Educational travel group buys three new brands
Blackpool-based specialist educational travel company, Next Generation Travel (NGT), has acquired three Surrey-based firms.
The addition of Study Experiences, Sport Experiences and Remembrance Travel means the group now has six specialist educational travel brands offering trips throughout the UK, Continental Europe and worldwide.
It will also grow the company’s turnover to £25 million, with a workforce of 80 people and annual passenger figures of more than 70,000.
Established in 2010, NGT’s existing brands are WST Travel, FHT Travel, and Anglia Tours.
Cambridgeshire-based FHT Travel was acquired in 2013 and Anglia Tours, a battlefields tours specialist, was acquired in 2017.
NGT managing director Deborah Beckett said the acquisitions were a key part of the group’s strategic expansion plans.
"These new brands enable us to enter new markets and deliver a broader selection of specialist tours for our clients," she said.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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