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Are you considering a career as a home-based travel advisor? With the right experience and support it can be a successful venture – and the best part is, you get to define “success”. Building your own business that is perfectly tailored to your lifestyle and goals could be the exciting next step in your career, […]

Connection sits at the heart of our industry. In the richness of life, true wealth lies in the value of our connections. This is why we have chosen Connection as this year’s theme for our annual national conference, to be held in Hobart this August. We asked our Executive General Manager, Michael Gazal, to tell […]

In early December 2025, a group of personal travel managers and members of our National Partnership Office team attended Signature Travel Network’s annual conference in Las Vegas. We asked our Marketing Manager, Tania Myles, to share her thoughts on her first Signature conference and explain what’s so special about the event, which attracts thousands of […]

Our National Partnership Office (NPO) team frequently moves mountains to support our personal travel managers (PTMs) in every aspect of their businesses. A lot of their work takes place behind the scenes with little fanfare, which makes it even more memorable when their efforts are publicly recognised at a national level. Earlier this year, we […]

Any business is only as good as the people in it, and at TravelManagers, we are lucky to have a deep pool of talent, not just within our network of personal travel managers (PTMs), but also across our National Partnership Office (NPO) team. Our state-based Business Partnership Managers (BPMs) spend a lot of their time […]

Over the years, we’ve gathered in a variety of incredible destinations for our annual national conference, from Bali and Honolulu to Darwin and Bangkok, and in 2026, we’re off to Tasmania! What’s so special about this event that has many attendees describing it as the ‘highlight of their year’? We like to think it’s the […]

Our partnership with the luxury travel provider, Signature Travel Network, is integral to supporting our national network of personal travel managers (PTMs) in creating bespoke luxury travel solutions for their clients. Australia’s luxury leisure travel sector has been reported to be worth close to ten billion dollars from 2024-2025. We asked our Operations Manager, Troy […]

Three years ago, when Darwin-based personal travel manager (PTM), Lisa Malnar, set out to create the Darwin Travel Festival, she quickly realised that she would need connect with other local travel advisors that would share both her vision and her workload. As the only Darwin-based PTM within TravelManagers’ national network of more than 500 PTMs, […]

Lisa Metzl has clocked up an astonishing twenty years as a member of the TravelManagers family, and one of our longest-serving personal travel managers (PTMs). We sat down with Lisa to ask her what makes TravelManagers special, and why, after more than two decades as a home-based travel advisor, she still believes that there’s no […]