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.

The build up to this year’s UK Conference has been made even more exciting with a group of lucky Austrtalian Travel Counsellors attending along with Australian GM, Deb Duncan and National Recruitment Executive, Kerryn Murphy.

TravelManagers highly successful 2011 conference culminated in their awards function to recognize excellence on the Saturday evening. Naturally their 325 personal travel managers were in the spot light with nine categories to reward outstanding sales and service.

The growing number of TravelManagers from around Aus gathered, networked, were awarded and added a little 80s to their life during a two day 2011 National Conference.

There is one thing consultants can do to stay ahead of the growing online sector and that is to create a better travel experience for customers by offering niche expertise and build relationships.

The mobile travel consultants Group is planning to “enhance the customer experience” with a revamp of its online presence.

Creating a truly mobile Group, TravelManagers has unveiled a range of technological advancements including email migration, upcoming updates to the Amadeus platform, arrival of eNett as well as new employee support.

TravelManagers is increasing its focus on the cruise market after welcoming a 24 percent rise in cruise sales for the first nine months of 2011 compared to the corresponding period last year.

The Australian has recently drawn a parallel between the entrepreneurial model of the personal travel manager and the evolution of the travel industry.

Travel Counsellors Chairman and founder David Speakman gives his own personal thoughts on the effect of the recent Qantas strike on the travel industry;

The winner of the prestigious Avis Travel Agent Scholarship of Excellence for 2011 has gone to a mobile consultant, strong evidence that the face of the travel industry is changing from the dominance of the retail travel agent/consultant.

TravelManagers fourth annual conference theme for its 2011 National Conference is “Creating Value” and in addition to its three external motivational keynote speakers, Cris Popp, Robyn Pearce and Anh Do, the conference has 11 different workshops on its comprehensive agenda.

A support network of nearly 1,400 travel professionals came into play over the weekend as Travel Counsellors’ agents and staff from across the globe provided assistance to one another during the Qantas crisis.

Saturday afternoons are normally categorized “relaxation” for most people in the travel industry.

For many years MTA had used a custom version of AFTA’s Webmail to help distribute daily product information to its mobile team.

TravelManagers’ theme for its 2011 National Conference is “Creating Value” something Chief Executive, Joe Araullo says has been the key to their success and being the leading company offering the personal travel manager experience.

It was celebrations all around, following on from another successful sales month at Travel Counsellors

A team of Travel Counsellors, with representatives from across all 6 international operations have just returned from a luxury trip to the tropical island of Barbados after winning the company’s ‘TC Battle to Barbados’ football incentive.

TravelManagers has continued their exclusive famil opportunities for its personal travel managers with their third this year just completed and their tenth since TravelManagers commenced their own dedicated famils in 2009.

Travel Counsellors’, their families and head office staff gave up their Sunday morning sleep-in for a very worthwhile cause on Sunday 09 October, by competing in various events in the Melbourne Marathon in support of the company’s chosen charity PLAN Australia.

Companies specializing in mobile consulting have been steadily increasing their presence in Australia with at least three additions in the past 18 months.

Travel Counsellors is very proud to have one of their own as this year’s AVIS scholarship finalist.

TravelManagers has appointed Scott Hallo to the role of business partnership manager for Victoria and Tasmania following Jodie Lemon’s decision to pursue a change of career.