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Not Just Travel appoints new trade partnerships lead
The addition comes as part of the brand’s £2.4 million recruitment drive
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What does it take to be the UK & Ireland agent of the year?
We meet Travel Director Katie Canavan who triumphed in the recent Travel Industry Awards by TTG
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EasyJet holidays launches ‘Orange Friday’ trade promotion
Every Thursday and Friday for four weeks the operator will offer agents the opportunity to save their customers up to £200
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Personal Travel Agents emphasise local credentials
Personal Travel Agents unveil raft of initiatives at Malta conference
Sheena Whittle, head of The Personal Travel Agents at Co-operative Travel
Personal Travel Agents optimistic after record year
Midcounties Co-op homeworkers optimistic about 2023 despite ’tough winter’ ahead
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InteleTravel launches cruise search and brochure tool
The cruise search provides agents with live pricing updated every two hours, itinerary information and shareable images
Recruitment scene
The success stories that show why sourcing talent from outside travel works

As a staff sergeant with the Royal Engineers, Moses McLaughlin served in conflict zones around the world. Sailing off to the Falklands, he had no idea that the next time he stepped onboard a ship, he would do so as a travel agent, visiting a cruise ship, 40 years later.

After 22 years’ service, he embarked on a new career in sales and relationship management with the payments industry first at Barclaycard, then with number of financial institutions.

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Holly Simmonds joins Not Just Travel as cruise product manager
It comes as the homeworking agency continues to expand its new cruise division
The no-sail order has been extended to 31 October (Credit: Sandra Seitamaa / Unsplash)
Travel Counsellors reports uptick in winter cruise sales
The brand has seen a 35% rise in cruise business compared to the same time in 2019
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Not Just Travel launches new division as cruise sales increase
It comes as the brand plans to continue its recent sales success and capitalise on the ‘booming’ cruise market
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Wonderluxe invites independent affiliates under brand umbrella
Wonderluxe is opening up the business to independent consultants
Cherie Richards joins Hays Travel's homeworking division
Cherie Richards joins Hays Travel's homeworking division
Former Global Travel Group commercial director and Not Just Travel head of staff to lead recruitment for Hays’ expanding homeworking network
Not Just Travel co-founders Steve Witt and Paul Harrison
Not Just Travel predicts cruise sales will reach ‘all-time high’ during peaks
The company expects cruise bookings to increase from 12% of all sales to 25% in January 2023
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Homeworker launches travel wallet apps to agents after bookings boost
Andrew Rowdon has developed two new digital travel wallets for his clients to use
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How InteleTravel won the battle for legitimacy
With record sales and now Atol certification under its belt, InteleTravel has ambitions to become the most profitable homeworking agency in the UK. Sasha Wood reports from the InteleTravel conference
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‘There are big bookings out there – for sure,’ says Holidaysplease chief
Co-founder and director Richard Dixon tells TTG the homeworking agency is seeing a ‘realignment in the market’ post-Covid despite people continuing to spend on high-ticket trips
Holidaysplease hails 'front-foot mindset' after strong December
New Holidaysplease recruits to be offered £1,000 monthly earning guarantee
It was launched during the homeworking agency’s 2022 conference in Daventry on Friday (14 October)
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Holidaysplease on course to ‘financially recover from pandemic’ by year’s end
‘It will have taken us 12 months to recover from what we lost in 21 months,’ co-founder and director Charles Duncombe told the homeworking agency’s conference on Friday
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Holidaysplease to launch new online hub for its homeworking agents
The homeworking agency announced plans to roll out the new online agent information system at its 2022 Conference in Daventry
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Travel Counsellors’ full-year sales surpass 2019 levels by 20%
‘Travel back on the agenda for many,’ says homeworking giant after posting record-breaking sales figures for 2022 of £700 million
Sheena Whittle, head of The Personal Travel Agents at Co-operative Travel
Co-op Personal Travel Agents prepare for first conference since 2019
The homeworking arm of Midcounties Co-operative will hold its 10th annual conference later this month
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New homeworking agency sets sights on 250+ recruits by 2030
’Digital-first’ Destinations Desired is a member of the Travel Trust Association and has evolved out of the resurrection of the Kosmar Holidays brand in 2018
Petherbridge said he expects the government's additional £5 billion in retail grants to extend to travel agents
Faith in agents on the rise as travel emerges from the pandemic
Abta’s 2022 Holiday Habits report found 36% of people have so far booked with an agent this year, compared with 34% in 2019
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Registrations open for updated TTG Top 50 awards
Updates this year include a suite of social media assets for every winner