“This is for people who maybe don’t have their own database but want to work from home. We’d pay them a basic salary and then uncapped bonuses - exactly the same as staff in the shops and call centres.

“We’ve got a huge amount of calls coming in for these areas. We need people to come in and help us get back to everyone who is contacting us.”

Munro added that staff would not necessarily need to have worked in travel previously, but they would be required to have proven knowledge in the area they hoped to sell, including cruise, long-haul, luxury and Canadian markets, which have seen the biggest growth in enquiries.

“As long as they have travelled and have knowledge then we can train them,” she said.

“Telesales homeworkers will work in the same way as our agents in-store, but will be able to work flexible hours across seven days.”

Munro would not reveal how big she intended the new division to become, but said Barrhead had doubled its Canadian division in the past year and she was looking to repeat that success. Cruise has also grown 20% this year.

She added that Barrhead was also well ahead on forward bookings. Next summer’s forward business is up by 28% in revenues, while winter 2015-16 revenues are up by 26% following a 30% boost this year.