CONFERENCE NEWS


Daily Daley Deals app set to launch in September


Not Just Travel (NJT) is launching an app to enable its sales consultants to access daily deals seven days a week. The Daley Deals app will feature


Not Just Travel conference, Cirencester:Harry Kemble reports Co-founders Steve Witt


Not Just Travel invests £1m to double revenue


N


ot Just Travel (NJT) bosses have invested more than £1 million in the homeworking firm


so far this year as they look to take it to the “next level”. In the past six months, NJT


has more than doubled its head office team, recruiting 25-plus staff including partnership manager Natalie Singleton and head of trade Natalie Holder. Speaking after the company’s


three-day conference at the De Vere Cotswold Water Park at the weekend, co-founder Paul Harrison outlined the vision for NJT, whose revenue he aims to double by 2023. More than 250 homeworking


delegates at the conference heard how the “new” Not Just Travel would launch on September 1, with upgrades including new training programmes and an app featuring deals for agents also set to launch later this year.


12 16 JUNE 2022 Harrison said: “The new NJT


will offer the highest level of ongoing support, training and commission of any UK travel franchise. “Covid has allowed us to think


about the future and we’re now coming out with our exciting vision. “We’re creating new systems, new


people, new training, new resources and new opportunities. “New staff are being brought in to


create new tools and provide training and mentoring to sales consultants.” He added: “The whole theme of


the conference was our investment in you [the firm’s agents].” NJT will have a two-tiered


training programme where new sales consultants will join the NJT Training Academy before graduating to a ‘Mastery’ programme. Co-founder Steve Witt described


the programme as “a higher calibre of training for successful travel consultants”, adding that some sales


consultants earned about £30,000 a month in commission payments. The company also plans to unveil


a cruise-focused mastery programme. Harrison said the mastery


programme offered consultants “longer, more targeted” training. “It will be conducted in smaller


groups,” he added. Witt revealed a programme of


International Mastery Retreat events would also be held each year. Agents attending retreats will be


able to learn “entrepreneurial skills”. Witt added: “Ninety-nine per


cent of people who join us have never worked in travel and never worked for themselves as well.” The first International Mastery


Retreat event will take place in March 2023, Witt added. Asked whether the company was


on target to double its revenue by 2023, Witt replied: “Absolutely. It might be sooner than that.”


Daley Thompson


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and Paul Harrison with NJT conference delegates


offers from “hundreds” of suppliers that work with Hays Travel Independence Group members. Co-founder Paul Harrison said


NJT worked particularly closely with about 40 key suppliers. NJT brand ambassador and


two-time Olympic gold medallist Daley Thompson will front the app, which is set to launch in September. Speaking after the company’s


annual conference in the Cotswolds last weekend, Harrison said: “The Daley Deals app is an easy way for agents to push offers out to their contacts. [Agents] will earn commission for doing very little.” Co-founder Steve Witt said:


“We’ve not done anything like this before. This will be a real coup with all the other work that we’re doing.” Harrison said new features


would be added to the app and it would evolve from a deals platform to “an operational app” over time. The company said a “significant”


amount of money had also been invested in marketing and social media tools to help find customers and grow agents’ sales.


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