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Tony Mann: 'Don’t undercut the agency down the road'

High street
Tony Mann
18 February 2020

I woke up on 1 February – ding ding, round two. I was feeling slightly jaded.

High street agencies, homeworkers, tour operators and many other travel firms are bracing for a critical month (Credit: Matthew Feeney/Unsplash)

(Picture: Matthew Feeney/Unsplash)

Yes, the red wine had been opened the evening before. Like many of you I’m sure, the shop door had barely been locked before the celebrations marking a great January started – or just a toast thanking our lucky stars we’d made it to the end of what always feels like the longest month of the year.


We’ve been in this game long enough to know the industry is forever changing. Each year seems tougher and tougher – although that might just be my age.

Of course, many things that affect us are out of our control, but are we taking charge of the things we can control?


We can’t change the enquiry we all dread: “I can go any time, anywhere and I have no budget.”