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Jet2 reveals key trends driving average trade sales prices towards £1,000pp

Longer stays, coupled with more family and luxury bookings, has driven average sales prices per person with Jet2holidays up by £100 over the past year, general manager trade Lloyd Cross has revealed

How Travel Counsellors hopes to win in 2024

Five key focuses and strategies from Travel Counsellors for 2024

Travel Counsellors reports record £933 million in sales

The UK’s oldest homeworking organisation has recorded record sales of £933 million to the end of October 2023

Travel Counsellors shakes up senior team with raft of promotions

Harding will drive growth and Travel Counsellor recruitment, as well as onboarding and embedding new recruits

Ex-ITC boss takes major stakes in homeworking firm and sports operator

Jen Atkinson’s social-led travel brand has made the ’first of many’ investments in the sector

Stephanie Robins named Cyplon Holidays and Travelosophers sales director

Robins becomes the first person outside the Hajipapas family to become a director of the business in its 51-year history

Aaron Hilton joins The Holiday Franchise Company from rival brand

Hilton has become the company’s new training and partnership executive, overseeing one-on-one and virtual training sessions

Not Just Travel bosses scoop entrepreneurial award for 'growth and leadership'

The NJT bosses were handed the South West Scale Up Entrepreneur of the Year awarded at the Great Entrepreneur Awards on 20 November

Barrhead's Brilliant Travel sees winter booking surge

Brilliant Travel homeworkers enjoy record October and November sales amid new recruitment drive

‘Agents swayed by AI must remember to keep a firm hand on the wheel’

Generative AI opens vistas of opportunity for travel marketers and agents, but caution must be taken before rushing into adopting technology just because others are, writes We Are Llama’s Mags Sikora for TTG

New research highlights five-year trend towards travel agents

Around 40% of customers polled for the survey said booking through an agent was more reliable

Hays Travel reveals above-industry average customer satisfaction score

Hays’ senior learning and development manager Leanne Cox also revealed the agency’s new service promise

West Sussex agency to add more shops and launch homeworking division

Experience It Now Travel director Richard Light is looking at sites to expand his agency business, and hopes to recruit up to 20 homeworkers

Hays Travel to relaunch in-house tour operator as 'standalone B2B brand' Vista

Former Travel 2 manager Kathleen Molloy will head up sales and product at Vista, with Tracey Luke serving as head of operations

Global Travel Collection promotions to strengthen support for agents

Global Travel Collection enhances roles of management to step up support for the trade

'There is great opportunity ahead for agents,' says InteleTravel chief

The US-based homeworking group will soon become a billion-dollar business globally, co-founder and president James Ferrara tells TTG

Explore's trade revenue almost doubles in 2023 as it launches new 2024 brochure

The adventure tour operator is currently advertising for an agency sales support executive to bolster trade support

Five ways luxury agents are flexing for success in 2024

At the TTG Luxury Travel Summit delegates heard how luxury agencies and agency networks are getting fit for the year ahead

Tracy Roberts joins Not in the Guidebooks as sales and operations leader

Roberts’ travel career has spanned 26 years, working across various for Thomas Cook and Going Places

Jet2holidays pledges up to £5,000 towards apprentice agent salaries

The tour operator has previously announced a £500,000 apprenticeship fund to help agencies develop their workforces

Audley Travel hosts top-selling agents on first-ever fam trip

The tailor-made specialist took a handful of agents to Canada

Poll: Rebound in holiday demand prompts 20%+ pay hike for agents – has your pay gone up?

Earnings figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show the average salary for a UK travel agent was £29,618 in April 2023

'I can't continue at this pace forever': is the travel trade burned out?

Ahead of National Stress Awareness Day (1 November), TTG caught up with some of the agents feeling the burn – and others who are finding their way through

'Significant part' of easyJet holidays' growth to come from agents, CEO says

’The relationship we have with agents has far exceeded our expectations – in terms of that growth, a significant part of that will come from agents,’ Garry Wilson tells Abta Travel Convention