Travel Centres annual conference returns to the Mullingar Park Hotel on November 10-11, which played host to the consortium last year.
It is the consortium’s 13th conference and has grown both in size and stature since the agency grouping held its first conference at the Keadeen hotel in 2005.
The first day of the two-day event targets travel agency owners, managers and preferred suppliers with presentations and discussions.
Themes for previous year’s conferences include opera (2006, 2007), stadium bands as entertainment (2013, 2014), fancy dress (2015) and Irish themes (2016). There will be a new theme for 2017 with workshop spot prizes and gala dinner raffle.
Previous conferences were: 2005: Keadeen, Newbridge, 2006: Mount Wolseley, Tullow 2007: Castletroy, Limerick 2008: Killeshin, Portlaoise 2009: Sheraton Athlone 2010 & 2011: Clarion IFSC, Dublin (now called the Spencer hotel) 2012-4: Killashee, Naas 2015: Lyrath, Kilkenny
The consortium, is Ireland’s largest by membership with 56 separate companies who, between them, have 76 outlets.
Prominent members include:
- Ace Travel Newcastlewest,
- Avondale Travel Arklow,
- Bernard Hayes Travel Cork
- Best4Travel , Dublin and Meath,
- Bookandgo.ie, Leixlip
- Blackpool Travel Cork
- Bowe Travel Thurles,
- Brady Travel, Carrick-on-Shannon
- Cavan Travel
- Cill Dara Travel Kildare & Newbridge,
- Clondalkin Travel
- Creation Travel, Limerick
- Discover Travel, Dungarvan
- DK Travel, Nenagh,
- Douglas Travel, Cork
- East Cork Travel, Midleton,
- Eblana Travel, Galway
- Elliott Travel, Baltinglass
- Feerick Travel Aghanish, Ballinrobe
- Flyaway Travel, Ballina
- Gail Travel, Ennis
- Freedom Travel, Celbridge, & Naas
- Gail Travel, Ennis
- GTI, Donabate
- Harvey Travel, Waterford
- Heffernan’s Travel, Cork
- Hilary Murphy Travel, New Ross
- Icon Travel, Waterford
- Independent Travel, Tallaght
- JK Travel, Tullamore
- Killybegs Travel, Co. Donegal
- KT Travel , Dundalk
- Lee Travel, Cork
- Liberty Travel, Letterkenny
- Listowel Travel
- MacDonald Travel, Youghal
- Magic Vacations, Kinsale
- Marble City Travel, Kilkenny
- Meehan Travel, Bundoran
- Midland Travel, Tullamore
- Neenan Travel,
- Newbridge Travel, Co Kildare
- O’Callaghan Travel, Dundalk
- O’Hanrahan Travel, Monaghan
- Padraic Keogh Travel, Trim
- Platinum Travel, Clontarf
- Premier Travel, Cork
- Rathgar Travel
- Roscrea Travel
- Slattery Travel, Fermoy
- Society Travel, Ballinasloe
- Sol International Travel, Tralee
- Sol Falcon Travel Shop, Tralee
- Stein Travel, Tralee
- The Travel Boutique, Bray,
- Torc Travel, Killarney
- Travel Advisors, Ratoath
- TravelBooker, Ashbourne
- The Travel Broker, Clontarf
- Travel Focus , Cork
- TravelFox, Cork
- Travelworld, Dublin
- Virginia Travel, Co. Cavan
- Weir Travel, Coleraine & Ballymena
