Audley Travel’s head of Latin America, Mark Garrett, told delegates at Experience Latin America in London last week the operator was currently experiencing unprecedented demand for the continent.
“We have 25,000 repeat clients and, this year, 25% of them have organically asked us for Latin America; it’s very high on consumers’ radar,” he said.
Garrett added the increasing popularity of Latin America with backpackers and gap-year travellers, in preference to south-east Asia, was in turn encouraging their parents to visit the region and making it easier to recruit sales consultants who have travelled extensively there.
