Virtuoso recognised its top travel advisors and supplier/partners across six Communities at the 2023 Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas today [Saturday 12 August]. Among the winners was Australia’s own Josephine Demuth of Bayview Travel in Brighton, Victoria, who was one of five finalists from around the globe up for the accolade for Top Community Advisor.

Virtuoso Travel Week 2023 kicks off this weekend in Las Vegas, with a strong contingent from Australia and New Zealand currently en route across the Pacific to ‘Sin City’ for the 35th annual “Fashion Week of luxury travel”. Hosted at MGM Resort’s Bellagio Resort & Casino, Aria Resort & Casino and Vdara Hotel & Spa, more than 5,000 travel professionals from around the world will descend on ‘The Strip’ for the next week. LATTE too is excited to be returning to Virtuoso Travel Week as a guest of Virtuoso.

1000 Mile Travel Group shines bright at Virtuoso Travel Week 2023: Achieves record-breaking attendance

This year, thousands of luxury travel professionals from more than 100 countries will gather in Las Vegas from 12 – 18 August at Bellagio Resort & Casino, ARIA Resort & Casino and Vdara Hotel & Spa for the 35th annual Virtuoso Travel Week, with even more joining in virtually. The event attracts the world’s-best travel companies and the industry’s most influential travel agencies and advisors.

Virtuoso Asia Pacific has put the skids on its ambition to host a regional version of Virtuoso Travel Week in Australia, with concerns such an event might thin down partner participation at the annual Las Vegas show.

Demand for this year’s Virtuoso Travel Week is off to a flyer, with early registrations amassed on the first day eclipsing what was achieved in the first two weeks for the 2022 annual luxury travel fixture.

More than 5,000 luxury travel professionals from over 100 countries gathered in Las Vegas at Bellagio, Aria, and Vdara resorts for Virtuoso Travel Week in August. This week, Virtuoso released key figures from the 2022 event, per below.

The evolution of ‘working from home’ to ‘working from anywhere’ is an opportunity for luxury travel advisors to capitalise, says Anthony Goldman, Chair of the Virtuoso Global Member Advisory Board.

Virtuoso has upgraded the way it uses Wanderlist, making the platform more widely accessible to the public and now network partners.

Flight Centre Travel Group’s Premium Leisure and Independent brands, which include Travel Associates, continue to scope out opportunities for growth in market share, with the US and UK viewed as key new regions to tap into, and at pace.

Luxury travellers remain unperturbed by pandemic-induced inflated prices for holidays, a panel of travel experts has unanimously agreed during a discussion at Virtuoso Travel Week.

Last week, five Virtuoso travel advisors arrived in Los Cabos to experience the Mexican paradise, where the desert meets the sea. The group took part in a famil following Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas, where Los Cabos Tourism was recognised on the global stage, bestowed with the honour of 2022 Best Tourism Board Award.