Advisor Stories
Phil Whitehead is on track to sell £200,000 worth of travel in his second year of business, after discovering a lucrative niche through his entertainment marketing company.
Phil places his clients’ brands into feature films and TV programmes, working closely with production crews. When he realised the crews and senior executives were spending a lot of money on travel for work, he set up Elite Travel Agency in Essex with the aim of being able to offer them better deals while saving them money.
The agency was an instant success.
“I arranged the travel for a TV production where a lot of executives and crew were travelling and in total needed over 60 rooms in various places. When they saw the rates I could get, they just gave me the filming location schedule and told me to get on with it,” he said.
In the first year of business, Phil turned over £110,000 of business, and is now aiming to almost double that annual amount.
One booking, for a production visiting several countries in Europe that needs around 120 hotel rooms booked, was worth between £80,000 and £90,000. Meanwhile, he also has large bookings for trips to Wales and Edinburgh.
“Clients stopped travelling with all the restrictions [in place], but it’s really picking up now and people are keen to travel again,” said Phil.
“It is pretty busy – I find I’m doing my main job during the day, and then coming home in the evening and having lots of conversations with hoteliers. But it’s fun and I feel that I belong in that world now.”
Phil urges other agents to take advantage of the training offered by InteleTravel.
“There’s so much of [the training] and it’s free. It’s such a great resource and it really gives you confidence that you can be a successful agent,” he said.
Phil makes some bookings for friends, but after finding the right niche, he has no plans to go back to selling traditional individual or group travel.
“As I’m so busy with both businesses, I don’t really have time to concentrate on the smaller value bookings as it obviously makes sense to focus on the bigger bookings which I’ve been lucky enough to get.”
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In compliance with The Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act 1995 (Republic of Ireland), an insurance policy has been arranged with Arcus Solutions, to protect Republic of Ireland customers’ prepayments in the unlikely event of our financial failure, and paid in respect of:
Travel inclusive packages sold by the Policyholder to Republic of Ireland customers with travel departing from the United Kingdom and European Union and from Republic of Ireland for a refund of such prepayments if customers have not yet travelled, or making arrangements to enable the holiday to continue if customers have already travelled, repatriation of customers as may be applicable, subject to the terms of the insurance policy. In the unlikely event of financial failure please contact the claims helpline on +44 (0) 1702 811397. A copy of the policy is available on request. The combination of travel services offered to you is a package within the meaning of the Package Holidays & Travel Trade Act. Additionally, as required by law, InteleTravel has protection in place to refund your payments and, where transport is included in the package, to ensure your repatriation in the event that it becomes/they become insolvent”. View this policy as a PDF. For information, click Package Holidays & Travel Trade Act.
This policy is provided by: Arcus Solutions – 3 Cours Charlemagne, 69002 Lyon – SARL au capital de 1 000€ – Téléphone: +44 (0) 207 065 5300. www.arcus-solutions.fr RCS de Lyon n°853 774 529 – Code APE n°6622Z – ORIAS n°19006898. Le registre des intermédiaires d’assurances est tenu à jour par l’ORIAS disponible sur www.orias.fr Entreprise régie par le Code des Assurances et soumise au contrôle de l’ACPR – 4 place de Budapest, CS 92459, 75436 Paris Cedex 09 RC Professionnelle et Garantie Financière conformes aux articles L. 512-6 et L. 512-7 du Code des Assurances.
This policy is underwritten by: Accelerant Insurance Europe SA registered and authorised by the National Bank of Belgium and regulated by the Financial Services and Markets Authority (Ref. 3193), Acting in Ireland under Freedom of Services.
The combination of travel services offered to you is a package within the meaning of the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018. Additionally, as required by law, InteleTravel has protection in place to refund your payments and, where transport is included in the package, to ensure your repatriation in the event that it becomes/they become insolvent”. For information, click Package Holidays & Travel Trade Act.
These can be subject to change, especially if your holiday is booked well in advance. In compliance with the Package Holidays & Travel Trade Act, we are obliged to inform you of these changes as soon as we receive them. If the changes have a considerable effect on the travel arrangements, customers are legally entitled to a refund or credit without penalty. For the most up-to-date travel advice, please visit https://www.dfa.ie/travel/travel-advice/ Many countries update their regulations frequently: please refer to the website for medical and travel information, prior to departure. Ensure you have adequate travel insurance.
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This policy is provided by: Arcus Solutions – 3 Cours Charlemagne, 69002 Lyon – SARL au capital de 1 000€ – Téléphone: +44 (0) 207 0655300. www.arcus-solutions.fr RCS de Lyon n°853 774 529 – Code APE n°6622Z – ORIAS n°19006898. Le registre des intermédiaires d’assurances est tenu à jour par l’ORIAS disponible sur www.orias.fr Entreprise régie par le Code des Assurances et soumise au contrôle de l’ACPR – 4 place de Budapest, CS 92459, 75436 Paris Cedex 09. RC Professionnelle et Garantie Financière conformes aux articles L. 512-6 et L. 512-7 du Code des Assurances.
This policy is underwritten by: Accelerant Insurance Europe SA registered and authorised by the National Bank of Belgium and regulated by the Financial Services and Markets Authority (Ref. 3193), Acting in Ireland under Freedom of Services.
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