Skip to main content

Independent

Travel_Leaders_Peaks_2023.jpg
‘The buzz is back’: Why peaks is the perfect time for travel to get back to normal
TTG caught up with four agency leaders to learn more about what it was they did to ensure their businesses got off to the best possible start in 2023
Jacqueline Dobson: 'Travel agents are propping up our high streets!'
Record sales and a new flagship store drive Barrhead's 2023 optimism
With a new headquarters up and running and a new flagship branch poised to open - 2023 is shaping up to be quite the year for Barrhead Travel
Tropical beach under palm trees
Lates drive strong start to peaks as cash flow fears wane, agents tell TTG
Some agencies are seeing a huge jump in sales year-on-year, with lates driving demand, while for others their clients have been more reserved
Jet2: 'It's time to have a serious look at your marketing'
Jet2holidays vows to further strengthen trade partnerships in 2023
The pledge comes as the tour operator announces the first two winners of its peaks campaign for independent agents
HAYS_SUNSHINE_SATURDAY_3.jpg
Hays Travel claims five-fold increase in 'Sunshine Saturday' bookings
Customers were ‘eager to beat the cost of living blues’ on Saturday (7 January) by securing a bargain break
Nearly every agent respondent took new bookings in the two weeks to 29 October (Credit: Dawid Zawila / Unsplash)
Advantage: ‘Agents heading into 2023 with confidence’
Consortia hopeful of busy Saturday (7 January) with peaks bookings already up 4% on 2019 levels and average bookings values up by almost a third on the same period
Natalie Greaves will head up the division
Former STA Travel RSM to head up agency's touring and adventure push
The move comes as Barrhead Travel looks to meet a growing demand for ’experiential and authentic’ travel
Ocky White Travel, Haverfordwest
Welsh agency near medieval burial site highlighted in BBC documentary
Some 280 bodies – thought to be from the Medieval period – have been discovered beneath a Welsh travel agency
Barrhead Travel's Nicki Tempest-Mitchell
Barrhead fixes sights on ‘massive’ peaks with new campaign
Scottish independent reveals peaks TV ad
Go Travel is celebrating a year since its Chislehurst store reopened
Family-run agency bounces back with plans to grow tour op
Go Travel is celebrating a year back in business, with plans to switch some of its focus to its in-house tour operator after confirming it would not seek to reopen its other three former branches
Sheena Sumner, director and founder of Wonderluxe Travel
Agent named among top 100 'one-to-watch' entrepreneurs
Wonderluxe Travel founder and managing director Sheena Sumner said ’it didn’t feel real’ after she found out she had been named in the Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch List
TravelTime World's Jackie Steadman and Ashley Quint
Ashley Quint appointed TravelTime World innovation director
Quint to become director of, and shareholder in, the Berkhamsted agency he joined as an apprentice nearly 20 years ago
Steve Byrne addresses Travel Counsellors' 2022 global conference
Travel Counsellors on a roll after record 2022 sales
Travel Counsellors set to return to profit when it reveals 2021/22 figures
Advantage's David Forder
Advantage eyes near-normal peaks despite consumer worries
Advantage marketing boss tells TTG he believes pent-up demand will outweigh money anxieties in January
Trading has slowed down ahead of the festive season (Credit: Tim Mossholder / Pexels)
Five travel sales trends that are defining trading right now
Here’s a sneak preview of the latest insights from TTG’s Travel Agent Tracker ahead of Tracker Talk on Wednesday (14 December)
Advantage believes it has the right campaign for the market
Advantage unveils 'Travel & See in 2023' peaks campaign
Turn of year promotion will focus on promoting the additional value that comes with booking with an agent
Royal_Pitch_December_Royal_Caribbean.jpg
Agents scoop further £34,000 investment from Royal Caribbean
The Royal Pitch scheme launched in March features Reggae Reggae Sauce entrepreneur Levi Roots among its judging panel
Edwina Lonsdale and Catriona Parsons were inducted into the Hall of Fame
First inductees into Clia's new cruise Hall of Fame revealed
Mundy Cruising’s Edwina Lonsdale, Hays Travel cruise lead Catriona Parsons and Cruise Britain earn spots at Clia’s annual Winter Ball
When will the storm clouds over Westminster lift (Credit: Original Toast / Unsplash)
Advantage agents band together to form government lobbying group
Members of the Advantage Travel Partnership’s new policy advisory group include Barrhead Travel president Jacqueline Dobson, Jeanne Lally from the Travel Bureau and Idle Travel’s Tony Mann
Henning will take up her new role in April
Inspire partners with Widgety to boost agents' tech options
Managing director Lisa Henning said: “We are always on the lookout for new and innovative tech to assist our Independent Travel Advisors and this app has gone down exceptionally well with the team"
Tempted to become a Hays homeworker? Here’s why
Hays Travel to open two new branches in Northern Ireland
The new additions in County Down will offer 10 new job opportunities with roles from branch manager to apprenticeships available
One of the bookings was for the One & Only Le Saint Geran in Mauritius
Gold Medal: 'It feels like we've got momentum going into peaks'
Trading director Tricia Birmingham tells TTG how close collaboration between her team and agents secured three huge bookings, driving the operator to its strongest day of the year
Glasgow (Credit: Artur Kraft / Unsplash)
Scottish agents make fresh plea for rates parity with rest of UK
SPAA highlights importance of high street travel agents to ’struggling’ local high streets and the Scottish economy ahead of Small Business Saturday (3 December)
L-R: Justin Mahoney, Claire Gibson (Hays head of commercial), Kelly Hayre and Jonathon Woodall-Johnston
Hays Travel confirms supplier partnership with Attraction World
Attraction ticket specialist says new three-year deal underlines its commitment to the UK travel trade