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Ex-Tui agent and partner make jump onto the high street
Holiday Franchise Company franchisee MBK Travels was opened last week by Paul McLeod and Kelly Hall, becoming the business’s first franchisees to set up on the high street
More than a third of Brits booking their holidays with agents, new data reveals
Travel Counsellors research finds more than a third of consumers turned to travel agents in the past 12 months, with higher income households more likely to do so
Jet2holidays to launch new-look fam programme Destination Discoveries
Airline and operator confirms some rebranded trips will depart before the end of the year
USAirtours creates travel agent steering panel following trade feedback
Former Scottish Passenger Agents’ Association president Ken McLeod will chair the panel
Travel Counsellor makes £600,000+ sales in single month
Carl Breton was among 68 Travel Counsellors who celebrated their best ever sales months in September
A&K Travel Group bolsters UK team with new trade sales chief
Jennifer Charlton joins the luxury travel company from American Express Global Business Travel
Former Thomas Cook comms boss takes up Advantage PR chief role
Advantage Travel Partnership appoints Alexis Coles Barrasso as its new PR and corporate affairs chief after playing a key role in Advantage’s UK outbound travel lobby effort
Hays regional sales managers walk 360 miles to support young people’s mental health
Division sales manager Graeme Tolchard said the message put out by Young Minds “strongly resonates” with Hays’s ethos
Cunard sales chief lays bare capacity challenge ahead of Queen Anne's launch
EMEA sales boss Angus Struthers stressed the importance of travel agents as the line looks to find new passengers
TTNG acquires London-based Abbotts Travel as owner retires
The acquisition brings the number of branches within TTNG’s retail arm to 19
Hurtigruten targeting 'household name' status after triple Travel Industry Awards honour
Hurtigruten’s Ant Daniels tells TTG about a series of changes at the company designed to boost awareness of the brand after the line triumphed at the recent Travel Industry Awards by TTG
Riverside Luxury Cruises and Seaside Collection appoint new UK managing director
Charlie Hewitt Davies joins the brands from high-end luxury tour operator Eden Luxury Travel
TTG launches third Travel Agent Tracker survey of the year
Latest survey, covering trading in the third-quarter of the year (three months to 30 September), will go out via email on Monday 2 October
Game of Thrones actor to voice Riviera Travel's 40th anniversary campaign
The new adverts will run on ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, Sky TV, Classic FM and LBC, with further trade activity to be rolled out over the coming year
Hays Travel expands Big Thank You rewards to seven monthly winners
Dame Irene Hays said on Thursday (28 September) she hoped staff members enjoyed “the additional money in the run up to Christmas”
Agency worth £30 million switches consortium for rival
Inspire Group has joined The Advantage Travel Partnership with immediate effect after more than a decade with the Travel Network Group
Quark Expeditions bolsters trade sales team with Becky Francis hire
Francis joins the expedition line from TTC Tour Brands, while US-based Beth Mercier has been named senior director of global partnership sales at Quark
Oceania Cruises to target 'subset' of agents in push for more UK business
Jason Worth told TTG the UK and Ireland had become the line’s top international market outside North America
'Watch this space': Agency boss marks 10th anniversary with expansion pledge
Norma Fenwick launched her business in her bedroom in 2013, but soon realised she needed to open a bricks-and-mortar shop
HAL's UK chief Karen Farndell hints at larger fam programme next year
Karen Farndell, who joined HAL from Princess Cruises a year ago, told TTG this year’s educationals had given the line ’confidence’ to expand the offering
Holly Brown appointed BDM at InsideJapan and InsideAsia
Inside Travel Group said Brown had ‘vast’ travel and sales experience in Japan, South Korea and other south-east Asian destinations
Cunard axes Shine points spending tiers in bid to help agents take more cruises
The line has launched a calculator that enables agents to work out the remaining balance of their holiday
Clia reveals first details of ‘biggest-ever’ conference for 2024
The trade body will host hundreds of agents at the conference, which will run over 23-25 May
The Ukrainian mum desperate to restart her travel agent career in the UK
Iryna Palokha arrived in the UK last year after fleeing her war-torn homeland with her son Zhenya