Business advice

How to maximise VAT savings during the Covid-19 crisis

Vatnav director Laura Chipp explores how travel companies can defer their VAT payments and ensure cash flow as the coronavirus crisis bites

Travel Counsellors' Steve Byrne to feature in TTG's Face to Face interview

Chief executive of the homeworking giant will discuss how the business has navigated the coronavirus crisis, and offer tips on what else businesses can do to survive

Tips to help you get organised while working from home

Agents who aren’t used to working from home might find it tricky to plan and structure their day during lockdown. We spoke to business coach Erica Wolfe-Murray for her tips on getting organised when working from home.

How to stop coronavirus affecting your sleep: an expert's tips

In these strange and uncertain times, many in the travel industry will be struggling with their sleep. Kathryn Pinkham, CBT expert and founder of the Insomnia Clinic, offers her tips for improving sleep during the coronavirus crisis.

Catch up with TTG's virtual Keep Your Business Alive seminar

What can you do to best see your business through the coronavirus crisis? We asked a range of industry experts to touch in the key considerations facing the travel sector

Ginger Juice to host free social media webinar

There are already 70 trade, BDM and sales representatives signed up for the Ginger Juice session tomorrow (15 April) at 10am via Zoom.

It will cover topics such as how to sell a brand, promote a product using social media and create great content.

Attendees can also get advice on tools, advertising and strategy.

Bruce Martin, managing director of Ginger Juice, said: “This will be a fun, interactive webinar for all the hard working travel sales teams out there and will hopefully get people inspired and primed for when things pick up again.

Jonathan Wall: Keeping your business alive

Keeping your business alive is just one of many challenges facing travel companies in the current climate. Jonathan Wall, MD of accountancy firm Elman Wall offers top accounting advice for businesses with furloughed staff – and gives tips on keeping your business active over the coming months

Retaining travel clients during the Covid-19 lockdown

You might not be able to talk to clients physically during the nationwide lockdown, but there are many other ways to keep in touch with customers over the coming weeks. Social media experts Bruce Martin, managing director of Ginger Juice and Oli Yeates, chief executive of Clicky Media, offer key advice to make sure travel businesses are ready for the upturn

Abta CEO Mark Tanzer, travel agent Phil Nuttall and lawyer Farina Azam examine the travel landscape

Industry experts address the challenges facing the sector, what the government is doing about it, and what else needs to happen for the travel industry to survive the current crisis

TTG's third Agent Matters panel places cruise in spotlight

In our third weekly Agent Matters with TTG programme, we speak to three retailers about the cruise sector - joined by Fred.Olsen Travel’s head of commercial Paul Hardwick, Mundy Cruising’s MD Edwina Lonsdale, and Tour America & Cruise Holidays’s MD Mary McKenna

TTG launches weekly Travel Agent Tracker survey

New weekly survey of travel agents across the UK and Ireland set to chart the effect of the coronavirus crisis on the travel trade

Covid-19 crisis chance for trade to ‘reboot’ cash flow

TTG’s virtual Keep Your Business Alive seminar panelists predicted what will come from the coronavirus crisis

Pippa Jacks: 'Sensitive travel marketing could bring lockdown relief'

Some customers might need the chance to look ahead, be inspired and dream about future travel plans

Examining the state of the travel industry during Covid-19

The first session of the TTG Virtual Seminar was a state of the industry report from Martin Alcock, director of The Travel Trade Consultancy, as he examines the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the UK and Ireland travel industry

Royal Caribbean boss: 'Get prepared for the return of cruise'

Richard Fain stood by his conviction that the "slow return" of cruise is coming

How hosting a virtual networking group can benefit your business during the coronavirus crisis

When Not Just Travel agent Lee Trowbridge launched his networking group for local businesses in January, he never thought two months later he’d be hosting a virtual version that’s proven just as productive

How to look after your mental health during the coronavirus crisis

In this turbulent time it’s more important than ever to look after your mental health. Charlotte Flach speaks to experts for their tips on how to cope during this challenging time

Advantage urges industry to 'avoid surprises' with forecasts

"It will help identify any specific cash issues that may crop up in the future"

A banking expert answers your frequently asked questions about CIBLS

Phil Brown, head of travel and leisure at NatWest, answers questions about the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme and offers tips for creating a sound business proposal for a loan.

Agent Matters episode 2

Pippa Jacks talks with Richard Dixon, Katrina Smith and Martin Owens

Virtual fam trips you can take from your living room

Virtual fam trips are a great way to brush up on your destination knowledge during the Covid-19 lockdown. We look at some of the options

Protected Trust Services reports surge in demand

It has created a new Covid-19 Recovery Package

Steve Endacott: 'Small and medium-sized business must save themselves'

‘Use your time wisely; it costs nothing, and can save a lot of money when the rebound comes. Start thinking and planning now’

How to manage cash flow during the coronavirus crisis

Creating a cash flow forecast can help agents analyse their costs and decide where to make cutbacks, says David Moon, head of business development at Advantage Travel Partnership.