Smartflyer Australia, Goldman Group’s venture with Smartflyer USA and partners Brent Wallace and Stuart Reay, has reported experiencing significant growth in numbers and business rebound in the past four months.

Discerning Traveller is now offering clients the ability to book cruise packages online with live integration to cruise line partners. The family-operated member of the Virtuoso network says it is the first Australian dedicated luxury and experiential travel agent to offer the service.

Sydney-based agency Spencer Travel Leisure has launched a new division centred around health and wellbeing – a segment of the industry Managing Director Penny Spencer predicts will surge as domestic and international travel resumes.

Savenio has made further tweaks to its recently realigned commission models in a bid to encourage some of the thousands of undecided travel advisors back into the industry.

Virtuoso is bolstering its focus on the cruise market, announcing the recruitment of highly-regarded luxury cruise specialist Melissa Araya, and revealing that next year’s annual Symposium will be held aboard Silversea Cruises’ new ship, Silver Dawn, in March 2022.

Virtuoso has introduced a “Travel Basics” online training program overseas for travel advisors who are new to the industry.

Sydney-based Spencer Travel has this week launched a new website as part of the company’s rebrand to Spencer Travel Leisure.

Partnerships are proving to be a powerful asset for the freshly minted Sequoia Lodge in the Adelaide Hills. A number of local, regional, national and global alliances have already been bedded down, including a partnership with luxury travel network Virtuoso, and others are in the pipeline.

Nordic tour specialist 50 Degrees North has partnered with award-winning photographer, David Evans, to launch a brand-new escorted photography tour of Finland and Norway.

Luxury specialty agency, Savenio, has confirmed it will join the Magellan Travel network effective 1 October 2021.

Virtuoso concluded its 33rd annual Virtuoso Travel Week with an elegant evening of recognition and remembrance, honouring individuals and entities that have gone above and beyond to assist others during the travel industry’s most harrowing time.

South Australia’s long-awaited luxury lodge, Sequoia, has officially opened in the Adelaide Hills this week.