Membership has seen ‘significant growth this year’
The Advantage Travel Partnership has welcomed family-founded agency The Travel Team.
The Travel Team has been in business for more than 38 years and is based in Brampton, Cumbria, with five employees.
Its staff include director Liz Beaty, who has been with the agency for 30 years, and branch manager Helen Griffiths, who has 20 years of experience in the travel industry.
The agency offers a wide range of holidays from cruises to ski trips and adventure holidays, plus luxury and tailor-made itineraries.
Beaty said: “We are thrilled to have joined Advantage earlier this year due to what the company has been able offer The Travel Team in terms of commercial agreements with tour operators as well as what they are providing us with for our marketing needs whether it’s promoting exclusive offers for customers, point of sale material or new initiatives.
“After Covid, we identified that we wanted to make some changes within the business and wanted to join a consortia that would offer us the support and development necessary so that we could strengthen and grow.”
Kelly Cookes, The Advantage Travel Partnership chief commercial officer, said: “We were delighted to have The Travel Team join Advantage earlier this year as we have seen the incredible experiences they have created for clients over the last 38 years.
“This year we’ve seen significant growth in our membership with over 50 new branches and more than £500 million in new member turnover.
“We have seen this growth come from across the travel agent sector with established businesses joining us from other consortia, brand new start-up businesses, and some which were previously unaffiliated to any consortia seeing the benefits and have joined us.”
