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How travel rose to the challenge of bank holiday ATC chaos

Agents moved quickly to help customers impacted by flight cancellations and delays

Scenic to offer Eclipse II fam events to more than 200 agents

The fam events culminate in a four-day sailing for ten agents from Dublin to Plymouth

Riviera relaunches website with enhanced agent functionality

The river cruise and touring operator’s online platform now allows all holiday information to be accessed on itinerary pages

The Homeworker: 'I sometimes miss the thrill of making £25k bookings in my pyjamas'

’The home-based agent community has fully embraced the Brave New World in which we now live – and it feels like a levelling-up of opportunity,’ writes Travel Counsellor Jo Shayler-Tarrant for TTG’s latest homeworking column

New agency plots growth after recruiting 100 agents in four months

One Travel Club, launched by industry veterans Lee Evans and Gregory Barratt, will look to put a personal touch on the onboarding process for new agents

Not Just Travel named among top 10 franchise businesses in the UK

Co-founder Paul Harrison said the ranking was “testament” to how “truly innovative” the business is

Firms band together to combat modern slavery in travel's supply chains

Defined by the United Nations as ‘an umbrella term covering practices such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, and human trafficking’, modern slavery impacts an estimated 50 million people around the world

Tui's top tips to help agents cater for the LGBT+ market

’Sometimes people are almost a bit scared of saying the wrong things – but everyone has to start somewhere,’ Tui head of brand marketing Toby Horry tells TTG

Not Just Travel launches peaks recruitment drive

Homeworking agency and its recruitment arm to host three recruitment roadshows next month with a view to ’training as many new consultants as possible before Christmas’

G Touring to host £1,000 trade giveaway to mark launch of new agent hub

The hub will allow agents to download window posters, information about Travelsphere and Just You holidays along with copy and images for use on social media

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?

Homeworker bags £260k booking following Mauritius fam trip

Debbie Taylor, from Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds, travelled to the destination with Beachcomber

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

John Warr to leave the Travel Village Group after nearly two years

Travel Village Group chiefs Phil and Paula Nuttall pay tribute to former Wendy Wu Tours sales director Warr, who joined the group as managing director in October 2021

Travel Counsellor pens first novel – while achieving record sales

Guernsey-based Nicki Harrison will fulfil her dream of becoming a published author on Friday after penning her debut novel while also maintaining her successful travel business

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

Cunard to target new-to-cruise market ahead of Queen Anne launch

The line will encourage agents to offer Cunard as an alternative holiday option to customers who may have never sailed with the line or cruised at all

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

Returning travel pros drive record growth for Travel Counsellors

The homeworking giant on Monday (7 August) revealed some 200 new business owners had joined its ranks since November 2022, a third of whom left travel owing to the pandemic

'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