The Travel Corporation has overhauled its TTC Tour Brands Groups Program across Trafalgar, Trafalgar River Cruises, Insight Vacations, Costsaver and Contiki with faster confirmations, real-time inventory visibility and stackable offers for travel advisors.
The TTC Tour Brands Groups Program refresh includes Scheduled Groups, Custom Groups, Small Groups and Trafalgar River Cruises with locked-in group pricing at the time of reservation and improved two-way communication designed to help advisors secure space more efficiently.
Billed as TTC Tour Brands Groups’ most comprehensive policies refresh to date, the changes are aimed squarely at making group travel easier to book and manage for advisors and their clients with a dedicated webinar explaining the changes on 29 July 2026.
What changes for Custom Groups
Custom Groups lets advisors build fully tailored itineraries for groups of 15 or more guests, constructed from the ground up around a group’s needs and interests.
The format suits multigenerational family reunions, affinity groups and special interest travel.
Support comes from dedicated Groups Specialists with more than 50 years’ combined experience across guided holidays, custom groups and river cruises, covering itinerary planning, quoting, booking management and departure.
How Small Groups and Scheduled Groups work
For Small Groups, advisors can now place holds on groups of nine to 10 guests with additional inventory available on request. It builds on Trafalgar’s recent push into the format, launching 22 dedicated small-group itineraries capped at 18 guests.
Benefits include a five per cent group discount, 50 per cent off for the 10th guest, or the 18th guest travelling free. Small Groups are eligible for in-market discounts and can be combined with promotional offers.
The updated Scheduled Groups program simplifies deposit and release timelines and group benefits also can be combined with eligible in-market offers across the touring portfolio.
New rewards on Trafalgar River Cruises
Trafalgar River Cruises introduces its own enhanced groups offering with stackable offers, group discounts and a new Groups Amenity Points (GAP Points) rewards program.
Advisors can earn GAP Points redeemable toward onboard experiences, including beverage packages, shore excursions and onboard credit.
Further river group benefits include up to one complimentary place for every eight guests on select sailings, flexible group structures and enhanced launch benefits across 2027 departures.
TTC Tour Brands Oceania Senior Vice President Andrew Young said the TTC Tour Brands Groups Program update provides advisors with the tools to match the ambition of their groups’ business.
“This is a huge step up for our TTC Tour Brands Groups Program. We’ve listened closely to what advisors need most, and these enhancements allow agents to be more efficient with real-time visibility, faster confirmations and stronger benefits so they can book with confidence, compete on value and deliver experiences their clients will never forget,” he said.
KARRYON UNPACKS: Groups are among the highest-value, yet most time-consuming bookings an advisor handles, so real-time inventory, locked-in pricing and faster confirmations make a difference. With TTC Tour Brands Groups Program including all brands, an advisor can pitch everything from a Contiki friends’ trip to a multigenerational river sailing through one groups’ team.
