Chris, What is the Verified Travel Consultant (VTC) Program?
The Verified Travel Consultant Program (VTC Program) is an ARC participation program that was created to meet the needs of those travel agents who have shifted their business model away from issuing tickets (air/rail), by allowing these travel agents to sustain their identity in the industry with their Agency Code Number or ACN (also known as their ARC number). The VTC Program is also designed to provide recognition, in the form of an ARC number, to those home based and independent travel agents interested in establishing relationships with the travel suppliers to further solidify their position in the industry. In addition to the ARC number, VTCs have the opportunity to take advantage and benefit from many products and services to help them build their business, including commissionable products such as ARC MarketPlace and the prepaid ARC Travel MasterCard. Since the ARC number is the product of the ARC VTC Program, there is no requirement to maintain a membership in order to retain a
