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NTA ONLINE: YOUR ONLINE RESOURCE TO NTA AND FTA TOUR OPERATORS Your church leaders have decided it’s time to take some of your faithful on a journey to the Holy Land. Or maybe it’s a retreat, or perhaps your choir is performing around the region. Regardless of your plans, NTAonline.com is a resource for finding qualified travel professionals. As an NTA and FTA member, you can search among all tour operator members or filter your search to FTA operators only. It’s so easy to find the right company to meet your group’s needs. Begin by going to NTAonline.com, and you’ll immediately see two green search buttons. Depending on what you’re looking for, choose the applicable button, and you’re on your way. As you complete the search, take note that there’s an “FTA Only” check-box at the bottom of the information fields, just above the additional search filters. You can decide whether to compile a list of all companies or only FTA companies. When you hit the green search button at the bottom of the page, you’ll see a list that can be viewed or downloaded as an Excel document for printing. The list will show several types of contact information for each company, and you can arrange the information to fit your needs. DID YOU KNOW? • The annual income of all church members in the U.S. equals $42 trillion, of which evangelical Christians earn $7 trillion. (thetravelingteam.org/stats) • 6 million people visited Vatican City in 2014. (cruznow.com) • An estimated 3 to 5 million people flock to Temple Square in Salt Lake City each year, more than the combined number of visitors to all five of the Utah’s national parks. (visitsaltlake.com) • 3.3 million people visited Israel in 2014. (Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs) • Nearly 18 percent of Israel’s tourists—some 623,000—arrived from the United States. (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics) • Social media is one of the fastest growing tools to reach faith travelers. In a typical week, about one in five Americans share their faith online. ntaonline.com 21