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Recruitment push for Advantage Managed Services scheme
Advantage is looking to double membership of its Advantage Managed Services scheme by the end of this financial year.
It says AMS, which provides agents with back and front office systems, business consultancy, bonding and integrated marketing campaigns, is now ready for a recruitment push.
Advantage business development director Colin O’Neill said the scheme, launched around two years ago, currently has 20 members.
"We’ve spent time getting the infrastructure right and we know it’s competitively priced. Over the next year and beyond we will be looking to grow the membership. We certainly see ourselves doubling membership by October," he said.
AMS has just signed homeworking business The Travel Concept in Tunbridge Wells, a luxury specialist run by Bianca Wassell and Tracy Felstead.
O’Neill said there were another two or three agencies currently in discussions about joining.
The scheme is mainly aimed at leisure agents but Advantage will shortly launch a scheme for corporate travel agents.
O’Neill said for both leisure and business agents, the scheme is aimed at new entrants to the industry who don’t want the administrative and legislative burden, or those approaching retirement age who want to exit the business.
"It means they can leave it to another member of staff who can take it on but who doesn’t want to have the administrative burden," he explained.
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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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