PTMs recognised for five year service (from top centre): Richard Le Comte (Cleveland, QLD); Irena Bryant (North Epping, NSW); Bec Crosbie (Alfredton, VIC); Rebecca Harrison (Brookfield, QLD); Dionne Smith Girards Hill, NSW) and Lucrezia Caruso (Athelstone, South Australia)
TravelManagers recognised 36 personal travel managers for their five-year service at the latest round of bi-annual state meetings across Australia, with a total of 149 personal travel managers (more than 30 per cent) achieving this status.
“TravelManagers is a company that really cares about its people and recognising talent and providing opportunities for growth is of absolute importance to us,” said executive general manager Michael Gazal.
“We provide training, famils, technical support and mentorship, amongst other things. The ability to be your own boss with the freedom and flexibility to work how and when you choose, we know works.”
The November state meetings were held in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane, attended by 262 PTMs and 22 national partnership office staff and three partner suppliers.
“As much as the personal managers love the networking aspect, the key focus for these bi-annual state meetings is ensuring everybody is kept up to date with developments in our business,” said Gazal.
“These meetings are designed to complement our national annual conference as we believe consistency and providing relevance and adding value is the reason we obtain extremely high participation rates across all states.”
Mark Carter, formerly a Contiki Holidays European tour director and industry trainer, delivered the keynote presentation on value and success.
“Mark’s presentation was excellent, as he made you review your business ideas and ways of dealing with your clients,” said Peter Carmichael, representative for Merewether, New South Wales.
Marketing manager Chrissy Tayfield provided an update on what’s new in marketing, followed by group activities providing a series of ‘real life’ marketing scenarios.
Gazal said the state meetings are a winning formula with PTMs.
“The feedback over the years from our personal travel managers has always been that our inclusive strategy, strong business focused agenda, large contingent from our national partnership office and hosting by our locally based business partnership managers really works,” he said.
A virtual state meeting was held via webinar for the personal travel managers who could not attend in person.
“We follow up with a webinar so that everyone has the opportunity to be part of the team process and across new developments,” said Gazal.
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