TravelManagers Australia has wrapped up 2024 with a 12% year-on-year rise in sales, fuelled by 40% of the network’s personal travel managers (PTMs) achieving annual sales of more than one million dollars.

Signature Travel Network has announced the appointment of Lisa Harrison to the new role of Managing Director, Australia and New Zealand, LATTE can exclusively reveal. It’s the first time Signature Travel Network, a leading luxury travel consortium servicing more than 15,000 travel advisors worldwide, has appointed an Australian representative.

TravelManagers has released its sales results for the first quarter of 2024, adding a further seven percent increase in total sales to the previous year’s record-breaking January to March period. Executive General Manager, Michael Gazal, says the company’s strong showing surpasses its already-ambitious targets for the January to March period by around nineteen percent.

Personal travel managers Carli Hester and Claire Crosby were invited to represent TravelManagers Australia at the final International Luxury Travel Mart (ILTM) event on the 2023 calendar – ILTM Cannes in early December. The experience provided the pair with an invaluable opportunity to forge connections with luxury-oriented suppliers and travel advisors from across the globe amidst an elegant whirlwind of caviar and champagne, cocktail parties and one-on-one meetings.

TravelManagers Australia expects to have a larger presence of frontline personal travel managers (PTMs) at next year’s Signature Travel Network Conference, based on positive feedback from its advisors at this year’s event in Las Vegas.

Signature Travel Network’s President and CEO says he’s been blown away by the performance of Australia’s TravelManagers since joining the consortia in early 2022. Speaking exclusively with LATTE, Alex Sharpe says the home-based network has exceeded expectations.

Over 50 key suppliers along with 175 personal travel managers (PTMs), have completed a series of extensive Market Day workshops that were conducted by TravelManagers in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney.

Demand for luxury travel experiences is stronger than ever according to TravelManagers Australia, who recently had two personal travel managers (PTMs) take part in a luxury famil program in conjunction with Club Med, Singapore Airlines and CT Partners.

TravelManagers’ Chief Operations Officer and Operations Manager (Grant Campbell and Troy Coelho, respectively), recently attended Signature Travel Network’s Annual Conference, which brought together more than 2,000 global delegates and representatives from more than 540 suppliers at The Venetian Resort in Las Vegas.

TravelManagers this month revealed the TravelManagers Customer Fund (TCF), with Chief Operating Officer Grant Campbell describing it as “the final component in our consumer ‘Peace of Mind’ promise.”

When TravelManagers Australia took out Credit Card Charge Back Insurance (CCCBI) in July 2019, the company could not have predicted the pandemic that would effectively scuttle the international travel trade for the next two years. It was simply, as Grant Campbell, Chief Operating Officer explains, an essential element for fulfilling its ‘Peace of Mind’ promise to customers.

In July 2021, travel industry veteran Joanne Miller was contemplating her next career move. She knew that once international borders reopened, it would only a be matter of time before the industry kick-started itself, and she wanted to ensure that she was in the best possible position to take advantage of the reboot.