ASTA Brief Puts Hard Numbers on What Advisors Already Knew: NCFs Are Quietly Gutting Commissions

That 15% commission rate on a cruise booking? It’s probably closer to 11.7% in practice — and has been for years.

A new industry brief published this month by the American Society of Travel Advisors puts fresh data behind one of the travel trade’s most persistent grievances, offering a detailed accounting of how non-commissionable fares have steadily eroded advisor earnings across the cruise sector — and, to varying degrees, across hotels, airlines, and tour operators as well.

The findings aren’t exactly a revelation for advisors who’ve watched their effective commission rates get whittled down through increasingly creative NCF designations.

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