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Get Travel Talking Week: Agent Minds Matter
Independent agent bosses and Abta’s head of membership take part in a special Facebook Live around the importance of looking after your mental health
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Target: 'We need one voice to represent all travel agents'
Jill Waite and Graeme Brett, founders of the new agent-led campaign group Target, joined TTG on Friday to discuss their ambitions and the government’s failure to support travel
Westoe Travel, South Shields
Hundreds of agents join campaign to challenge govt support for travel
Target – Travel Agent Reform Group Engaged Together – says agents’ voices have been ’unheard’ throughout the pandemic
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Today 10.30am: Join agent mental health Facebook Live
Independent travel agent bosses and Abta’s head of membership will share their advice and experiences
L-R: Flexi Reps' Simon McDermott with Hays Travel Rochdale travel consultants Luke Lockwood and Mollie Ince
National Holidays hails trade response to in-store calls
Brand back out on the road thanks to new Flexi Reps tie-in, achieving 55 visits in its first week
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Get Travel Talking Week: Working on wellness
Travel firms share successes around staff mental health initiatives and discuss how they are making workplace wellbeing a top priority
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EasyJet holidays thanks agents after Shapps' gaffe
EasyJet holidays pledges support for independent agents
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Agents: Flexibility key to unlocking pent-up travel demand
Two top agents tell TTG about their sales and service mindset as travel restarts over the coming weeks and months
The transport secretary's comments were widely criticised throughout travel (Credit: BBC News)
Abta rebukes Shapps over flippant comments on agents
Transport sec’s suggestion at Friday’s ’green light’ reveal that agents are a thing of the past were ’ill-judged and ill-informed’, Abta chief Mark Tanzer has said
Petherbridge said he expects the government's additional £5 billion in retail grants to extend to travel agents
'This is what a travel agency looks like, Mr Shapps'
Transport secretary mauled over his comment about agents
Steve Witt, Not Just Travel
Not Just Travel hails Green Friday with bookings spike
Homeworking agency sees summer 21 bookings surge
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Indie agency to offer £30 PCR tests by absorbing costs
World Travel Lounge will begin offering the subsidised tests this weekend
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TTG Tracker: US and Canada demand spikes as confidence returns
Agents and operators report healthy interest in trips to North America for late-2021, and even higher levels of demand for 2022
Barrhead president Jacqueline Dobson won the Contribution to Travel award at the TTG Top 50 Travel Agencies 2021
Barrhead president to receive Commons recognition for TTG Top 50 award
MP has tabled motion to congratulate Jacqueline Dobson for winning Contribution to Travel award
European breaks continue to dominate enquiries (pictured: Italy)
Advantage reveals 17 May reopening campaign
Consortium details work with key destinations ahead of travel’s return
This new service is easyJet's second Scottish route announced this month
EasyJet holidays to give away fam trip places every day this month
Agents who make a booking with the operator between 5 May and 29 May will be entered into a daily prize draw to win a place on one of two fam trips later this year
Indian Ocean destinations (Pictured: Maldives) are proving particularly popular said Dixon (Mohamed Lammah / Unsplash)
First-time customers driving new Holidaysplease sales
More than 60% of homeworking agency’s April sales from brand new customers, director Richard Dixon reveals
Hays will offer test options from Assuredscreening.com from £45pp
Hays Travel to offer clients PCR test options from £45pp
New partnership with Assuredscreening.com will allow the independent to provide a range of government-approved PCR test options, where needed
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Get Travel Leaders Talking with Barrhead's Jacqueline Dobson

How have you been looking after your mental health and physical wellbeing over the past fe

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SPAA: 'Clients are moving bookings to English departure airports'
SPAA president Joanne Dooey tells TTG Scottish travellers lack confidence the country will adopt a four nations approach to the traffic light regime and other Covid challenges, despite a pledge by Nicola Sturgeon
Skylink ceased trading on Friday (Credit: Craig Whitehead / Unsplash)
Historic Irish travel agency ceases trading after 60 years
’Sad day’ for Irish travel industry says Irish Travel Agents’ Association chief Pat Dawson as Joe Walsh Tours shuts its doors
A VAT exemption on tests is one idea to cut the cost of testing (Credit: Annie Spratt/Unsplash)
Travel Network Group strikes deal for cheaper PCR tests
TTNG seals partnership with two PCR test providers
Muren said BA was aware it had under-invested in trade partnerships
Trade partnerships 'core and foundation' to British Airways recovery
Trade lead Mark Muren pledges to rebuild and nurture trade relations as travel seeks to recover and emerge from the Covid crisis
Meon Valley owner James Beagrie (right) sat down with local MP Damian Hinds (left)
Video: TTG Top 50 agency bags interview with local MP
Meon Valley Travel chief James Beagrie sat down with East Hampshire MP Damian Hinds to discuss the agency’s challenges and the impact of the Covid crisis on travel