The Advantage Travel Partnership Introduces New Member The Travel Team

Monday, Jan 13, 2025 0

The Advantage Travel Partnership has announced The Travel Team as one of its latest members, having joined the consortia in July of this year. The Travel Team, a family founded travel agency based in the market town of Brampton in Cumbria, has been in business for over 38 years, helping holidaymakers book their dream trips from city-breaks to expeditions.

The Travel Team offers a wide choice of holidays including cruises, expedition voyages, ski trips, and adventure holidays as well as creating luxury and tailormade itineraries. They provide high standards of customer service whilst finding solutions for everyone.

Liz Beaty, Director of The Travel Team, has worked in the family business for over 30 years and is responsible for the day-to-day running of the company as well as providing a hands-on booking experience for travellers. Alongside Liz, Branch Manager Helen Griffiths brings over 20 years of experience in the travel industry to The Travel Team including several years working overseas in Turkey, Spain & Cape Verde.

Together they work in a team of five knowledgeable, well-travelled and experienced agents and through creating tailormade holiday experiences, the team has excellent customer retention which has helped to grow their existing client base.

Liz 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, Chief Commercial Officer of The Advantage Travel Partnership, 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.”