InteleTravel has reported its best-ever sales month in the UK, with bookings worth more than £6 million during January.
The homeworking group said sales are up 56% on the same period last year and exceed pre-pandemic monthly revenues.
The surge in demand follows the easing of travel restrictions on arrival into the UK from February 11.
InteleTravel reported strong sales to the Caribbean, the US and the Maldives and said more of its agents are serving high net-worth clients. Its top 10 agents generated more than £450,000 worth of bookings in January – with two sales of more than £100,000 each.
The homeworking group now has 10,500 agents in the UK and gained its Air Travel Organiser’s Licence in November, allowing agents to create and sell packages.
Tricia Handley-Hughes, UK director, hailed the company’s training programme which “instils the importance of following the correct process and procedures, and maximises relationships with partners”.
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Last weekend, 200 agents attended an educational day covering compliance, sales conversion and partner presentations.
Handley-Hughes said: “We are often criticised for attracting agents with no experience.
“These sales are a testament to those agents who are generating new audiences which had no previous allegiance to a travel agent.
“The investment in the training speaks for itself.”
InteleTravel will hold a two-day pop-up holiday clinic in Canary Wharf, London, on February 8-9.
It aims to generate new leads among office workers and maximise sales for InteleTravel ‘ambassadors’, who are agents who have been trained to the highest level of the InteleTravel academy and help train others.
The clinic will feature ocean and river cruises, packages and city breaks.