Travel Counsellors

Travel Counsellors
Industry Travel agency
Founded Bolton, England
Founder David Speakman
Headquarters Manchester, United Kingdom
Number of locations
 1,600 franchises
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 David Speakman (Founder)Steve Byrne (CEO) Kirsten Hughes (UK MD)
Number of employees
 1600 (2016)
Website www.travelcounsellors.co.uk Edit this on Wikidata

Travel Counsellors Ltd. is an independent travel company headquartered in Manchester, England. It was founded in 1994 by travel entrepreneur David Speakman and operates in 7 countries around the world.

The company specialises in bespoke holidays and business travel, and has over 1,600 travel agents globally, running their own home-based franchise,[1] in the United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa, Australia and the UAE.[2]

Travel Counsellors is an independent home-based travel company with turnover at the end of its last financial year (Oct 31 2015) of £166 million – up 22% year on year. Travel Counsellors has announced a record month of sales for January, with the value of its holiday bookings topping £48 million for the first time ever. [3]

In October 2014 Steve Byrne led a management buyout of the company, backed by Equistone Partners Europe.[4]

In 2015 the company announced it was moving headquarters from Bolton to Manchester.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "About Travel Counsellors".
  2. ↑ "Contact Us". Travelcounsellors.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  3. ↑ "January Blues plays well for holiday bookings company Travel Counsellors". E-tid.com. 2013-11-28. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
  4. ↑ "Equistone Partners Europe - Travel Counsellors". www.equistonepe.com. Retrieved 2017-02-09.
  5. ↑ http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/13637618.Leisure_company_Travel_Counsellors_set_to_move_out_of_Bolton_for_new_home_in_Manchester/


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