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Travel Counsellors names new customer director and chief people officer

Dave Callan and Victoria Wilson joined the business earlier this month from outside the travel sector

Consumers becoming more price savvy again, say agents

Pricing, along with getting hold of suppliers, has become one of the main post-Covid issues for agents this year according to TTG’s latest Travel Agent Tracker survey

Running a successful client event

Swords Travel associate David Knight ran his first client event in January. He explains what it was like to plan and weighs up its success.

LGBT+ operator Chillimix to recruit trade team

’We wanted to make sure we had feet on the ground as we grow,’ said Chillimix boss David McDonald

Holidaysplease on track for record-breaking year

Homeworking agency smashes April sales record with days to spare, and is seeing more clients upgrade their travel

Homeworking agency Wonderluxe plans first high street store

Luxury agency has also revamped its logo and website, launched a new magazine and expanded its workforce

LGBT+ specialists offered hosted trip to Proud Experiences in NYC

The event, which is taking place in Brooklyn from 27-29 June, brings together leaders from the travel and lifestyle sectors to develop business strategies and expand LGBT+ understanding

Creating positives out of a pandemic

There have been plenty of changes over the last two years that we’d all like to see consigned to the dustbin of history. But, as they’ve adapted to survive, some travel agencies have hit on pandemic pivots that are well worth keeping, reveals Debbie Ward

New Agenda 2022 seminar - is travel back for good?

The seminar will take place on Thursday 28 April at 2pm and includes a detailed report by PwC and TTG, which will be sent out to all delegates

Travel Solutions Network announces first strategic partner

Social media travel brand, Trending Travel, becomes first business to utilise TSN’s homeworking network for flexible social media and call centre

Travel Counsellors records best month for new sales for two years

The homeworking firm said average spend in March was up 20% on 2019 levels

Agents move to reassure clients following airport delays

Designer Travel boss Amanda Matthews says her business is ’calling every client’ before they travel, while Travel Circle’s David Cookson said most clients were asking about the situation

Boiling point: Rising cost of living adds fuel to fire

Despite travel making inroads to recovery, factors – including increasing bills, record inflation and the war in Ukraine – may yet dampen UK consumers’ appetite for travel

Celebrity's Jonny Peat to join Advantage Travel Partnership

Peat to take up commercial manager – cruise role with the consortium next month

Hays reports increase in long-haul bookings and average customer spend

Chief operating officer Jonathon Woodall-Johnston said the independent agency has seen an increase in its average selling price

New TTG Top 50 honoured as event returns to Birmingham

The seventh annual ceremony took place after two years of virtual events, with Worcester’s ArrangeMY Escape named the UK and Ireland’s Top Agency for 2022

MSC Cruises reshuffles sales team following Stafford departure

Alyshia Jay Bartlett to take over from Scenic Group-bound Andrea Stafford, with move sparking three other internal promotions at MSC

MSC's Andrea Stafford joins Scenic Group as trade sales lead

Group makes five new appointments to UK trade sales team, led by Stafford’s arrival from MSC Cruises

Not Just Travel to pay staff for homing Ukrainian refugees

Homeworking company is also granting its 40 employees paid leave to help with voluntary work, either locally or nationally

‘Help your local agency’, consumers urged as restrictions lift

Travel the Globe urges consumers to use their local agency to lift businesses following the pandemic

Steve Witt: 'Travel is about to see the biggest comeback ever'

Not Just Travel co-founder reflects on the extraordinary fall, and now rise, of the travel industry, writing on the second anniversary of the moment the UK was told: ’Don’t travel’

Travel Journal expansion brings agent ‘full circle’

Ben Poole has relocated his Travel Journal business to the former premises of the agency he used to manage

Steve Byrne: 'Our model is about building relationships'

With the number of Travel Counsellors rising during the pandemic, chief executive Steve Byrne tells TTG how trust and leading from the front was a proven strategy

'This is a watershed moment for the travel industry'

Abta, Advantage, SPAA and WTTC all hail government plans to end of testing and passenger locator forms from 4am on Friday (18 March)