Greg Uglow had never worked as a travel agent before. Yet six months after starting at Beverley Travel, he landed a £61,000 Africa booking all on his own, which prompted owner Karl Douglas to joke with him: “Where have you been hiding that one?”
So what support was in place to enable Greg to deliver one of the agency’s biggest-ever bookings so early in his employment?
Greg is a traveller – he set out in 2019 on what was meant to be a six-month round-the-world trip, which he kept extending. He met his partner while travelling, and when they were finally ready to come home, his home town of Beverley felt like the right place to put down some roots.
