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Simon Leeming named new cruise lead at Unforgettable Travel Company

In his new role, Simon Leeming will focus on offering year-round trips to around 5,000 existing cruise customers as well as new clients

NCL grows sales team with view to upping ex-UK deployment

The line’s regional vice-president Gary Anslow tells TTG the appointments ‘signalled’ how important agents are to the business

Yorkshire's Conexo Travel expands to second branch after year-long hunt for premises

Conexo Travel owner David Carruthers has recruited four staff to work in the agency’s new York shop

'People should travel flight-free because they want, not because they ought'

Byway founder and chief executive Cat Jones tells TTG about the slow travel specialist’s latest impact report and its ongoing mission to make flight-free travel mainstream

The trade show that helps boost business – and your wellbeing

Synergy – The Retreat Show connects travel advisors with wellness experts from all around the world.

Agent reveals highs and lows of planning ‘treacherous’ Point Nemo trip

Wanderlux’s Rebecca Puttock reveals how she helped her client achieve his goal of reaching the ultra-remote Point Nemo

AE Expeditions' sales chief expects UK market growth as fleet expands

David Tanguay, head of global sales, confirmed the UK and Irish market is among AE Expeditions’ top five markets and expects it to rise further

The Tooting agent celebrating 30 years in business

Skywings Travel, founded by a Sri Lankan immigrant in 1994, has weathered many storms to reach this milestone, says Aruna Jayathilake, head of sales

‘Becoming B Corp Certified will be a minimum standard in travel’

Not in the Guidebooks boss Carol Savage tells TTG about the latest milestone in the four-year journey and how travel agents remain the core of the operator’s growth plans

‘Europe's newest sleeper train made me feel like a child again’

TTG joined the inaugural service for a new sleeper train connecting Prague with Brussels, which adds an extra dimension to your clients’ European travels

Industry veteran returns to travel to lead new luxury agency brand

Prior to leaving the sector to take up a role at a property management firm, Dave Osborne had worked for Exsus Travel, Tui, Sunvil Holidays and RB Collection, among others

New women-only agents’ collective set to shake up industry with unapologetic ‘feminine energy’

Travel Sisterhood empowers female luxury travel agents by encouraging members to work together, rather than against one another.

How Tui is changing travel – one giant tub of Nutella at a time

Net zero by 2050? It’s undoubtedly going to be a huge task, especially for travel. But the Tui Blue Montafon is forging a path, one giant tub of Nutella at a time. Gary Noakes reports exclusively for TTG

From Tenerife to Bora Bora: my day with Barrhead at the height of peaks

TTG went Back to the Floor with Barrhead Travel in Glasgow’s Silverburn store to join the agency’s senior team for a taste of life on the travel agent frontline on the busiest day of Peaks 2024

Agent to start selling Jet2 after operator halts marine park sales

Travel Counsellor Marie Rowe told TTG she had long wanted to sell Jet2 products but its decision to sell marine parks with captive cetaceans had prevented her from promoting the airline and operator to customers

London agency to leave the high street after 25 'wonderful' years

Travel Matters founder Karen Simmonds told TTG her decision to transition to a remote model came in response to a decrease in footfall, as well as changing working patterns

Silversea global sales chief says new role will bring line closer to trade

Massimo Brancaleoni tells TTG his recently announced wider remit at the luxury cruise line will help drive revenue growth

Five reasons agents should get excited about selling river cruise this year

TTG cruise editor Harry Kemble headed to the Clia RiverView conference in Amsterdam this week for a river cruise temperature check, and to see what the sector has in store for the trade

This is how you completely reinvent Benidorm for your clients

It’s time to shake off any pre-conceived and outdated ideas about the Alicante resort, as Teresa Machan discovers during a late-autumn jaunt to this underrated destination.

'My body may be failing, but my mind is sharp – I’m proud to be a travel advisor'

Homeworking agent Anita Laurie, of Time To Go Travel in Thetford, now has a career that allows her to thrive despite her disability

TravelTime World marks 30 years of ‘punching above its weight’

After a couple of false starts, TravelTime World is preparing to mark another milestone anniversary. Agency director Ashley Quint tells Harry Kemble why the Berkhamsted business deserves to celebrate

Explore: ‘If you’re not B Corp Certified in our space, it’s a disadvantage’

Adventure specialist becomes latest travel business to obtain B Corp Certification after going through a rigorous process dating back to November 2021

Low pay is prompting agents to consider leaving the travel industry

A TTG survey has looked into the travel industry’s state of pay to reveal that more than a third of professionals are considering an alternative career as their pay is too low

Still serving at 70: the travel veterans who won't quit the industry they love

All are long-standing in the world of travel, despite falling into the industry by chance, or "making do" with being an agent after being told that 17 was “too young to work in an airline”, or making travel their mark in a career change. But the common theme among them is that they wouldn’t do anything else, and a career in the industry remains as fulfilling and remarkable as it did when they started out.