High street

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

Barrhead confident homeworking growth will continue into 2024

Director Linda Pyle told TTG on Thursday (5 October) she would like to see another year of growth around a third

Barrhead 'ready to adapt' should cost of living squeeze hit bookings

Sales and marketing director Nicki Tempest-Mitchell said spending per person had gone up by £683 despite tough economic conditions

Barrhead parent: 'There's a huge opportunity for high street growth over the next five years'

John Lovell, president of Barrhead’s parent company Travel Leaders Group, has reiterated his support for the Scottish agency

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

Fred Olsen Travel acquires Ipswich-based agency and takes on staff

Idelo Travel owners Andrea and Antony Powell decided to sell their business after 10 years so they could retire

Barrhead to launch US-focused division and continue high street expansion

Sales and marketing director Nicki Tempest-Mitchell said the new division will be launched next year

TTNG acquires London-based Abbotts Travel as owner retires

The acquisition brings the number of branches within TTNG’s retail arm to 19

Scotland's Thorne Travel to open third shop early next year

Managing director Shona Thorne said her business has seen an ’incredible surge in customers’ since the Covid crisis

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

Baldwins targets 'nationwide' growth after opening ninth shop

Managing director Nick Marks said the new Haywards Heath site was identified before the pandemic

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

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

Homeworker hails Virgin Voyages for 'turning cruising on its head'

Not Just Travel agent Julie Moss said the adults-only line was ’an easy-sell’ due to its ’free and easy’ concept

'They say the lates market is back, but as ever – the devil is in the detail'

’This summer’s spike in last-minute was encouraging news for the trade, but as always, it’s important to look beyond the headline numbers,’ writes Adido chief Andy Headington for TTG

'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

Fred Olsen Travel reveals growth plans as company nears £100m turnover

Speaking to TTG exclusively to mark the business’s 35th anniversary, Fred Olsen Travel bosses sense room for growth

‘I was a mess!’: agency owner's shop floor tears of pride after selling up

Don Bircham opened his first shop in the north Wales town of Mold in 2000; 23 years later he approached Dame Irene about selling up

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

Kuoni picks inventive location for new Dorking store

The new shop will bring the number of Kuoni outlets throughout the UK to 27