Penny Spencer, Founder and Managing Director of Spencer Travel, has confirmed the sale of the company’s corporate travel division to LodgeLink, a Black Diamond Group company (that offers a digital marketplace for B2B crew accommodation, travel and logistics), marking a significant milestone in the businesses’ 26-year history.

Spencer Travel, in partnership with Mosman Travel and Mary Rossi Travel, recently hosted a highly successful exclusive Luxury Travel Showcase event at the prestigious Shangri-La Sydney. The event brought together over 300 clients and 60 luxury travel suppliers, offering a unique opportunity for clients to engage with industry leaders and explore a range of premium travel experiences.

Link Travel Group hosted its first event since launching in May as a joint venture between Flight Centre Travel Group (FLT), The Goldman Group and Spencer Group of Companies.

Link Travel Group – the network founded by Flight Centre Travel Group, The Goldman Group and Spencer Group of Companies in May – has welcomed six of Australia’s best-known agencies to its invitation-only membership group.

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.

Spencer Travel has welcomed personnel from two of its sister Sydney suburban travel agencies to its headquarters at Mascot as the Virtuoso member trims costs during the current financial crisis.

Luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent has welcomed Penny Spencer’s Spencer Travel back into its prestigious Connoisseur Club after a number of years apart.

Australia’s Spencer Travel has been taken out the award as this year’s Most Engaged Air/Services Member Agency of the global luxury travel network, Virtuoso, during the 31st annual Virtuoso Travel Week.

To mark Spencer Travels’ 20-year anniversary this week, it’s only fitting that LATTE expands our questioning with Penny Spencer to 20 Questions, covering off her start in the industry, the establishment of her own business, some of the challenges that she faced, the importance of mentoring, her inspiration, favourite hotel and more.