Virtuoso concluded the 36th annual Virtuoso Travel Week with a star-studded evening of recognition honouring member agencies, advisors and brand partners from around the globe.

Virtuoso has more than doubled its sales volume from the start of January to 30 June 2024 compared to pre-COVID levels, reaching a peak high of 211%

Matthew Upchurch, Chairman and CEO of global luxury travel network, Virtuoso, has revealed the three major focus points that are top of mind for the consortia at present, alongside new initiatives being developed to preserve the company’s distinction.

FBI Travel revived its much-loved Company Retreat last weekend, with 42 of the luxury travel specialists staff taking off to the Sunshine Coast for three days on the Queensland coast. The Melbourne-based agency last held a retreat for its team pre-pandemic in 2019, but since then the business has diversified and grown significantly, with employee numbers nearly doubling.

Uniworld Boutique River Cruises treated a group of Virtuoso-affiliated travel advisors in New Zealand to a lavish dinner out in Auckland this week, recognising their contribution to a spectacular upswing in bookings for the 2023 season, and a sustained drive for 2024 departures.

Australia’s increasing number of ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals provides an “incredible opportunity” for the region’s luxury travel advisors, says Virtuoso’s Fiona Dalton, General Manager, Australia & New Zealand.

The Australian and New Zealand high-end cruise market thrived in 2022 and touchstones suggest it won’t abate in 2023, data highlighted at the 2023 Virtuoso Owner-Managers Forum in Fiji shows.

Virtuoso has unveiled details of a travel recruitment program the luxury travel network says will assist members sourcing experienced, and soon fresh to the industry, staff for their agencies.

The 31st of January 2022 not only turned out to be a significant day in the career of Rafael Nadal’s tennis career, winning his second Australian Open in the early hours that Monday morning. It was the same date on the calendar that Fiona Dalton, the then freshly appointed General Manager of Virtuoso for Australia and New Zealand, says was a turning point in the confidence of Australian travellers’ to venture abroad again.