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'We were doing things other agencies hadn't thought about!': Lancing Travel celebrates 60 years of family enterprise

Interview
Dea Jusufi
28 April 2026

As Lancing Travel turns 60 on Tuesday (28 April), owner Cheryl Craft reflects on six decades and four generations of family enterprise and evolution, and the exploits of the agency's pioneering force.

Cheryl, Jessica and Sue at Lancing Travel
(Credit: Lancing Travel)

Cheryl’s daughter Jessica is now part of the team, alongside long-serving staff member Sue (Credit: Lancing Travel)

"What a wonderful life" is what Joseph (Joe) Langdell used to say about his career in travel, most notably with Lancing Travel, the agency he founded in 1966.

Six decades on, that same optimism runs through the business, now led by granddaughter Cheryl, who has for the past nearly 15 years single-handedly steered the agency through untold volatility, determined the shop would survive on her own terms.

"If I ever decide to shut up shop, that’ll be my decision, not something else's," she tells TTG.