TravelManagers is reported to be hugely excited about 2010 and why wouldn't they. With a flood of milestones and key events it appears they have not only grown but developed into a healthy, profitable and holistic company that has a strong focus on developing its personal travel managers.
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January |
Expansion of online forums via the intranet |
Increased forums from three to six and achieved a 97 percent average monthly intranet usage by personal travel managers |
February |
Appointment of the first business partnership manager |
Appointed in Victoria |
March |
Release of a local marketing manual for our personal travel managers |
The most comprehensive local marketing kit available in the home-based consulting arena |
March |
Personal travel managers receive awards at the Travel Weekly Australian Travel Awards |
Best Travel Consultant Asia - Aileen Collins
Best Travel Consultant South America - Sue Kuti
Highly Commended Europe & United Kingdom - John Lengacher |
April |
Commencement of weekly online Webinar training programme |
The first courses being booked out within minutes of being made available |
April |
Second business partnership manager appointed |
Appointed in Queensland |
May |
New marketing initiative produced |
The first 'Personal Travel Catalogues' produced and sent, now occur on a quarterly basis |
June |
New marketing initiative introduced |
The first centrally produced individually addressed 'Personally Yours' eNewsletter is dispatched to 6000 personal travel manager clients from their individual address without any action required by the them. Occurs fortnightly |
June |
Third business partnership manager appointed |
Appointed in New South Wales |
July |
Web based development |
Introduction of a remote web based robotic ticketing system |
July |
National Travel Industry Award nomination |
TravelManagers becomes a finalist for the best multi-location retail agency |
August |
Website development |
A new look consumer website, together with individual personal travel manager? web-pages is launched |
September |
Announcement of a specialist personal travel manager programme |
The programme includes online training modules and destination famils for qualifying personal travel managers |
October |
Departure of dedicated TravelManagers famils as part of the specialist programme |
Destinations included Oman and California/Las Vegas |
October |
200th personal travel manager is recruited |
The end of year figure was 210 personal travel managers |
November |
The second national conference is held |
TravelManagers gather at the Marriott Resort at Surfers Paradise |
December |
Departure of TravelManagers 4th dedicated destination and product famil |
Exclusive itinerary as part of 'Fiji Me' mega agents educational |
In addition to this, Mr. Araullo says financially TravelManagers had a successful year financially.
"Sales were up a healthy 32 percent on 2008 and given this crosses over the toughest period of the global financial crisis in Australia, we are all extremely thrilled with the result."
Mr. Araullo says contributing to the large year on year sales increase was the fact that TravelManagers had record sales months on five occasions in 2009.
