Luxury Escapes has officially launched the Luxury Escapes Agent Hub, foreshadowed by the Melbourne-based travel player in January.

Luxury Escapes is preparing to launch a new industry booking portal available to tens of thousands of travel advisors around Australia. The Melbourne-based firm says the launch comes in response to ongoing industry demand for access to Luxury Escapes travel deals.

Luxury Escapes has announced a new exclusive partnership with Abercrombie & Kent, amid a global surge in travel touring, with Luxury Escapes seeing close to a 40% increase in tour bookings in 2023.

Luxury Escapes has bolstered its touring program via a new partnership with The Travel Corporation. Effective from today, Luxury Escapes will offer travellers in Australia and the USA luxury coach holidays with The Travel Corporation’s brands including Insight Vacations, Luxury Gold, AAT Kings and Inspiring Journeys. Other brands include Trafalgar, and in the future, Costsaver and Contiki will be available on Cudo, Deals, Scoopon and Treat Me platforms.

Luxury Escapes today released its Travel 2020: Forecasting the new decade of travel report which looks at how Australians will travel over the next 10 years. A glimpse of the study was revealed by LATTE in September. Surveying close to 20,000 Australian travellers, the report is one of the largest travel industry consumer reports in 2019. Luxury Escapes engaged research firm Nature to undertake the research, surveying their own customer base of 3.2 million members, along with a broader cohort of Australian consumers.

In-house research has revealed Hawaii as the number one destination Australian customers are booking through travel e-commerce specialist, Luxury Escapes. More than 40% of Luxury Escapes’ customers say they want to travel to the Aloha State, says CEO Cameron Holland.

Travel e-commerce specialist Luxury Escapes will look to lay foundations in markets in North Asia, China and Europe in the next year.

Luxury Escapes has introduced a new Experiences vertical to its product line-up. The collection comprises a list of cultural immersions, cuisine adventures, health and wellness treatments, explorations, transfers, VIP lounge access and other luxury add-ons.

As part of an ongoing strategy to add new products to its inventory, Luxury Escapes has secured three private European river cruise charter sailings through Cruise Commerce.

Travel e-commerce specialist Luxury Escapes this week confirmed its second travel agency partnership, forging ties with italktravel and cruise. The arrangement to provide italktravel consultants around the county with its suite of offers follows Luxury Escapes’ initial tie-up with TravelManagers Australia in mid August, following six months of negotiation.

italktravel travel and cruise (part of Express Travel Group) and online travel provider, Luxury Escapes, have forged an exclusive retail travel partnership agreement. Effective 01 October 2018 the partnership will see Luxury Escapes’ travel packages and promotions distributed through the italktravel and cruise agency network.

This week it was revealed that personal travel managers (PTMs) from the TravelManagers Australia network would be able to sell and earn commission on packages available through travel e-commerce company, Luxury Escapes, as part of a new supplier partnership announced at the group’s annual national conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, last weekend.