The next generation of luxury travel consumers are digital natives who not only utilise AI and virtual reality personally, but expect it as a minimum standard from service providers and operators.

Travel Associates is looking to expand its direct-to-consumer cruise events, building on the success of The Luxury Travel Event in Sydney at the end of April and a recent showcase with cruise partner, Oceania Cruises.

The Travel Junction has partnered with Brand USA to create 12 new self-drive itineraries through the United States, aimed at making booking trips to the USA simple and easy.

‘If you build it, they will come,’ and that’s certainly been the reaction from Australian travel advisors following the recent debut of The Travel Junction’s new reservations call centre team.

Australia’s premier luxury travel showcase, Luxperience, has been taken over by Flight Centre Travel Group as the travel giant continues to bolster its presence in the high-end segment.

Flight Centre Travel Group’s Global MD of Luxury Leisure and Independent Brands, Danielle Galloway has revealed some of the secret sauce to the success of the Travel Associates brand, 25 years in the making.

Travel Associates’ inaugural Luxury Travel Event held in Sydney last Sunday lured a massive 70% new-to-brand visitors to the all-day event. Some 600 luxury travel experts joined Travel Associates at the event, which saw guests connect fact to face with hand-picked travel partners from luxury travel providers across cruise, touring, aviation and 5-star hotels and resorts.

B2B wholesaler, The Travel Junction, is moving from an online business to a full-service operation with a team of reservation staff available by phone and email, effective 1 May 2023, the company has announced.

Flight Centre Travel Group has appointed Nikki Glading as its latest recruit for its Independent Luxury Leisure Division. Glading has been tasked to lead the business’ growth in luxury independents, opening the doors of its collection to luxury advisors, agencies and groups as part of the division’s strategy to expand its global Luxury Travel Collection.

Adam Campbell, Global CFO of Flight Centre Travel Group says the heavy workload and long hours bestowed on the retail travel juggernaut’s travel advisors post-COVID was unsustainable

Flight Centre Travel Group (FLT) has no imminent intention to introduce its newly acquired UK-based luxury travel entity, Scott Dunn, to the Australian market, but will instead forge ahead with growth plans in its home-market, the US east coast and Singapore, senior brass from the travel juggernaut have said.

FCTG Independent continues to formalise its global leadership team with the recent appointments of Astrid Richardson to the Global Director of Operations and Allie Sparr to the Global Head of Brand and Marketing.