Why work with Ftm Travel?
Our caring, professional advisors walk through the planning process with you from initial consultation to departure day! High-attention service is our standard. We will keep you updated on dates, deadlines, current requirements, and more along the way!
Our Team members do what we love and love what we do. We don’t work on our cars, fix our gutters, or color our hair. We love planning vacations. We love to travel. So, where do you want to go?
Award Winning Service
FTM Travel is honored to be included in the University of Georgia Alumni Association’s 2021, 2020, and 2019 Bulldog 100 list of fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni. The Bulldog 100 includes businesses of all sizes and from all industries. Applicants are measured by their business’ compounded annual growth rate during a three-year period. FTM Travel earned the title of the 64th fastest growing business out of 533 applicants at the awards celebration held in Athens at the start of 2020!
Co-owner Christy Shadday attended the University of Georgia and graduated in 1993 with a degree in Early Childhood Education.
Award Winning Service
FTM Travel is honored to be included in the University of Georgia Alumni Association’s 2021, 2020, and 2019 Bulldog 100 list of fastest-growing businesses owned or operated by UGA alumni. The Bulldog 100 includes businesses of all sizes and from all industries. Applicants are measured by their business’ compounded annual growth rate during a three-year period. FTM Travel earned the title of the 64th fastest growing business out of 533 applicants at the awards celebration held in Athens at the start of 2020!
Co-owner Christy Shadday attended the University of Georgia and graduated in 1993 with a degree in Early Childhood Education.
Jami and Christy have been Fairy TripMothers for over 13 years! They have sprinkled pixie dust all over the US and beyond for thousands of happy families. Even Vogue.com knows that hiring Jami or Christy as your Fairy TripMother to write your Disney itinerary has always been in style.
FTM Travel is proud to be part of the Disney EarMarked Program. Our expertise in planning magical vacations and the service we provide our clients has earned us the special designation of Authorized Disney Vacation Planner early and we have retained that status every year! With our EarMarked status, we are invited to exclusive training events and educational opportunities all year long. Included are trips to destinations around the world, on land and sea, to increase our knowledge for you!
What is a U-Preferred agency? FTM Travel was invited to be a part of the inaugural year of Universal Orlando’s exclusive new program to recognize their top travel partners! We love Universal and the many opportunities they offer us to expand our knowledge with online and onsite training. We know more so we can help YOU more! See that logo? We have superb resources to keep us at the forefront of all things Universal.
FTM Travel is part of a passionate community of travel professionals focused on maintaining excellence in the industry. Travel Leaders Network brings together 5,700 of us to mutually work with luxury travel, cruises and tour suppliers. We are interested in working with the best of the best! Travel Leaders offers us-and you-that layer of security that the power of a group is always in your corner. We partner with the most comprehensive list of providers in travel. Preferred destination global partners offer us in-country representatives in Australia, Britain, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Mexico and more!
In 2019, Jami Hill attended their flagship event, Global Travel Marketplace, and is quoted on their homepage:
GTM is a spectacular, wonderfully-detailed, inspiring event. Every appointment, Boardroom presentation, networking reception, and thoughtful touch sent me home with an even more inspired passion for what I do. I am exploding with ideas for how to grow my business.
— Jami Hill, FTM Travel
Continuing education – all over the world!
We invest in our future success with diverse learning platforms. Jami and Christy provide the Team guest speakers, webinars, even in-person Agency meetings and site inspections (our favorite!) to keep us at the top of our game! When ‘travel advisor’ is your job description, travel is work and work is travel. The lines are blurred and the research never ends! We take advantage of every travel training opportunity we are offered as each is an investment in working with you in the future! Ocean cruises, Walt Disney World and Disneyland, Universal Orlando, and even several Adventures by Disney bucket list trips make up our huge onsite training portfolio.