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3 January 2018 Posted InAll Releases Community
While most Australian’s enjoyed their Christmas surrounded by family, swapping presents and indulging in a feast fit for a king; for Sydney’s homeless, poor and at-risk families, Christmas was not necessarily a time of joy.

TravelManagers’ Maria San Pascual (left) and Sandra Reucker (right) deliver donated cans of food to Pauline Tighe The Exodus Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer
But thanks to the generous support of TravelManagers and Hoot Holidays who collectively donated over 200 cans of food to...
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6 December 2017 Posted InAll Releases
Personal travel managers (PTMs) are in the business because of their love of travel: exploring new destinations and returning to old favourites. Whilst much of their work life is spent indulging this love vicariously by helping their clients to book the holidays of their dreams, one of the undisputed perks of the job is the opportunity to take part in educational trips to every corner of the Earth, without paying the Earth for the pleasure.

The Lunn’s discover the beauty of the Yukon in Canada - the Miles Canyon Basalts are truly spectacular.
Sometimes, they even get to take a non-industry travel companion with them, as was the case recently for TravelManagers’ Julie...
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4 November 2017 Posted InAll Releases Events Network TravelManagers
At TravelManagers, behind every good personal travel manager (PTM) there is a team of dedicated people whose job it is to provide finance, marketing, technology and business support so that PTMs can focus on delivering the best possible service to their clients. This year, as well as eleven PTMs who celebrate ten years with the company are three of those support staff, who have been alongside the PTMs every step of the way.

Celebrating ten years of loyal service to TravelManagers are Pru Gallagher, Maria San Pascual and Tanyu Cilek, pictured with Executive General Manager Michael Gazal and CEO Joe Araullo
As TravelManagers’ Executive General Manager, Michael Gazal explains, “Our PTMs work hard to build up successful businesses, but as a...
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2 November 2017 Posted InAll Releases
TravelManagers’ personal travel managers (PTMs) Kim Mason representative from Cronulla in Sydney and Nakita Byrne from Mount Arthur in Dubbo has been nominated as finalists for this year’s 2017 Avis Travel Agents Scholarship of Excellence.
For the first time in twenty-one years, all four finalists, three from Australia and one from New Zealand are home...
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31 October 2017 Posted InAll Releases
A select group of personal travel managers (PTMs) recently experienced an exclusive TravelManagers famil on the Indian Pacific hosted by partner supplier Great Southern Rail.

All Aboard! TravelManagers’ personal travel managers ready for adventure, from left: Sarah Harington, Maria Pandalai, Simone Fraser, Heather Taylor, Hilary Packer, Josh Faddoul, Phil Kimberlee, Anne-Maree Selmo, Judy Gillings and Cathy Moir.
The ten PTMs, Joshua Faddoul representative for Adelaide, Judy Gillings representative for Bateau Bay, Cathy Moir representative for Gymea Bay,...
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23 October 2017 Posted InAll Releases Network TravelManagers
TravelManagers’ personal travel managers (PTMs), national partnership office (NPO) staff and a handful of partner suppliers joined forces across the country recently, as they tested their general knowledge regionally, in a series of ‘battle of the brains’ style trivia nights.

Winning_table: Trivia Champions in Melbourne - from left Michael Gazal (NPO) and personal travel managers Anne Maree Selmo, Sharon Wright, Fiona Elliot, Lyn Watkins, Lisa King, Wendy Krukowitch and Karin Evert.
TravelManagers’ personal travel managers (PTMs), national partnership office (NPO) staff and a handful of partner suppliers joined forces across the...
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9 October 2017 Posted InAll Releases Network TravelManagers
TravelManagers is a company who truly value their personal travel managers (PTMs). With a commitment to personal development and training highly evident, TravelManagers recently combined corporate training with a luxury and experiential focused workshop with the view to further equip its PTMs to benefit from the current increase in bleisure travel.

TravelManagers’ Adelaide PTMs enjoy exclusive luxury product training with Ensemble Travel (from left to right) Simon Alcaraz (NPO), Corinne Mutz, Mandy Bradtke, John LaBella, Catherine James, Briony Bullard, Philippa Williams, and Katy Muyt (Ensemble)
Ensemble Travel Group, TravelManagers’ North American-based partner supplier with a wide portfolio of global luxury and experiential travel products including...
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27 September 2017 Posted InAll Releases
TravelManagers further enhances its reputation as an innovative company that has a ‘serious about business but also likes to have fun’ philosophy, following the release of its latest YouTube video ‘ONE day in the life of TravelManagers’.

Glen Campbell lookalike Michael Gazal also doubles as TravelManagers’ Executive General Manager. Here he is leading the NPO support team off to the 2017 conference
The original version of the video and this Utube spinoff were created by Outshine Productions’ David Price in collaboration with...
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20 September 2017 Posted InAll Releases Network TravelManagers
Milestones are worthy of recognition and for DriveAway Holidays, their ten-year partnership with TravelManagers is something to celebrate.

DriveAway Holidays' NSW & ACT Business Development Manager Blake Wiggins (right) presents TravelManagers Michael Gazal and Sandra Reucker with ten-year partnership award.
DriveAway recently awarded TravelManagers a Partnership Award to commemorate a decade partnership and recognising the significant sales contribution of well...
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10 September 2017 Posted InAll Releases
TravelManagers’ annual national conference wrapped up its final day in Darwin on Saturday evening with a gala awards dinner that celebrated the successes of the previous year. As the personal travel managers (PTMs) return home to start another working week, they are filled with fresh enthusiasm from what was, by all reports, a very successful weekend.

“PTMs wow’ed by Darwin sunset at conference 2017 …… and excited to experience a Hawaiian sunset in 2018”
According to TravelManagers’ Executive General Manager, Michael Gazal, the main goal of annual national conferences is to help PTMs build...
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