12 Jul 2024by Emma Dooney
The luxurious tour operator mentioned the occasion is important for recognising brokers’ huge contribution to its progress over the previous few years.
Emma Dooney
Luxurious Journey Reporter
Emma Dooney
Luxurious Journey Reporter
Exsus Journey held its annual brokers awards in London in the present day, as a part of its dedication to celebrating and supporting the commerce.
The luxurious tour operator hosted greater than 70 journey advisors and 12 key suppliers at Shangri-La, The Shard, for a day of networking over canapes and champagne, adopted by a three-course meal. 9 awards, two of which had been accepted remotely, had been introduced, with every class additionally together with an honourable point out.
Chatting with TTG Luxurious, Sinziana Renciuc, director of gross sales at Exsus, hailed the brokers on the occasion as ‘simply wonderful’ and integral to its progress as an organization.
“They’ll do something for his or her purchasers,” she mentioned. “We now have quite a lot of enterprise from the identical brokers, reserving yr on yr.”
Renciuc additionally revealed that Exsus, which has skyrocketed from a £4 million to a £20 million firm because it began specializing in the commerce in 2018, now owes ‘95%’ of its enterprise to brokers.
“Day-after-day, now we have a brand new agent signing up with us. The potential is very large,” she mentioned. “Each single agent is absolutely necessary to us and we are going to ship the identical service to you – whether or not you’ve been with us for sooner or later or 5 years.” Renciuc went on to credit score the addition of Exsus’s in-house 24/7 contact line as certainly one of its ‘largest strengths’.
The High General Company for the UK went to Designer Journey, who contains greater than 150 homeworkers throughout the nation.
“Exsus are certainly one of our largest companions, so this implies a lot,” Darren Bien, head of gross sales and industrial improvement at Designer Journey, advised TTG Luxurious. “Every little thing we’re giving them, they’re giving again to us. It’s concerning the partnership. We’ve bought 150 homeworkers that each one belief Exsus.” He added that, with the Euros remaining on Sunday, celebrations can be a ‘double whammy’ this weekend.
In the meantime, Oasis Journey scooped the award for High Company for Northern Eire.
“We love working with Exsus, significantly for the quantity of flexibility, it may be very troublesome typically if you’re in Eire, working with the direct airfares out of Dublin,” Oasis managing director Sandra Corkin advised TTG Luxurious. “Exsus does that for us and packages it up, in order that they’re an excellent firm to work with. But it surely’s actually concerning the guys on the bottom who’re promoting it!”
Reshma Aggarwal of Not Simply Journey snapped up the prize for High Homeworker, after wowing judges along with her spectacular gross sales over the previous three and a half years. “It means quite a bit to win this award,” she mentioned. “Even the trickiest of itineraries, they may help me with, they usually’re very responsive. They’re my go-to luxurious provider.”
Winners at Exsus Journey Agent Awards 2024
High General Company for UK: Designer Journey
High Company for Northern Eire: Oasis Journey
High Company for the South of England: Meon Valley Journey
High Company for Scotland: Murray Journey
High Newcomer: See The World
High Homeworker: Reshma Aggarwal, Not Simply Journey
High Retail Advisor: Sally Wallis, Beaver Journey
High Workplace-based Advisor: Catherine Murphy-Birchall, The Final Journey Firm
Greatest Development in Enterprise: Abbotts Journey
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