Welcome to our news and insights hub where we regularly share views and updates on a range of travel industry regulation, finance and strategy topics. We hope you find it useful, and if you’d like to discuss any of the insights or issues we raise, please get in touch.
At the 2019 Barclays Travel Forum, TTC Director Martin Alcock joined Paul Carter, CEO of Hotelplan and Petar Cetnik, Senior Risk Manager at Barclaycard to discuss how the travel industry was coping with the Brexit delay.
TTC Director Martin Alcock presents a session looking at economic and geopolitical trends and the impact on consumer confidence and the travel marketplace.
We're looking forward to taking part in this year's Barclays Travel Forum on 22 May 2019 at One Great George Street in Westminster.
What are the key issues that are expected to drive M&A activity this year? Hear finance experts discuss trends in the travel industry – understand the current deal environment and outlook for the M&A market.
Read TTC Director Martin Alcock's latest post for TTG Media.
Right now though, the UK travel industry is dealing with a different sort of Google headache, this time related to the increasing cost of Google Ads.
A sign of the tough market conditions is the re-emergence of aggressive low deposit schemes.
TTC's Martin Alcock, was on stage at the 2019 ABTA Finance Conference, discussing some of the current issues facing the outbound travel sector, and highlighting 3 current trends.
Many travel companies (including some large ones who really should know better!) will happily copy their T&Cs from an unmodified, off the shelf template or from a competitor in order to save a few quid in legal fees.
If you were trying to sell a travel business twenty years ago, you only needed to make two phone calls.
Stewart Travel has completed a management buyout (MBO) and acquired Lapland specialist Canterbury Travel.
The award-winning travel company, Journey Latin America has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by DER Touristik UK.
The info-graph below shows a selection of recent transactions in the UK travel sector by each investment stage.
We're delighted to announce we will be hosting a Mergers & Acquisitions Workshop at The ABTA Travel Convention in Seville on 9 October 2018.
Leaving renewals till September is always a bit risky. The equivalent of doing your homework the night before term starts. However, this year there are some added complications that mean you can’t just copy what you did last year on the morning bus.
