Travel Counsellors
| Industry | Travel agency |
|---|---|
| Founded | Bolton, England |
| Founder | David Speakman |
| Headquarters | Manchester, United Kingdom |
Number of locations | 1,420 franchises |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | David Speakman (Founder) Kirsten Hughes (MD) |
| Website |
www |
Travel Counsellors Ltd. is an independent travel company headquartered in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1994 by travel entrepreneur David Speakman and operates in 7 countries around the world.
The company specialises in personally tailored holidays and business travel, and has over 1,400 travel agents globally, running their own home-based franchise,[1] in the United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Australia and the UAE.[2]
The company's turnover in 2013 year was £390 million.[3]
In 2015 the company announced it was moving headquarters from Bolton to Manchester.[4]
Awards
- Travel Counsellors was the winner of The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) (2003) and (2014).[5]
- The company was listed in the 2013 & 2014 Sunday Times International Fast Track[6]
- The company's business travel division[5] was listed as one of the UK's top 20 travel management companies.[7]
References
- ↑ Davies, Phil (2014-01-16). "Travel Counsellors named Netherland's best travel company". Travel Weekly. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ↑ "We are global". Travelcounsellors.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ↑ "Travel Counsellors continues on upward curve". E-tid.com. 2013-11-28. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ↑ http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/13637618.Leisure_company_Travel_Counsellors_set_to_move_out_of_Bolton_for_new_home_in_Manchester/
- 1 2 "Corporate Travel and Business Travel Management from Travel Counsellors". Tctravelmanagement.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ↑ "Company profile". Fasttrack.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
- ↑ "The calm before the storm - 50 leading TMCs". Buying Business Travel. 2009-06-01. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
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