Having officially stepped down after 10 years on the Virtuoso Regional Member Advisory Board and the Global Board last month, Anthony Goldman, Joint Managing Director of Goldman Group shares some thoughts and reflections on the experience with LATTE.

This week, LATTE chats with Anthony Goldman, Joint Managing Director of Goldman Group, Chair of the Virtuoso Global Member Advisory Board; Board Director of Link Travel Group… and marriage celebrant.

In June, Goldman Group celebrated it 10-year milestone of having acquired Melbourne-based retail agency, Travelcall. That acquisition in 2013 laid the foundation for the previously corporate-focused Goldmans to become one of Australia’s most successful travel agency groups.

Last week, Australia’s own Anthony Goldman was confirmed as the newly elected Chair of the Virtuoso Global Member Advisory Board at ahead of Virtuoso Travel Week 2022. His appointment reflects Virtuoso’s movement towards a ‘think local, act global’ strategy being driven by Virtuoso’s Senior Vice President of Global Operations, Michael Londregan. Goldman is the first non-US member to take the chair with the global luxury travel consortium.

Flight Centre Travel Group, Goldman Travel Corporation and the Spencer Group of Companies will target independent travel businesses centred on premium and business travel to align with them under a new joint venture (JV) named Link Travel Group.

The surprise announcement by Western Australia that it would open its hard borders to residents of New South Wales and Victoria from next week, coupled with the reopening of the Queensland/NSW border earlier this week (see more below), has been applauded by travel groups.

Virtuoso Regional Director for Australia and New Zealand, Anthony Goldman, says the COVID-19 crisis and travel retreat presents a time for travel agencies to adjust their business, if they haven’t so already.

A sample audience of some of Australia’s most prominent travel advisors are steadfast that the luxury travel market will be the first to recover from the coronavirus crisis.

The Goldman Group has capped off a rewarding week at the 2019 Virtuoso Travel Week with Joint Managing Director, Anthony Goldman, lauded with the luxury travel network’s award for Most Admired Advisor – Asia Pacific.

Small Luxury Hotels of the World has introduced a new travel agency program in partnership with a hand-picked selection of some of the “very best travel agencies in the world”, including Goldman Travel Corporation’s Smartflyer in Australia.

The classic Australian song, ‘I’ve Been Everywhere’, has long captured the inherent spirit of antipodean travellers. With longer annual holidays, higher disposable income and a keener sense of adventure than many other nationalities, Australians are widely considered among the world’s most prolific travellers.