agent community in my territory,” he says.

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