Posted in Community, Announcements
November 29, 2019 at 12:13
Jet2holidays has underlined its
commitment to independent travel agents, with several major announcements
during our biggest ever annual VIP conference for independent travel agents. We
also celebrated top performing agents at a prestigious gala dinner hosted by
Head of Trade Alan Cross and singer Peter Andre.

We took more than 300 top performing agents and delegates to
the AR Diamante Beach & Spa in Calpe, Costa Blanca, where we outlined our
vision for the future, launched a brand new product targeted at millennials
called VIBE by Jet2holidays, and shared plans on how we plan to
further strengthen our partnership approach to working with agents.
We revealed significant changes to our award-winning trade
website, with independent travel agents able to search for package holidays to
multiple destinations from different UK airports on Jet2holidays’
trade site. Other updates to the trade site include filtering searches by Jet2holidays’
brands, such as VIBE by Jet2holidays and Jet2CityBreaks.
To support independent travel agents during the busy January
booking season, we also announced that we will be recruiting almost 20
promotional executives between January and March, doubling the size of our
trade team and adding significant resource to help agents boost sales during a
key sales period.
The conference also included a prestigious themed gala
dinner where agents scooped awards for their tremendous achievements in helping
drive awareness and sales of Jet2holidays over the past year.
On top of that, the third edition of the popular Jet2holidays’
Got Talent, held at The Benidorm Palace, was won by Cara Murphy of Terra
Travel in Northern Ireland for the second year running.
The full list of winners are as follows:
- Top Seller for Jet2holidays
from Belfast International Airport – L&J World Travel, Derry.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from Edinburgh Airport – Ramsay
World Travel, Dundee.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from Glasgow Airport – Stewart
Travel – The Forge, Glasgow.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from Newcastle International Airport
– Dawson & Sanderson, Newcastle.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from Manchester Airport – Holiday
Getaway, Wigan.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from Leeds Bradford Airport – Idle
Travel, Bradford.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from Birmingham Airport – The
Midcounties Co-operative Travel, Walsall.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from East Midlands Airport – The
Midcounties Co-operative Travel, Derby.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays from London Stansted Airport – The
Travel Centre, Braintree.
- Top
Seller for AR Diamante Beach & Spa Hotel with Jet2holidays –
Ramsay World Travel, Aberdeen.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays Group Bookings – Cumbria Travel,
Whitehaven.
- Top
Seller for Jet2Villas - Travel By Inspire
- Top
Seller for Indulgent Escapes - Designer Travel, Ramsbottom
- Top
Seller for Jet2CityBreaks – Dawson & Sanderson,
Newcastle.
- Top
Seller for On Tour – Ramsay World Travel, Dundee.
- Best
Performing Homeworkers – Hays Travel Homeworkers
- Jet2holidays
Best
Performing Chain Southern Region (up to 10 Branches) – Sunseekers Travel,
Blackpool, Cleveleys & Kirkham.
- Jet2holidays
Best
Performing Chain Northern Region (up to 10 Branches) - Cumbria Travel.
- Jet2holidays Best Performing Chain
Southern Region (11 – 24 Branches) – Polka Dot Travel.
- Jet2holidays Best Performing Chain
Northern Region (11 – 24 Branches) – Dawson & Sanderson.
- Jet2holidays
Best
Performing Chain Southern Region (25+ Branches) – Hays Travel Retail North
West.
- Jet2holidays Best Performing Chain
Northern Region (25+ Branches) – Hays Travel Retail North East.
- Jet2holidays Best Performing Chain
for Belfast (up to 3 Branches) – Weir Travel.
- Jet2holidays Best Performing Chain
for Belfast (4+ Branches) – Clubworld Travel.
- Jet2holidays Best Overall Branch
(part of a chain) Southern Region – The Midcounties Co-operative Travel,
Walsall.
- Jet2holidays Best Overall Branch
(part of a chain) Northern Region - Dawson & Sanderson, Newcastle.
- Jet2holidays
Individual
Travel Agent of the Year – National – The Holiday & Flight Centre,
Hamilton.
- Top
Seller for Jet2holidays Essentials – The Holiday &
Flight Centre, Hamilton.
- Jet2holidays Best Newcomer for 2018
– Cumbria Travel, Carlisle.
- Best Performing Call
Centre – Affinion International Travel Limited UK
Alan Cross, Head of Trade at Jet2holidays,
said: “We have enjoyed another successful year working in partnership with independent
travel agents, and we have demonstrated how committed we are to strengthening
our relationship with them during our biggest ever annual VIP conference. With
more opportunities than ever to grow our businesses together, we are sure that
everyone came away from the conference with a real sense of how they can
increase sales and grow their businesses by working in partnership with Jet2holidays.”
If you are an independent travel agent and are interested in
learning more, visit the company’s dedicated trade site: trade.jet2holidays.com