The Advantage Travel Partnership has signed up three travel agencies as new members.
Reliable Travel, Exploratours and Ambassadeurs Travel Management have joined from other consortia in recent months.
Guy Snelgar, Advantage’s global business travel director, said: “It’s positive to hear that businesses such as Exploratours and Reliable Travel services made the decision to move from other consortia because they felt we were the ideal fit to meet their current and future business needs. Both businesses need access to our full range of services and products to support both their business travel and leisure travel activities, which we are able to provide.
“We are seeing a rise in members offering both business and leisure travel services – we know we offer the best product portfolio out there.”
Belfast-based Reliable Travel has been trading since 1985.
About 60% of its business is leisure, with the rest in corporate travel, with SMEs, manufacturing and marine/offshore clients.
Stephen Torbitt, owner of Reliable Travel, said: “We chose to move from a different consortium to gain access to Advantage’s full product portfolio across the leisure and corporate travel space as we believe the offering brings more opportunities to our business and client base.”
Exploratours was founded in 1947 and is based in London, specialising in long-haul holidays to Asia and Africa as well as providing business travel services to SMEs
The agency’s Vinod Shah said: “As a business, we had a rethink of our priorities and strategy and decided that Advantage is an ideal fit to move forward to grow our business and to achieve our goals.
“The transition has been very smooth and the engagement with the Advantage team has been encouraging.”
Ambassadeurs Travel Management is based in Mayfair, London,
It was established in 2019 and has a team of 15 offering luxury management services and a self-booking facility for SMEs.
Oliver Stokes, director at Ambassadeurs, said: “We wanted to join Advantage to further enhance the trust and value proposition of our proudly independent travel brand, as well as gain valuable industry insight from other partnership members who we are now privileged to sit alongside.”