Janine Marshall freely admits her detour into travel was something of a happy accident after her specialist green tea business became a victim of the pandemic.
Marshall had got her Matcha Now brand into upmarket retailers like Harrods, Whole Foods Market and M&S, but then Covid came. “Lockdown was quite a dark time for me,” she tells TTG.
However, a chat with a friend put InteleTravel on her radar. “I didn’t really join to sell travel, more for the discounts,” she says. “But I started doing some training, which lifted my state of mind. I began to think, ‘this could have legs’.”