Finance

How Pliant’s travel payment solutions can save your agency time, money and stress

Pliant offers virtual credit card technology that helps travel businesses boost their efficiency and increase margins and operating capital

Quarter of consumers now booking package holidays, according to Barclays' 10-year review

Barclays has identified an upward trend in package holiday demand and spending with travel agents in a report that reviews consumer behaviour over the last decade

The Travel Network Group's Managed Service proposition and new chapter In The Spotlight

Discover what differentiates the group’s offering and hear about the variety of support services it could offer your business

Top London hotel to give agents commission within 24 hours of guest departure

Agents often have to wait between 30 and 60 days to make money from their bookings.

Classic Collection owner ‘confident’ B2B brand can return to profitability

Despite a disappointing start to 2025, Classic Collection owner On the Beach is hopeful the B2B brand will be back in the black in the second half of the financial year

Jet2holidays boosts funding for agencies with bricks-and-mortar ambitions

The tour operator has expanded its Scale Up Your Street campaign by increasing the prize money from £100,000 to £120,000 and extending the number of shortlisted agencies

Holidays remain a 'top priority purchase' despite economic fears, says Barclays

Travel bucks the trend once again in Barclays spending survey as the bank says people still feel holidays are a top priority despite fears about rising bills and the effects of tariffs

Thomas Cook auditors fined millions for failings in run-up to 2019 collapse

Cook’s auditors have been fined nearly £5 million for failing to properly investigate the company in the two years before it collapsed, a damning report by a financial watchdog reveals

Package travel back on government agenda as industry views sought on revised reforms

The government has proposed changes to insolvency protection and Linked Travel Arrangements in its reform of the EU’s Package Travel Regulations, opening a three-month consultation period

Limitless Travel secures £6.5 million investment to fuel expansion plans

Limitless Travel has secured a multi-million pound investment, with plans to take the brand to US consumers and offer more product to existing UK customers

Have your say: Will 2025 be the year of the travel agent?

What holidays are your clients buying? Are they really prioritising spend on travel? And where do you think they should be holidaying this year? Let us know your views in our new survey on the outlook for 2025.

Upward trend in spending with travel agents continues in December – Barclays

New figures from Barclays reveal spending with travel agents grew by 7.5% year-on-year in December, an increase matched by only one other sector monitored by the bank

G Adventures buys out Covid-era investors after strong 2024

G Adventures has paid back private equity investment secured during the pandemic after using funds to upgrade technology ahead of 2025 expansion

Hurtigruten and HX finalise separation following buyouts

The lines have been acquired by investment consortia, both led by asset management firm Arini Capital Management. The buyouts are expected to be completed in January 2025.

EasyJet vows to 'strengthen' tour op's customer base following strong results

EasyJet said high easyJet holidays customer satisfaction scores of 84%, with 82% likely to rebook, had helped drive the robust financial performance. It added that future initiatives are ’under way’

Poll: Will the recent Budget help or hinder your business?

Billed as a once-in-a-parliament reset to the nation’s finances, last month’s Budget saw chancellor Rachel Reeves deliver reforms that could have wide-ranging implications for how the travel trade goes about its business

What will the chancellor's Budget statement mean for travel?

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has unveiled the first Budget of the new parliament, billed as a ’once-in-a-generation’ reset of the country’s finances

‘Positives’ for travel in new govt's first 100 days, says Abta

While the travel association warned of potential downsides to come in the Budget, it added the industry could draw some positives from the new government’s first 100 days

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

Travel Counsellors smashes £1 billion sales barrier for the first time

The homeworking firm achieved £1 billion in sales during the 12 months to 23 August, the first time it has hit the milestone, with £735 million – nearly three-quarters – coming in leisure sales

Advantage chief: ‘We export people, not economic growth – that stays here’

Julia Lo Bue-Said says the travel industry has an opportunity to make a better case for itself under a new government, and spell out to MPs how its economic contribution is primarily in the UK – not overseas

Spending with travel agents continues to defy slowdown – Barclays

Barclays Consumer Spend shows spending with travel agents is still increasing, bucking a downward trend in card transactions in July

Attractions platform Lovetovisit secures another multimillion-pound investment

Lovetovisit, a UK attractions booking portal, has secured more funds after attracting venture capitalists to back its growth

Travel Counsellors’ annual transactional value nears £1 billion

Homeworking pioneer says 2022/23 trading momentum has continued in the first six months of its new financial year