Travel Counsellors has come a long way over the last 4 years of operation in Australia

TravelManagers dominance continues in the home-based consulting market with Chief Executive, Joe Araullo, describing 2011 as being another “outstanding year” for the company.

Barry Mayo has been in the travel industry for 50 years during that time he has experienced significant changes. He says through his role of Chairman of House of Travel Australia, which owns TravelManagers Australia, he is watching with keen interest and enthusiasm the development of the personal travel manager market.

Travel Counsellors has unveiled a new initiative which will focus on providing home based agents with training and support on their doorstep.

Recent figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed that the number of Australian residents departing for overseas destinations was up 9.9 percent from July 2010 to June 2011.

Friday 13th did prove to be an eventful day at Travel Counsellors, but not for sinister or fateful reasons. We celebrated the best sales day in the TC family’s 16 year history.

TravelManagers’ Business Partnership Manager, Sarah Weaver was so inspired working with the personal travel managers in her area that it convinced her to resign from her job and join them!

2012 is going to be a big year for Travel Counsellors both within Australia and throughout their global network with expansion plans to be announced in the coming months.

TravelManagers’ sales for Great Southern Rail have been so impressive that it has been awarded the “Chairman’s Club Award” for the 2010/2011 financial year.

According to the latest research by the UK group GMB, the experts in the world of work, Travel Agents, Flight Engineers and Pilots have had one of the lowest drops in living stands across all occupations since the Global Financial Crisis.

Traveleague Christmas Luncheon was just the start of the celebrations for Travel Counsellors Australian Gold Achievers this year.

TravelManagers was again, for the third consecutive year, the exclusive retail call to action at the European Travel Experts’ Europe Travel Expos recently in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney.

TravelManagers’ National Conference focused on “Creating Value” something one of their personal travel managers clearly demonstrated to external motivational keynote speaker Robyn Pearce.

Travel Counsellors has announced remarkable sales growth for the past year and impressive forecast figures for 2012, as the travel company goes from strength to strength due the ‘highly personalised service it provides to its customers’.

APT Business Development Manager Graham Werner, announced in November this year, that MTA – Mobile Travel Agents will be upgraded to a platinum status from 1st January 2012 to the existing APT Partner Program.

TravelManagers chairman, Barry Mayo says recent coverage of travel agents increased market-share figures through the Roy Morgan Research is also a result of the growth in the mobile travel consultants distribution.

MTA – Mobile Travel Agents recently achieved recognition for the most improved corporate sales with British Airways during a Travelscene/American Express September promotion.

Travel Counsellors Australian head office last week launched it’s “New Starter Day” program, inviting all TC’s that have joined within the last 6 months back into head office for a recap on their original induction, but more importantly for them to all meet each other and know that they are not alone!

TravelManagers’ Kim Salter, representative from Melbourne, recently faced a situation that highlighted again the relevance of the ever growing responsibility of being and having a personal travel manager.

Unassisted and Non-stop Around the World and Young Australian of the Year, Joins MTA – Mobile Travel Agents as their New Brand Ambassador

TravelManagers highly successful 2011 conference and awards evening wasn’t even over and suppliers were vocally offering support to hold it overseas in 2012.

Eight lucky travel counsellors, including one head office staff member and a Qantas Holidays representative, set off on an exclusive famil to Paris and Abu Dhabi, with a stop in Birmingham to attend the UK Travel Counsellors conference.

Following on from another successful UK Conference, Travel Counsellors Australia has announced their 2012 conference destination as Sydney.

Mauritius is fast establishing itself as the destination for 2012 with suppliers hosting a second exclusive famil with TravelManagers.