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Olive Lounge Travel opens fourth shop ending years-long search for 'right' location in Yorkshire spa town

Agents
Harry Kemble
4 September 2026

Award-winning Yorkshire agency Olive Lounge Travel has finally secured its fourth retail premises and recruited an experienced manager from a rival agency to run it.

Aimi Donohue and Darcey Milstead
Olive Lounge Travel

Aimi Donohue and Darcey Milstead outside Olive Lounge Travel's new branch in Ilkley ahead of its opening on 1 September 2026

Founder and Managing Director Gillian Polyhos told TTG she had been searching for a suitable site in Ilkley for "many years" but couldn't find the right location or didn't have enough staff or the right management structure to make it work.

"Having been the manager at Going Places in Ilkley 30 years ago at a time when there were three or four established agencies in the town, I felt the current situation represented real potential for growth, as well as an opportunity to give the people of Ilkley and the surrounding areas more choice and the chance to experience what Olive Lounge Travel is all about."