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January 16 breaks Travel Counsellors sales records
Travel Counsellors has reported that Friday January 16 2015 was its highest sales day in the company’s 20-year history.
It said it achieved a global sales total of £2.82 million on that day, beating the previous best day of £2.6 million in January 2014.
Overall UK sales for January are up by 7% from the previous year, topping £40 million in a month.
Meanwhile, Travel Counsellors for Business saw a jump in sales of 9% on last year.
The company operates in the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, Canada and Dubai with global sales for the financial year end (October 31 2014) at £428m, an 11% increase on the previous year.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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