06 December 2018
In November, 900 Travel Counsellors, 200 head office support colleagues and over 400 suppliers, including Travel Counsellors Ireland’s Head Office team and 50 members of Travel Counsellors Ireland and their partners, descended on the SEC in Glasgow for Travel Counsellors’ biggest-ever Annual Global Conference.
During the action-packed three-day event, conference guests were entertained by celebrities and inspired by motivational speakers, such as six-times Olympic champion and track cyclist Sir Chris Hoy MBE. Delegates also networked with travel suppliers, including headline sponsors Emirates, Celebrity Cruises, APT, Rocky Mountaineer, Rentalcars, Club Med and Travelport.
The theme of the weekend, ‘TC Experience’, focused on the experiences that Travel Counsellors provide for their corporate and leisure travel customers, as well as exploring the business growth opportunities that individual Travel Counsellors can enjoy with the support of the tools, technology and community that the company provides.
Guests heard about the latest high-tech developments in the company including an advanced marketing system that enables Travel Counsellors to create and send highly personalised communications to customers and further enhancement of the company’s ‘myTC’ app. Also presented was an updated version of the in-house booking system Phenix, which now includes automated reminders for Travel Counsellors to contact their clients in relation to events such as birthdays and anniversaries along with upcoming travel itineraries.
Entertainment was provided by Scottish stand-up comedian Des Clarke and singer-songwriter Marti Pellow, as well as a DJ set and performance by multi-platinum selling and award-winning artist, Craig David.
Cork-based Travel Counsellor Sarah McCarthy took home the prestigious title of Top Performing Travel Counsellor in Ireland for the ninth time. Sarah, who has been with Travel Counsellors since 2006, scooped the award at the glamorous Awards and Gala Dinner event which recognises excellence within the Travel Counsellors’ global network of franchisees.
As always, it was an incredible weekend and we are already excited about what is in store for 2019! Luckily for us, we have our own Irish Annual Conference to look forward to in Powerscourt Hotel on 4th and 5th April 2019.
