Hays Travel

Hays Travel franchisee answers town's calls for a new travel agency

John Stewart’s new Hays Travel branch in Cupar will aim to fill the gap left by the closure in recent years of other local agencies

Hays Travel expands Big Thank You to Travel House and Miles Morgan colleagues

Over the coming months, Hays staff will be in with a chance of winning £500 towards their bills for six months, £2,000 towards a holiday or a £2,000 shopping spree

Finalists revealed for John Hays Entrepreneur Award 2024

For the first time, finalists will be interviewed face-to-face by Dame Irene Hays and a Hays Travel/TTG judging panel

Hays Travel team unhurt after shop vandalised during Sunderland unrest

Hays Travel owner Dame Irene Hays’ daughter Helen Hays said bricks were thrown through the agency’s Vine Place store on Saturday (3 August)

John Hays Entrepreneur Award: entries closing soon

This year’s winner is set to receive 12 months of support from Dame Irene Hays and the Hays Travel board

How an app-led start-up caught the eye of agency giant Hays Travel

My Kind of Cruise founder Sefton Monk tells TTG he is keen to ’scale up’ and grow the business he launched with David Rowlinson in 2022 following investment from Hays Travel

Hays Travel invests in millennial and Gen Z-focused cruise booking app

My Kind of Cruise has more than 300,000 users across its mobile app, tablet and web platforms, which it claims are predominantly millennials and Gen Zs

Coronation Street plays host to Hays Travel summer street party

Thirty die-hard Corrie fans headed to Hays Travel’s summer street party in Weatherfield on 8 June

Irene Hays: ‘Nurturing new talent vital as customer routes to market change’

Hays told ITT conference delegates Hays Travel was now using more than 60 different dialects to make its social media content more engaging – and to latch on to social media sales trends

Pro chef turned agent to manage Hays Travel’s newest London store

The new London branch was officially opened on Tuesday (21 May) in the presence of mayor of Sutton Colin Stears

Miles Morgan sells up to Hays Travel after nearly 20 years

Hays Travel said it had no plans to rebrand any of Miles Morgan Travel’s 19 branches across the South West and South Wales

Hays Travel's tour op hits string of wave targets following relaunch

The targets were around support offered to agents, bookings and cruise launches at Vista, which serves Hays Travel agents

Dame Irene Hays: 'A second peaks? We're aiming for a high plateau!'

Hays Travel’s bosses share their market outlook, with Dame Irene Hays predicting a much-anticipated ’second peaks’ will now come in the spring

Why Hays Travel is confidently pinning its hopes on 'a year of two peaks'

The year of two peaks was the central theme of Hays Travel Independence Group’s UK conference in Leeds, where messages of dialling back on discounting and dialling up on cruise were delivered to the member audience

Hays Travel begins foreign exchange recruitment drive

Hays Travel will offer foreign exchange facilities in each of its 470 branches this summer

Hays Travel to relocate ‘high performing’ Romsey branch to larger site

The store is in the running for Top 50 Travel Agencies 2024 by TTG in the South East region

Hays Travel hosts dinner to celebrate long-serving staff

Hays Travel owner Dame Irene Hays said she was ’grateful’ to long-serving Hays staff for their commitment to the business

‘Payday helped a lot’: Agencies overcome initial concerns to record bumper sales

Barrhead Travel recorded another record-breaking Saturday this month, and Hays Travel achieved above-target sales, while other agencies reported strong bookings

Irene Hays confident of another strong year despite ‘flattering’ financials

Dame Irene Hays is hopeful of another strong year after Hays Travel’s exceptional performance was born out in its recent accounts, not to mention several turn-of-year record sales sales, albeit fuelled by strong pent-up travel demand

Dame Irene and Hays senior leaders return to the shop floor for peaks

Dame Irene said getting back into Hays’ branches during the busiest period of the year would help the independent’s management team gather direct feedback from clients

Hays Travel reaps rewards of post-Covid rebound with £52 million profit

Hays Travel annual results confirms return of demand for travel in 2022/23 with a big increase in turnover and profits

Hays Travel reports second weekend of record sales

The agency has said Saturday (13 January) was the best trading day in its 43-year history, with branches reporting long queues outside shops

Hays Travel acquires Holiday with Us

Hays acquisition marks the first of 2024 following on from Just Go Travel and Travel House last year.

Cruise sales surprise boosts Hays Travel’s ‘record-breaking’ Sunshine Saturday

Hays Travel completes a record-breaking day of sales in the first Saturday of 2024 with cruise bookings significantly up on the previous year