Business Partnership Managers

Joining TravelManagers in 2016, I am a seasoned professional with over 20 years in the travel industry.

I bring a unique and diverse set of skills to my current role, and my background includes various roles – state business development and sales manager for a luxury cruise line, groups coordinating manager, fares, ticketing and BSP reporting officer and senior international travel consultant, to name a few.

I’ve successfully managed multi-million dollar accounts, and I believe the key to succeeding in business is having both passion and determination. Nothing inspires me more than working with a personal travel manager as they grow and prosper in their own travel business.

Working for TravelManagers allows me to successfully wear ‘many hats’ where I am able to partner, mentor and work alongside personal travel managers who also live my ethos in their businesses – passion and determination.

I’m a creative at heart and hold Diplomas in Tourism Operational Management and Marketing, Certificate III in Creative Writing, Diploma from the Australian Television and Film Academy, and am currently undertaking a Bachelor in Business and Accounting.

My approach to business mentoring is both authentic and genuine and I have travelled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, North America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

Travel is my passion – it is one of the great loves of my life!

Give me a call to discuss your travel career.

My career at TravelManagers began in 2017 and was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

To be part of a culture that is all about its people, encouraging all to be best they can be and contributing to the success of our personal travel managers to achieve their goals is both satisfying and rewarding.

I’ve been in the travel industry since 1990 where I worked for a major airline, during that time my roles included, groups consultant and account executive focusing on the MICE market and later, account manager industry sales where I was the first point of contact for many travel agents in Victoria.

Throughout my career, I’ve worked with high profile and emerging companies across all levels of management and I believe that delivering outstanding customer service and building positive relationships has been my success.

I’m enthusiastic, highly motivated, and people describe me as a well-rounded professional. I’ve a passion for meeting targets, winning business and bringing people together and love being part of a team. My wealth of experience within business development and account management in travel and aviation can be drawn upon and I’m always excited to share my experience with our personal travel managers.

I’m passionate about the travel industry and love the opportunities and challenges that come along with it. Developing relationships, establishing new ones and working closely with all the personal travel managers is something I thrive on.

I began my career in travel straight out of high school, when I wanted not only to travel the world myself, but help people get the most out of their own travel experiences.

From the late 1980s and into the early 90’s I worked in Australia and then the United Kingdom as a consultant for a variety of retail travel agencies, including Traveland, Jetset and Amex. In 1993, I finally settled into what ultimately became a 17-year career with Flight Centre Limited. This traversed a variety of roles and responsibilities including retail team leader, corporate team leader, area leader and also brand manager for Overseas Working Holidays.

To expand my skill set, I spent 7 years in real estate and government roles, improving my logistical and management capabilities in different environments. Naturally, the call to return to travel had to be answered and it is “good to be home” once again, this time with Travel Managers.

As a business partnership manager, I’m passionate about helping people grow both personally and professionally. I pride myself on being authentic, down to earth and direct with people. I see my role as helping you get the most out of your business and having a strong track record of managing businesses both within and outside of travel, I know what it takes to be successful.

I’ll be there to give you whatever support you need, whenever its needed.

I am delighted to have started with TravelManagers in August 2022 at such an exciting time as the industry rebounds from the most challenging time in the history of the tourism and travel sector – and the world in general.

My travel career started over 35 years ago and I still have the same drive and passion that brought me to this amazing industry all those years ago.

It has given me the opportunity to work in many diverse roles including a travel agent; various airline positions; with a GDS; as a state franchise manager; a business owner running a tour guide operation and a general manager for a home-based travel company internationally. I have lived in most Australian states as well as Christchurch and more recently Dubai.

I have travelled extensively and been fortunate to visit many interesting countries with a love of the ‘off-the-beaten-track’ and am an enthusiast of all things cruising.

I hold an Advanced Diploma in Travel and Tourism, but most of my qualifications have been gained by experience in certain roles and on-the-job training.

One of the joys for me in my career has been to attract, guide, nurture and mentor others into and through a career in the wonderful world of travel and see them have the same brilliant experiences and opportunities I have been so fortunate to have had.

TravelManagers is an amazing company that offers endless options for a person wanting to be a business owner in travel knowing that they have the backing of an award winning company with dedicated support staff to help them along on their journey.

Hi, I’m Alison (known as Ali), I have been part of the Business Partnership Team at TravelManagers for nearly 12 years. After initially graduating and working as a teacher, my first-hand travel experience as an exchange student and then as a European Tour Director led me to the travel and tourism industry where I’ve worked passionately for over 27 years, with a 17 month hiatus into the world of cycling (my other passion) as Membership Manager at WestCycle, from August 2021 – December 2022.

My previous roles of Travel Consultant, Agency Manager, Business Development Manager for a major tour company and Senior Sales Executive for an international airline prepared me perfectly to be a Business Partnership Manager where I’ve assisted personal travel managers in building their successful mobile travel businesses in WA and SA (and NT and TAS over the years).

From assisting new personal travel managers with marketing ideas to providing an analytical approach and strategic planning to facilitate business growth and development, this variety, challenge and reward inspires me on a daily basis.

I’ve travelled widely, having lived overseas for six years, working in the UK and Europe and leading tours in Europe, Russia, Scandinavia and parts of the Middle East as well as here in Australia. After extensive independent travel throughout the US, Canada, Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, South America and Antarctica, in early 2020, I enjoyed my first mountain-biking holiday in New Zealand, (luckily making it home just prior to the advent of the Covid-19 lockdown).

Excited to have now visited all 7 continents, I enjoy passing this experience and first-hand destination knowledge on to everyone who shares my passion of seeing (and perhaps even “riding”) the world.