It’s quality over quantity over at TravelManagers, but when the company is halfway to reaching 1,000 Agents, there’s definitely a reason to celebrate.
This week, the home-based agency signed its 500th personal travel manager… Corinne Mutz.
Corinne, the South Australian representative for Upper Sturt, returns to the company after first joining in 2009. She said it was the flexibility of working from home that lured her back to the business.
She returns at a good time, with the American Society of Travel Agents confirming home-based is the way of the future for Agents, with 44 percent of the group’s membership now working from home.
TravelManagers’ Executive General Manager, Michael Gazal, said he’s thrilled with Corrine’s return and the company’s achievement.
“As the largest network of personal travel managers nationwide TravelManagers is in the enviable position of being the market leader in a business sector that is experiencing accelerated growth and at the forefront, not only of home-based consulting but of providing essential support services to clients as well,” he said.
Mutz said she was constantly comparing her previous employer to TravelManagers and realised over time that it was where she wanted to be.
“TravelManagers are light years ahead of any other travel advisor.”
Corinne Mutz, Personal Travel Manager
“Travel agencies try to emulate the TravelManagers model but the support, systems, technology and expertise they offer is state of the art and is the result of many years of experience and constant learning and refinement, which simply can’t be replicated.”
As much as Mutz missed the TravelManagers’ systems, rules and professionalism it was her colleagues that she missed most.
“I realised that the systems and rules were in place to ensure financial security for our clients and our own benefit,” she said.
“I also really missed my colleagues, we were a close knit group and even though I kept in contact with a few of them it just wasn’t the same.”