Trade Secrets After Dark: Travel advisor advocacy, travel mishaps and favorite cocktail recipes (Feat. ASTA’s Jessica Klement)

Welcome to Trade Secrets After Dark, a new series from Trade Secrets co-hosts Emma Weissmann and Jamie Biesiada. While the Trade Secrets Tech Summit is still ongoing, enjoy the occasional “After Dark” episode, featuring casual chats — and drinks — with guests from around the travel industry. This week, ASTA’s vice president of advocacy, Jessica Klement, joins the show. Find out her beverage of choice, hear a cautionary travel tale and learn all about ASTA’s advocacy efforts (plus, get the ins and outs of lobbying; it isn’t about coyly passing out money to congressional staffers in a Washington, D.C. alleyway — that’s illegal!). This episode was sponsored by National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions. Further resources ASTA on the web Email Jessica Klement Mentioned on this episode: “Maybe You Should Talk To Someone” by Lori Gottlieb From Travel Weekly: Nebraska decides not to charge sales tax that would have hurt travel advisors From Travel Weekly: ASTA lauds two measures in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill From Travel Weekly: Congress members request repeal of refund rule affecting travel advisors Get in touch! Email us: [email protected]   Theme song: "Sweeter Vermouth" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.