Independent travel company Travel Counsellors has offered help, advice and alternative travel arrangements to those holidaymakers affected by the news that yet another tour operator has gone bust this summer. The collapse of London-based travel company Flight Options Limited, trading principally as Kiss Flights, which specialised in holidays to the Mediterranean, has left approximately 13,000 [...]

Travel Counsellors are flying high after facing a daunting charity sky diving challenge last week. Travel Counsellors from around the UK travelled to RAF Weston in Bicester, Oxfordshire to make a leap of faith for the company’s chosen charity Plan UK. As one of seven Travel Counsellors who took part, Katie Chamberlain (pictured below) along [...]

Travel Counsellors achieved the best July day in its history this week. The company, which operates in seven countries and supports 1,200 travel agents worldwide from its Bolton head office, recorded sales of over £1.3m on Tuesday 6 July. Travel Counsellors also said England’s FIFA World Cup defeat had boosted bookings, after seeing sales jump [...]

Top performing Travel Counsellors were treated to a weekend in Las Vegas last month, which included a once-in-a-lifetime flight over the Grand Canyon. With their feet firmly back on the ground they posed for a photograph surrounded by spectacular views. Congratulations to the 76 Gold Travel Counsellors who were whisked away to Vegas as a [...]

Travel Counsellor Barbara Charlton from Crawley writes a regular and popular column for Selling Long Haul magazine. Here’s her latest offering: http://emag.sellinglonghaul.com/showmag.php?mid=rddptg#/page60/ Happy reading!

“I was bowled over. Syria is one of the best places I’ve been and not what I expected at all. People were so open and friendly. The infrastructure was modern. The itinerary was fantastic. The food was ace. There was no hard sell in the souks. “People think Syria is dangerous, yet it is really [...]

Long weekends offer the perfect excuse to get away from it all. There’s nothing like a change of pace and some new scenery to blow the cobwebs away! With two luxuriously long weekends this month why not use the extra time to think about the endless possibilities for May’s last bank holiday and half term week. If [...]

A relatively new TC myself I was lucky not to have too many of my own clients stranded. However, I ended up coming to the rescue of a young family with a 19-month old baby who had booked themselves a low-cost flight and accommodation in Lanzarote online. The husband of the family books all his [...]

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My customers of six years were due home on Sunday 18 April; I first contacted them on the Friday to update them on the situation. We text/phoned each other several times a day. I kept a constant eye on the airline’s schedule and relayed the information back to them. They met another family who had [...]