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How Travel Counsellors hopes to win in 2024

Five key focuses and strategies from Travel Counsellors for 2024

First-ever TTG Canada Fest agenda and prizes revealed

The first TTG Canada Fest will take place online next week, 4-8 December

Revealed: the city with the finest Asian cuisine outside of Asia

Encourage your clients to make the most of Vancouver’s creative food scene, inspired by its diverse global population.

Travel Counsellors reports record £933 million in sales

The UK’s oldest homeworking organisation has recorded record sales of £933 million to the end of October 2023

Iglu 'focused on 2024 and beyond' despite cruise sale report

City sources told The Sunday Times the company’s owner is likely to want to sell for a valuation of ’about 10 times forward earnings’

‘Digitise the predictable and humanise the experiential’ through AI, travel companies told

According to Thompson, using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT will help travel companies save precious time by streamlining bureaucratic processes

Travel businesses told to ‘shape their future before it shapes them’

Hoseasons former boss Richard Carrick has urged delegates to make forecasts with caution

Jo Rzymowska: 'If you don’t evolve in travel, you become extinct'

Industry veteran Jo Rzymowska discusses her life, her 40-year travel career and why the industry needs to embrace change during a wide-ranging chat at the Aito conference

Specialists identify group bookings and longer lead-in times as biggest challenges

Aito conference delegates heard local partners are becoming less inclined to welcome group bookings as they seek to diversify their clientele

Carnival UK commits to talks over the future of more than 900 roles

Under UK law, employers are required to tell the Insolvency Service of planned redundancies of more than 20

'If you support agents, you'll get the sales': How Gold Medal's trade team became the best in the biz

Karen Fletcher reflects on her 27-year career with Gold Medal, her rise to the role of trade partnerships director – and her team’s triumph at this year’s Travel Industry Awards by TTG

Foreign Office strengthens South Africa airport advice to Brits with call for vigilance

FCDO urged travellers in the country to ‘plan your trip in advance’ and ]verify your travel itinerary with a trusted local source’

Two specialists cease trading as Atol holders, CAA confirms

Crieff-based Travel Inspired and Warrington-based Florida Direct operated under a franchise agreement with Protected Trust Services (PTS)

'Specialists must treat the mass market as a barometer', Aito members told

Travel Trade Consultancy director Martin Alcock warns large operators could be forced to ’pull the levers’ if their growth in 2024 is lower than expected, potentially impacting specialists

Dame Irene Hays: ‘We've acquired some exceptional people at Travel House’

Hays Travel owner reveals to TTG the independent’s plans for its latest acquisition, stressing the importance of an orderly transition and ensuring the Travel House team are ‘happy, confident and feel safe’

Savvy ways to sell responsible travel

Agents heard how to market sustainable travel to capture clients’ interest, and how to avoid greenwashing, in the fifth TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors workshop

Travel Counsellors shakes up senior team with raft of promotions

Harding will drive growth and Travel Counsellor recruitment, as well as onboarding and embedding new recruits

UK excluded from China's visa-free travel trial

Year-long trial will be open to citizens from six countries planning to visit the destination over the next 12 months

Planning for the peaks: ‘grow the apple tree as well as selling apples’

Smart travel marketeers will spend the next month honing their marketing strategy, focusing on building their brand, telling emotionally appealing stories, and utilising savvy positioning to be ready for the peaks.

Carnival UK refutes union's 'fire and rehire' plan accusation

A spokesperson said Carnival UK was ’categorically not making any redundancies and we will not dismiss and re-engage staff’

Tui reveals first location for new upmarket hotel brand

Recently-acquired five-star resort in Zanzibar will be the first to operate under Tui’s new The Mora moniker

Ex-ITC boss takes major stakes in homeworking firm and sports operator

Jen Atkinson’s social-led travel brand has made the ’first of many’ investments in the sector

'World Safari Day is not just a date on the calendar, it's a call to action'

World Safari Day, on 25 November, was established in 2020 by Beks Ndlovu, chief executive of African Bush Camps to raise awareness about the positive impact of safaris.

Sustainable Travel Ambassadors petition Tui on captive dolphins

Four agents passionate about sustainability are calling on Tui Group stop selling attractions with captive dolphins