SmartFlyer has marked a decade of partnership with SmartFlyer Australia (SmartFlyer AU), celebrating ten years of deepened global connections, shared community, and collective success. Since 2015, the joint venture with Goldman Travel Corporation has served to bridge between markets, enhancing destination expertise and fostering new, global perspectives.

Anthony Goldman, Joint Managing Director of Goldman Group has continued his messaging on the need for improved transparency and definitions of the term ‘luxury’ travel. Speaking at the Goldman Group Conference in Melbourne on Saturday, Goldman said the word has become cannibalised by “people” wanting to capitalise on the growth of high-end travel, more so since the pandemic.

Goldman Group will introduce a new VIP division to its retail leisure brand offering red carpet chauffeur service for high-net-worth travellers.

SmartFlyer has celebrated its top-producing travel agencies through its recognition program, SmartFlyer ONE, which this year included Ash Chin of Sojourns Of in Sydney, Australia.

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 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.

Australian corporate travel specialists Goldman Travel Corporation has been named as the 2019 Top Production agency for the Virtuoso network in 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.