Beverley Travel puts pen to paper on second branch en route home from TTG Top 50 win

Hours later, as she travelled back across the Yorkshire Dales the next day with her team clutching another gong, Cheesman signed the contract to lease the award-winning agency’s second branch.

The new shop in the east Yorkshire town of Hedon will open on 1 June and is around half-an-hour’s drive from Beverley Travel’s existing shop in Beverley. “We literally signed the contract on the way back from the awards in Manchester,” Cheesman tells TTG.

“We only recently started talking about finding a second store. The unit was not advertised, but it had just been refurbished, and the landlord had put a sign up in the window.”

When asked what her and her fellow co-owner Karl Douglas were searching for, Cheesman explains: “We were looking for a high street shop as we’re all about shopping local, but we did not want to step on anyone’s toes. 

"Hedon has not had a travel agency since Hays Travel left last year.”