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In the season finale of Trade Secrets, co-hosts Jamie Biesiada and Emma Weissmann share their top 25 travel predictions for 2025, covering everything from trends in the travel agency and tech landscape to destinations and travel styles they have their eyes on for the coming year. They also share some exciting news – Trade Secrets recently took home an award for Best Travel/Leisure Podcast in the annual Eddie and Ozzie Awards!
Note: The sixth season of Trade Secrets will debut in early 2025.
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Resources Mentioned in This Episode and Related Reading
From TravelAge West:
The Top 5 Trends for 2025
This Cruise Expert Reached $3 Million in Annual Sales Using TikTok
From Travel Weekly:
Women-Only Tours: A Niche That Is Going Mainstream
Summer of the Destination ‘Dupes’
A Host of Problems
Host Agency Reviews’ Travel Agency Software Profiles
Tern
Approach Guides
Universal's Epic Universe
The new autonomous wheelchairs at Miami Airport
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About Your Hosts
Emma Weissmann is the Executive Editor of TravelAge West, a print and online magazine for travel advisors based in the Western U.S. She is also the host of the Humans of Travel podcast, where she interviews notable individuals in the travel industry about their lives — the highs and lows that make them human.
Jamie Biesiada is a Senior Editor with Travel Weekly. She is an award-winning journalist, including being named the American Society of Travel Advisors’ 2019 Travel Journalist of the Year. Her roots are in community journalism, where she was the editor of several local newspapers and a regional entertainment magazine.
About the Show
Trade Secrets, an award-winning podcast from the editors of Travel Weekly and TravelAge West, is where travel advisors ask — and answer — questions. On each podcast, our editors will ask a veteran travel industry insider to join them and field listeners’ questions. Topics will range from business advice to industry trends, history and more — as long as it’s travel-related, we want to address it! Find Trade Secrets wherever you get your podcasts, or at www.travelagewest.com/podcasts/trade-secrets.
