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AE Expeditions sales chief: 'We're taking a "less is more" approach to trade distribution'
Andrew Turner tells TTG cruise editor Harry Kemble about shaking up his role – and going for a ’less is more approach’ in terms of its trade distribution
New Global Travel Collection member to use personal image to promote travel advisory
Black Voyage founders say their brand’s personable image is already proving integral to its success
Savile Row Travel's new consortium targets agents who no longer work full time
Operator looks to recruit homeworkers for its Authentic Cruise Company brand
The agent with a sideline selling her teenage son's artisan pizzas
Travel Counsellor Sara Greene tells TTG about 14-year-old son Rocco’s side hustle and how the family enterprise has risen to success
InteleTravel explains decision to cut down Atol size
InteleTravel president James Ferrara has told TTG that only a small number of homeworkers can operate under InteleTravel’s Atol licence of 501 passengers
Intele agents' 'thirst to learn' driving homeworking giant to £200m sales target
President James Ferrara and UK managing director Tricia Handley-Hughes talk to TTG about everything InteleTravel, from the secret behind their success to what’s coming in 2025
Knightsbridge Circle’s new boss shares top priority ahead of expansion
Industry veteran Hannah Westaway joined the luxury concierge company in September
Illinois’ luxury hotels see business boost after Midwest campaign launch
The Midwestern state is making major investment in its luxury tourism offerings.
National newspapers to launch travel agency
The Times and The Sunday Times are recruiting for staff for new digital travel outlet
Ponant reveals plans to downsize ahead of move to ‘slow cruising’
The changes are part of the luxury cruise line’s commitment to becoming a zero-emissions company.
Luxury advisor's last-minute family booking advice after whirlwind trip
The luxury travel advisor pulled off a mammoth planning feat for a Sri Lanka trip in less than 10 days
Inghams reveals how it plans to celebrate its 90th anniversary with agents
Walking specialist to host fam trip and ’quirky’ roadshows to help agents get ’under the skin’ of its new product launching next year
Exodus Adventure Travels: ‘Why we ditched net positive from our nature commitment’
Exodus Adventure Travels has shifted its goals away from unachievable targets to funding real, impactful changes, explains Kasia Morgan, head of sustainability
Barrhead Travel chief: 'We're thriving in uncertain times'
TTG caught up with Barrhead Travel’s senior management team to discuss everything from next year’s peaks to why the business will always prioritise quality over quantity
Barrhead Travel brand ‘must evolve if it is to attract new customers’
‘We’ve got to evolve and modernise,’ Barrhead sales and marketing director Nicki Tempest-Mitchell tells TTG as the Scottish independent plans a 50th anniversary makeover
The Antarctica alternative agents needs to know about
A British tour operator is the only company operating private flights for leisure travellers to Antarctica and is boosting its trade presence
Riviera Travel targets further growth in trade sales with new e-learning platform
The new Riviera Explorer platform features brand updates, bite-sized training modules and selling kits for agents with different levels of experience to use
How a luxury advisor's £500 investment saved a near-disaster booking
The travel advisor says the investment in his luxury clients was ’entirely worth it’.
‘Impact washing is common among the privileged few in Africa’
Now with a portfolio of 18 safari camps, Beks Ndlovu has come a long way since starting out, when he struggled to attract visitors to Zimbabwe with Mugabe in power
Luxury advisor calls for industry action on 'non-professional' agents
Amanda Teale of Minerva Private Travel has urged the industry to introduce mandatory training for advisors.
Globus's Phil Shipman: 'River cruise is tricky for agents to grasp'
Phil Shipman tells TTG about his cruise education and why it is crucial that travel agents experience Avalon Waterways’ fleet otherwise they will struggle to understand the line’s product offering
Why Explora Journeys has the biggest culinary budget at sea
The luxury cruise line has one chef for every seven guests and its new culinary experience is making its debut on Explora II
‘Give us a go’: Tui ready to step up campaign to win over independent agents
The operator, Europe’s largest, has spent the past year persuading the trade to sell more of its holidays; TTG caught up with Tui’s Neil Swanson to find out how this effort is going
Princess Cruises chief John Padgett vows to make the line 'the best in the UK'
Princess president John Padgett and UK boss Eithne Williamson stressed the importance of fly-cruise bookings and how growing that side of the business would help the line gain a stronger foothold in the UK and Ireland