In the spirit of U.S. politics, let’s have some fun for a minute and imagine you’ve just received an email enquiry from the President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald J. Trump.
He has a U.S. phone number and he lists his home city as New York, so you’re pretty sure he’s the real deal. And he wants to go to Europe for a week.
How would YOU sell to this multi-billion dollar tycoon?
Here’s three tips that we think would help you bag what could quite possibly be the biggest booking ever of your travel agent career.
1. Donald doesn’t like the wind.
Make sure you pick your seasons properly when you’re dealing with Mr Trump – and if you can, try and play mother nature and pick the right weather for his European vacation, too (travel agents can do this, no?).
The last thing you’d want to do is to send him to a windy destination where his tupee might fly off with the wind.
That would be very bad, and there’s just no way you’d score him as a repeat client if you did that…
1. Donald LOVES gold.
In case you didn’t already know, Donald Trump is totally obsessed with gold. He loves it so much, in fact, that the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Las Vegas is covered in 24-carat gold-coated glass.
He even has a gold-plated plane – obsessed much?
Which makes us think that he’d probably request a few gold items in his room, such as gold plated shower heads, gilded cutlery and a shiny gold remote control.
Sort this out for him before he arrives, and you’re in with a fighting chance of bagging him as a client for life…
3. Don’t put Donald on Emirates, Etihad, or Qatar.
It’s no secret that Mr Trump doesn’t think much of the Middle East. He thinks the whole region is populated with naughty people, except for Israel and perhaps Saudi Arabia – oh, how ol’ Trumpy boy loves to do business with the Saudis!
And we all know his proposal to ban Muslims from even entering the United States…
So that means you won’t be able to put him on any Middle Eastern airline, except perhaps Saudi Arabian Airlines (who happen to fly one of the longest routes in the world, by the way).
He is a patriot though, so maybe a First Class ticket on American Airlines from JFK to LON may be best suited.
Just don’t tell Trump that unlike Etihad’s First Class cabins, there isn’t any gold-plated cutlery when flying First Class with AA – yet!
So, think YOU can sell to Mr Trump?
You better do a good job, lest you be…
…FIRED!
