It's that time of year again, time for us to look back on the past year in client journeys experienced with us. The destinations explored and more.
First we are happy to find we met 100% Client Capacity for 2025 between Oct/Nov. Something we increased from 2024. We also had our best agency production year in 2025, we beat 2024, and while 2023 was our best year so far, we grew 15% over 2023 in 2025. Therefore 2025 was an incredible year at Mr. Travel Agent. We are ending the year very excited and motivated going into 2026.
The year saw clients travel to 30+ countries and destinations within those countries, in addition to land travels, we saw clients cruise on luxury cruise in South East Asia, and numerous clients sail on 6 different luxury cruise lines on sailings out of the US & European ports.
The year saw 90+ journeys consisting of over 270 clients come through Mr. Travel Agent for their travels.
Countries we saw clients travels to included:
- Africa: Tanzania & Morocco
- Asia: Japan, Vietnam & Cambodia
- Caribbean: St. Thomas, Punta Cana, St. Martin, St. Barts & Bermuda
- Central America: Costa Rica
- Cruises: Silversea, AMA Waterways (River), Celebrity, Explora Journeys, Crystal & Regent Seven Seas
- Europe: Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Croatia, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemboug, Austria, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Ireland, Monaco, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, Germany & Malta.
- UK: Britian & Scotland
- Also: Domestic US Destinations, and Hawaii + Canada
Yet again in 2025, Italy was the best destination with 27% of our clients travels either in Italy, including Italian ports in sailings, or including Italy in part of curated land trips in Europe/UK. 2nd was the Caribbean Islands, which always come in strong being they includes the entire Caribbean and Caribbean Cruises overall. If we were to individually count each of the islands, the Caribbean would fall out of the Top 5.
- Italy
- Caribbean
- France
- Britain
- Ireland
Ireland gets special recognition in 2025 due to the Pittsburgh Steelers playing the NFL Dublin game this year, bringing in larger client interest in Ireland this year. If we were to omit Ireland in this case, Greece & Spain would've likely overtaken Ireland in 2025.
We don't always get a chance to send clients to every high interest country on the globe in a year, and looking back we see we didn't touch on South America, Australia, New Zeland, exotic South Pacific this year (which all are already client bookings for 2026), we didn't get to book anyone on an Alaskan cruise nor land itinerary. We crave to see a client cruise on Ritz Carlton Yacht Collection, maybe we will get one or two in 2026.
The year saw $2,000,000.00 in sales come throught Mr. Travel Agent. The highest sales volume ever to go along with our most productive year. Exceeding sales volume from 2023 by $250,000, (approx 15%), and blowing away 2024 sales volume by $500,000+, (approx 25%). As we continue to grow our clientele base, bringing loyal clientele into our loyalty programs such as VIP Club, and ELITE. Our concerns for a potential global economic downturn in 2025 end up to have been unfounded. Along with 30% of our 2026 Client Capacity (based on 2025), already under reservation/onboarding, 2026 is already looking at strong demand.
Some simple math on that equates the average client expenditure of approx $22,000.00 in 2025. While that is a rough average, it depends on the type of vacation, and how many are traveling on a said vacation. We could be handling a couple to the Caribbean for $5-10K+, it could be a cruise couple for $10-15K+, it could be a couple going to Europe at 20-25K+, or a family for 30-40K+, or an extended family for even more. We also take care of higher end clients that maybe a couple alone spends 30-40K+ on a vacation. It varies, and we hold no minimum client cost requirements, so long as budgets are realistic and in line with what things are going to cost.
2025 saw approx 20% of client trips fall under ELITE Membership, & we are extremely happy to see that.
With the success of ELITE after two years starting to been seen, we are enhancing ELITE going into 2026, we have designed agency merch, and a modern smart exclusive metal NFC Membership card, that will be included in ELITE in early 2026. This merch includes custom designed Mr. Travel Agent leather lux luggage tags and passport cases. We created our own custom shipping boxes to ship this merch. Adding more inclusive benefits to ELITE. The name grows, the brand grows. Do we have visions of being the next Liberty Travel? no, far from it. We cater to a collection of new/loyal clientele that want to work with an intimate boutique luxury small agency, that caters to your travel needs/goals/desires. We want to be accessible to our clients easily, we strive for professialism, expertise and perfection or as near to it as possible, if not exceeding expections of us.
A LOOK AHEAD?
2026 will so far see clients going to Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, St. Martin, Anguilla, Bahamas, D. Republic, Japan, Italy, France, Croatia, Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Turks & Caicos, South Africa. We have clients set to sail on the Danube River, The Med. Sea, The Caribbean, around The British Isles, North Sea/Atlantic Ocean & the horn of South America. These include cruises on AMA Waterways, Celebrity, Viking Ocean Cruises, Crystal Cruises & Seabourn. & Clients will enjoy a luxury Safari in Kruger. 2026 already consist of 82 clients scheduled for travel.
Here at Mr. Travel Agent, we are considering hiring our first independent advisors and social media influencers in early 2026. If you have any interest in joining us, contact us to discuss, we will have the postings up in the coming weeks, but are happy to consider interested parties now before we proceed with making positions open to public consideration.
Mr. Travel Agent is a luxury travel agency, that is passionate about our clients travels and our own professional success. We want like minded indiviuals who share this passion for travel, and are looking for a side hustle they enjoy, or are savvy on social media and want to be rewarded to help grow our social media reach.
We just launched Exclusive Client Access, which will allow clients to book their own hotels and search the best vendors in the industry right here on mrtravelagent.net this newly launched access in late 2025 is secure and can only be granted to onboarded clients. To make Client Access available to web clients who are just looking for simple luxury hotel bookings including our preferred benefits, we created a type of client called an E-Client. An E-Client still needs to complete a simple onboarding to be given access, but if they do not need/desire Advisor Services for a complex itinerary or vacation, then they can avoid such curation services and the cost involved, should they perfer it. Though we will always be here to assist clients, and bring on Advisor Services at additional costs should they be needed.
We are excited for 2026, and the potential to grow our identity & reach to the public, along with like mind client referrals. Mr. Travel Agent is not going anywhere for years to come, we will be here to curate your incredible worldwide journeys. You are in good hands with Mr. Travel Agent, and we can't wait to be of service to you. Consider retaining Mr. Travel Agent as your Luxury Travel Agency/guru, expert of choice for your travels in 2026 & beyond.
Sincerely,
Owner/Founder
Derek Schemonitz
