More than 250 Travel Associates business leaders and advisors walked the purple carpet at The Emporium Hotel on Saturday 8 July for the brand’s annual Gala Awards. The silver service luncheon celebrated the most-successful year the business has experienced in its 25-year history and the incredible performance of its one-of-a-kind expert advisors and business leaders.

Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) and Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) have inked an exclusive partnership to enhance the expertise of the travel giant’s entire consultant and independent network in Australia and New Zealand. Under the arrangement, sellers within each brand and cruise specialists will gain access to CLIA’s cruise industry training.

Last Friday, Travel Associates hosted the first of four exclusive events in partnership with Regent Seven Seas Cruises to showcase the luxury cruise brand’s 2025/26 Voyage Collection.

Five Travel Associates advisors this month completed a week-long educational in Greece, and to say it was action-packed would be an understatement.

Flight Centre Travel Group’s top-end stable is set for further acquisitions and partnerships within and beyond the travelsphere

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.

Explora Journeys took trade partners sky high in Singapore on Tuesday evening, hosting a dinner in a private room at Artemis Grill’s CapitaGreen Rooftop, Level 40, as part of the International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) Asia Pacific.

Travel Associates has unveiled a signature collection of one-of-a-kind, luxury activities under the branding of “Experiences by Travel Associates”. The handpicked experiences are available to clients of a Travel Associates advisor.

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.

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.

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