Homeworking agency Travel Counsellors has reported record-breaking sales for the last 14 consecutive months
After “smashing” January and February sales targets, it said sales reached £90.1 million for March, up 22% year on year.
Year-to-date sales from November 2022 have reached £416 million, which is a 64% increase from pre-pandemic levels.
More: Travel Counsellors acquires Holidaysplease
Travel Counsellors tops £114m sales in January
Leisure departures in 2023 have reached £404 million, a 37% increase since 2022.
In March, Travel Counsellors saw 51% of sales made for a summer 2023 departure, 29% for winter 2023-24 and 14% for next spring.
Furthermore, March saw 126 Travel Counsellor business owners celebrate their best ever months, with 18 achieving more than £200,000 in sales in the month.
Searches through the company’s in-house booking platform Phenix for last-minute Easter holidays show popular destinations are Tenerife, New York and Dubai.
For summer 2023, hotspots include Majorca, Florida, Corfu, Crete, Tenerife, the Algarve, California, Bali and the Turkish Riviera.
Steve Byrne, chief executive, said: “These figures are brilliant to see and testament to the hard work of our individual travel counsellors and the colleague community that support them.”