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Natalie Singleton has joined Not Just Travel
Natalie Singleton joins Not Just Travel as partnership manager
Singleton, who started her career with Thomas Cook, returns to travel after leaving Destinology last year
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Agents encouraged to use cruise trade tool
Session leader Damian Gevertz said the portal supplied a "vast" cruise database, all in one place
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Travel Village Group holds talks on sales hacks
The sessions revealed customers prioritised trustworthiness over professionalism when it came to agents
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Travel Village Group to launch work abroad scheme
Agency bosses said they recognised that sometimes couples or families could not align schedules when it came to booking annual leave
Managing director John Warr said the group, which is known for its cruise expertise, was ‘missing’ out on touring and adventure sales
Travel Village Group reports ‘incredible’ sales uptick
In a survey last year, 98% of customers judged the agency as good to very good when it came to customer support during the pandemic
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Travel Village Group seeks to open up industry to ‘important’ young people
The agency is recruiting for apprentices across its business, including in its retail store, technology department and marketing team
Travel Counsellors' head of recruitment Matt Harding said the aim of the guide is to "retain experience and talent within the travel sector"
Travel Counsellors boosts training as cruise sales ‘soar’
The agency’s cruise sales were 60% up in April and May 2022 compared to 2019
Business travel is at 'the sharp end of this crisis'
Travel Counsellors confident corporate sales bouncing back
The homeworking agency has gained 13% more new corporate clients to date compared with the same period in 2019
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Holidaysplease partners with consultancy to boost bookings
Minty Highway Consulting owner Danny Sperling has been hired to boost agents’ sales
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NCL boss: 'The cruise industry can’t survive without the travel agent'
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings chief executive Frank del Rio addressed the Clia conference in Southampton via video link on Friday (20 May)
Travology's new website will allow its homeworkers to have their own space to upload tailored offers
Homeworking agency plots growth with personal website offering
Travology Travel hopeful its soon-to-launch new website, which will allow homeworkers to have their own unique pages and upload tailored offers, will help the business double its ranks
Heathrow and London City airports were among the worst affected by Storm Eunice's high winds
Flight schedule chaos ‘undermining customer confidence’
Uptick in schedule changes, amendments and cancellations creating yet more admin for under-pressure agents, TTG told
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Selling travel to an LGBT+ audience – join the TTG LGBT+ Seminar

Taking place on the afternoon of 9 June the Selling travel to an LGBT+ audience seminar, sponsored by South African Tourism, will be free to attend and will centre on addressing key concerns around LGBT+ travel, busting myths and misconceptions and celebrating the destinations actively working to appeal to the LGBT+ market.

The afternoon will begin at 2pm with a welcome by Sherwin Arends, trade relations officer, South African Tourism.

L-R: Lindsey Winterburn, Cherie Richards and Ruth Endacott
Cherie Richards joins Travel Solutions Network
Former Global Travel Group commercial director appointed start-up’s director of homeworking
The conference's reception will be held at the Game of Thrones studio tour
InteleTravel to host 2022 conference in Belfast
The Game of Thrones studio tour in Belfast will stage the conference reception
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Charlotte Gallop returns to travel as Inspire BDM
Gallop, who has previously worked for Going Places, Thomas Cook and Travel Counsellors, spent two years away from travel in the recruitment sector during Covid
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Ex-Cunard partnership manager Nicky Bird joins Not Just Travel
Bird will join the homeworking agency as its new partnership manager
Julia Lo Bue-Said: 'We’re refocusing on the future; the key things are our people and strategy'
Travel told it must work harder to fight for new talent
’If we showcase this as a low paid, inflexible industry, we’re not going to attract talent,’ Advantage chief Julia Lo Bue-Said tells Barclays Travel Forum
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'Having a safe space to share helps everyone feel better'
"There is no reason why anyone should feel alone in our community"
Holder worked for Hurtigruten for almost three years and prior to that spent seven years with The Travel Network Group
Not Just Travel recruits Holder to new head of trade role
Hurtigruten’s UK trade partnerships lead joins the homeworking company as part of a “million-pound" recruitment investment
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Travel Counsellors’ customers ‘highly confident’ to book holidays
April was the second month in a row where every market in which the homeworking agency operates in outperformed 2019 sales figures
Holidaysplease's Richard Dixon called the return to profitability in August a "nice surprise"
Holidaysplease offers start-up loans for new homeworking teams
The agency is looking for groups of two agents upwards and aiming to initially establish around five teams
Kelly Cookes has joined the Advantage Travel Partnership
Advantage to grow homeworking division
Leisure director Kelly Cookes told TTG the group will promote its Travel Specialists arm ‘more heavily’ in the coming months
Agents headed into the summer season hopeful of a strong summer rebound (Credit: iStock)
Trade hopeful of carrying early-year momentum into summer
Agents in the UK and Ireland cautiously report consumer confidence strengthening, and the prospect of a strong lates market to come