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Broadway Travel reveals major expansion plans
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
Broadway Travel Service has revealed plans to expand its consortium, bed bank and cruise businesses over the next 12 months.
Growth plans were due to be
unveiled this week at the group’s conference in Madeira, where managing director Adam Pardini was set to reveal that the 12 months to September 30 were Broadway’s most successful year. Speaking ahead of the event,
he said: “The areas we want to grow are the consortium and
Bedswithease.com. “Cruise will also be a big focus
of what we do in the next 12 months. We want to recruit someone to grow these parts of the business. There are opportunities we need to look at.” Broadway’s consortium has
five members, a figure it aims to increase to 10 or 12 “quality” members within two years. Pardini revealed the group was
in talks with potential members. “We are some way down the line with a couple,” he said. “Ideally, we
Titan boss Willis to join Scott Dunn as sales director
Titan Holidays managing director Jackie Willis is leaving the touring specialist to take up a role as sales and services director at luxury operator Scott Dunn next month. Willis (pictured), who has been with Titan for 10 years, will be succeeded by her second in command, product and operations director Andy Squirrell.
want two more in the next year.” The consortium includes online
and call centre agencies and homeworkers, predominantly in the dynamic packaging market, with turnovers of between £8 million and £20 million. Pardini said Broadway Travel
Service could now focus attention on the consortium, having completed the integration of Qwerty Travel parent firm Travel Interaction, acquired last year. “We are now wholeheartedly
looking to grow [consortium] membership and help our members grow their businesses,” he added. The group aims to “significantly
increase” Bedswithease’s sales through agents. “It’s not necessarily in terms of the number of agents we work with but in terms of productivity from agents,” said Pardini.
Squirrell joined Titan in 2003 and will become commercial director in the restructure, a title Willis held for many years while running the business. Willis said: “It’s a good
stepping stone for Andy to become commercial director first. He’ll get that under his belt and will evolve naturally into managing director, just as I did. But the MD title never
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travelweekly.co.uk 15 October 2015 PARDINI: ‘Opportunities to look at’ There are also plans to expand
cruise agency Broadway Cruise, which was set up last year, by entering the dynamic packaging market. “We are looking to go into
the dynamic packaging market, which we have not done so far, while strengthening what we do with operators selling traditional packages,” he said.
changed my day-to-day role, it was just a formality. “We’re lucky at Titan
that we’re a small, close and experienced team. There’s real expertise throughout and
everyone will just move up the ladder and slot into the role above.” Squirrell said the changes would have no impact on Titan’s relationship with agents.
“We want to grow the consortium and
Bedswithease.com. Cruise will also be a big focus for us”
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