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New specialist travel collective The Travel Expert Group pledges to put agents at the centre of its business

Agents
Dea Jusufi
17 July 2026

Five travel brands, spanning agencies and operators, have united under a single banner with a pledge to put agents and the wider travel trade at the heart of its operations.

The Expert Travel Group
The Expert Travel Group

Clockwise from top-left: Molly Adshead, Matt Purser, Christina Brazier, Jamie Taylor, Julie Gough and Cheryl Mallon

The Expert Travel Group brings West Country agency C the World and homeworking outfit Doors to Manual together with operator brands Africa & Beyond, Ski Gems and Caledonia Golf Journeys under the same umbrella.

The new group will be led by Founder, Owner and Managing Director Matt Purser, an experienced travel trade professional and former Director of both the Travel Trade Consultancy and the Firebird Partnership, who has in recent years begun assembling a portfolio of travel brands.

The decision to form the group follows "two years of record trading and sustained expansion" and marks the start of its next phase of growth, said The Expert Travel Group this week.