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SALES: £68m TRAVEL LEADERS UK
1st floor, 101 St Martin’s Lane, London WC2N 4AZ 020 3394 2800
travelleadersgroup.com bwhittaker@travelleaders.com
UK business travel gross sales 2015 £68m New business 2015 £10m
Key personnel Tina Rose Managing director Barry Whittaker Executive director, business development/PR and marketing Michelle Labonte Operations manager
Main industry sectors of clients Music, entertainment, fashion, sport, insurance, financial, property and corporate SMEs.
Services offered in addition to business travel VIP concierge services, consultancy, MICE and leisure travel.
Number of transactions in 2015 850,000 Air 45% • Hotel 23% • Rail 5% • Car 2% MICE 10% • Other 15%
Transactions handled online 2.5%
Locations and networks Central London. Group headquarters in New York (Tzell and Protravel) and Plymouth (Travel Leaders). Advantage Focus, Signature (Tzell UK) and Virtuoso (Protravel).
UK full-time equivalent staff 85 Average length of service 8 years Average industry experience 10 years
Technology offering Sabre. Concur online booking tool and expense management, iBank MI reporting, and Agresso (Unit 4) global accounting system.
Biggest innovation in 2015 The successful integration of Tzell UK and Protravel under the umbrella of Travel Leaders UK.
Agency description Tzell UK and Protravel International UK opened a London office in Covent Garden in 2014, under the combined Travel Leaders group. The company has its early roots in the 19th-century US travel company Ask Mr Foster. Tzell is known particularly for its growing team of independent agents.
25 INNTEL
Inntel House, Threshelfords Business Park, Inworth Road, Feering, Essex CO5 9SE 0844 847 5500
inntel.co.uk •
jane.dibble@inntel.co.uk Twitter: @inntel_co_uk
UK business travel gross sales 2015 £62.242m
New business 2015 £9.5m
Key personnel Douglas O’Neill Managing director Mark Wheeler Director of finance Jane Dibble Director of business travel Alex Webber Director of IT Abby Penston Director of business travel
Main industry sectors of clients Transport, finance, association, charity, infrastructure and professional services (legal and accountancy).
Services offered in addition to business travel Meetings and event management, online meetings booking tools, exhibition accommodation services, group travel and VIP/concierge services.
Number of transactions in 2015 195,000 Air 28% • Hotel 30% • Rail 12% • Car 2% MICE 26% • Other 2%
Transactions handled online 57%
Locations and networks Colchester, Scotland, Swansea and Crawley. Advantage Focus and HBAA.
UK full-time equivalent staff 124 Average length of service 9.8 years Average industry experience 16 years
Technology offering Sabre. I-Central online portal (booking, managing internal meeting space, delegate management, video-conferencing and tele-conferencing). I-Care traveller tracking tool and i-Reports data portal.
Biggest innovation in 2015 In-house built-meetings management portal .
Agency description Inntel was founded as a specialist hotel accommodation agency in 1984 and has developed into what Inntel calls the UK’s “largest independent meetings and travel management company”. It has been recognised as one of the country’s top SMEs and has an acclaimed 99 per cent client-retention rate.
SALES: £62.2m
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SALES: £57.2m DIVERSITY TRAVEL
Manchester One, 53 Portland Street, Manchester M1 3LD • 0161 235 5407
diversitytravel.co.uk info@diversitytravel.co.uk Twitter: @diversity_trvl
UK business travel gross sales 2015 £57.2m New business 2015 £8.3m
Key personnel Christopher Airey Managing director Matthew Truin Operations director Sean de Lacey Head of sales Waqas Butt Finance director Przemek Koszka Head of IT and client solutions
Main industry sectors of clients Charity, academic, NGO, humanitarian and public sector.
Services offered in addition to business travel In-house visa, 24/7 service, in-house emergency support, risk management and employee tracking, MI, conference and group travel, consultancy, venue finding, expense management and carbon offsetting.
Number of transactions in 2015 154,481 Air 64.2% • Hotel 10.8% • Rail 16.6% Car 0.2% Other 8.2%
Transactions handled online 26%
Locations and networks London and Manchester. Melbourne. Raptim and LCCI. GTMC and Charity Finance Group.
UK full-time equivalent staff 116 Average length of service 4.8 years Average industry experience 9.1 years
Technology offering Travelport (Galileo) and Amadeus. You-book online-booking tool (AeTM), on-track UK rail tool (Evolvi/Trainline), mobile app (proprietary), mi-bank MI reporting tool (proprietary), pin-point employee tracking and risk management tool (Anvil), secure client portal offering online tools, visa service and traveller profile management (proprietary).
Biggest innovation in 2015 Instaquote quoting tool for multistep bookings, which won a GTMC Award for Innovation.
Agency description An award-winning TMC specialising in the charity, not-for-profit and academic sectors, offering a wide range of charity and academic airfares globally, as well as proactive account management.
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