Consortia

Priti Patel pledges to raise issues facing agents in parliament following visit to TMC

Former home secretary Patel met with the team at Essex-based TMC Inntel Travel as part of the Advantage Travel Partnership’s ongoing MP engagement programme

Hays Travel promotes Cherie Richards to newly-created role

Hays Travel gives Cherie Richards an expanded brief and new job title

Agents investing in their business in anticipation of record demand for their services

Advantage Travel Partnership members have benefited from an influx of new customers this year, and are investing in their businesses as demand grows anew for agents’ services

Travel boss to ‘keep outbound high on agenda’ at tourism minister meeting

Advantage’s Julia Lo Bue-Said has called on the industry to utilise the return of MPs to Parliament this week and keep up political lobbying

‘Our summer sales have been the latest I’ve ever seen’

Advantage Travel Partnership says 2023 summer booking patterns were a blip and early booking is now back

School's out for summer: should travel push for earlier term finishes to beat the European heat?

Should government look to change timings of school summer holidays as extreme hot weather across Europe could herald a shift in travel habits?

Airlines urged to improve communication with agents following ATC delays

After an ATC system glitch caused flight cancellations and severe delays across the UK on Monday (28 August), chief executive of the Advantage Travel Partnership Julia Lo Bue-Said said it was "critical" airlines remain in close contact not only with their customers, but also travel agents and tour operators.

ITAA elects Frosch Ireland boss Angela Walsh as new president

The appointment was welcomed by Clare Dunne, who was recently appointed as the association’s chief executive

Ross Fagan joins Hays Tour Operating as trade engagement partner

Fagan will focus on increasing HTOL’s visibility, and engaging agent partners across the wider network, including Hays franchisees and its independence group members

Are independent agents ready to take Tui back?

After Tui revealed plans to expand its trade engagement team, are agents ready to forgive and forget?

Hays IG welcomes three new members and plots further expansion

The new members join more than 100 other independent travel companies in the Hays Travel consortia

Advantage to help members recruit 50 new apprentices over next year

The programme was launched on Thursday (17 August) and is available to all Advantage members

Value message critical as ski market returns to ‘familiar patterns’

Higher prices aren’t putting winter sports enthusiasts off booking for this winter, although ’value’ is proving critical to conversions, agents and operators tell TTG

Why it's time to spring clean your marketing... in August

Don’t leave it late, marketing chief Andrew Shelton urges agents in second We Are Llama column for TTG – or risk not being ready for the rush

Can agents start to draw a line under the Covid crisis yet?

The pandemic was a once-on-a-lifetime shock for travel – so three-and-a-half years after the world was plunged into lockdown, is travel ready to move on? And up?

Spend with agents rebounds in July following ‘significant’ dip in June

Airlines also saw a sharp rise in spending growth, with transactions up 35.4% month-on-month in July

Royal Caribbean to reshape trade strategy ahead of Icon and Utopia launches

Director of sales Stuart Byron tells TTG the line will reshape its agent programme to fit the needs of the trade in a post-Covid world

Advantage appoints Adam Weatherby to newly created partnerships role

Weatherby, who moves from bed bank Ratehawk, will take up the role of partnerships manager

'Chargebacks are here to stay; agents must learn to manage them'

’What started as a method of obtaining a cash refund appears to become muscle memory for travellers seeking a quick and easy way to get their cash back without going through traditional processes,’ writes Outpayce’s Tania Platt for TTG

Travel continuing to defy economic pressures following fourfold increase in lates

Chief executive Julia Lo Bue-Said claimed Brits are continuing to use their money for travel over other discretionary spending

Jet2holidays reveals venue for annual agent conference

The bash will be held in Belek in late-November

'B2B, B2C – we don't discriminate,' newly-launched operator insists

Three years in the making, the Holiday Best debuted last month and is hoping to win over agents with its all-inclusive package holiday proposition

Too hot to handle? Travel faces up to the climate crisis

After temperatures soared to unprecedented levels in the Med and wildfires raged in Greece, what effect has the extreme weather in the Med had on current and future booking trends?

Climate crisis 'an opportunity for agents to show their worth'

Agents believe the effects of recent wildfires in Greece and soaring temperatures across southern Europe underline the benefits of booking with an expert