by Barry Higgott | Feb 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Focus Travel Partnership, the UK’s largest business travel consortium for independent TMCs, has welcomed TakeTwo Travel Solutions as its latest TMC partner. TakeTwo has established itself as an innovative global boutique TMC since entering the market in 2021. TakeTwo...
by Barry Higgott | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Favourite movie, favourite song, favourite piece of travel technology and more! Abby Penston is a Business Travel Rockstar and CEO of Focus Travel Partnership. She tells us how she started her career in travel, who inspires her, what she thinks the greatest...
by Barry Higgott | Dec 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Focus Travel Partnership, the UK’s leading business travel consortium for independent SME travel management companies, has appointed TripStax as its preferred data analytics partner. TripStax will provide its ground-breaking proprietary reporting and analytics...
by Barry Higgott | Aug 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ison Travel are the latest TMC to join the Focus Travel Partnership. The partnership, which is the UK’s leading business travel consortium for Travel Management Companies (TMCs), has taken on 3 TMCs within the last month, including Island Business Travel, Spotnana and...
by Barry Higgott | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership has added to their membership pool, recently signing new TMC Spotnana. Headquartered in New York and founded in 2020, Spotnana has experienced rapid growth whilst dealing with a global pandemic. Their move into the Focus Travel Partnership...
by Barry Higgott | Jul 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership have been awarded ‘Front of Shirt sponsorship’ for Northern Premier League (Premier Division) football team Marine FC. Based in Crosby, near Liverpool, the team will be sporting the new shirt in the new season starting in August 2022....
by Barry Higgott | Jul 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the founding TMCs of the Focus Travel Partnership has re-signed with the business travel consortium, 20 months after leaving. Island Business Travel (also known as ORTG) which operates in the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man has...
by Barry Higgott | May 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership, the UK’s leading business travel consortium has appointed Verteil Technologies as their preferred NDC aggregator. The India based travel technology company who provides a direct connect platform for a fully transparent booking experience...
by Barry Higgott | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership has recently launched a partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity (GOSH Charity). Not only will the partnership be aiming to raise money for the charity to support seriously ill children from across the UK who are...
by Barry Higgott | Mar 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership have added a ‘Brexit Counter’ to their own proprietary Duty of Care solution managed in house by the Partnership under the Focus Innovations banner. The Brexit Counter pulls GDS and profile data directly from the TMC which shows exactly...
by Barry Higgott | Mar 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
Through this agreement, TMC Partners of the Focus Travel Partnership will offer Cytric’s state-of-the-art technology for bookings to optimise business travel. Hybrid working coupled with the challenges of COVID-19 has accelerated the demand for end-to-end digital...
by Barry Higgott | Mar 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership is pleased to have agreed a formal relationship with the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) as we move into a period of recovery and bounce-back for corporate travel, including UK Rail. Focus is the leading business travel consortium for the...
by Barry Higgott | Jan 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Sadly, not all travellers are able-bodied and some may need that extra bit of help to navigate their way around an airport. I recently had my first experience of the great work that the Special Assistance teams at both Gatwick Airport and Aberdeen Airport offered...
by Barry Higgott | Jan 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership, the UK’s leading business travel consortium, has appointed three new Board Directors to join its existing Board. Tina Rose – MD of Chartwell Travel (part of the Ovation Travel Group), Nick Scott – MD of arrangeMy and Mark...
by Barry Higgott | Jan 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
We all have our strengths, some are naturally tech people, some are numbers people, some are good at languages and others are just simply creative. Being creative can cover a whole host of different meanings, but today let’s talk about your brand, how it looks and why...
by Barry Higgott | Jan 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Whilst 2021 has delivered an abundance of challenges to us all, one thing that stands out more than anything else, is the absolute resilience that our sector demonstrates on a daily basis. Despite the agonising hurdles that this pandemic has put in our pathway, time...
by Barry Higgott | Dec 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s been over two weeks since our Revival Conference in Birmingham. We ended the day on a high with a surprise for our CEO Abby Penston who takes away the ‘Special Chairman’s’ Award for 2021. Focus Chairman Adrian Parkes said ‘The last 22 months have been unique,...
by Barry Higgott | Aug 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Focus Travel Partnership who last month launched their technology division Focus Innovations has moved reTravel to preferred status. reTravel is an autonomous cross-selling technology for the travel industry designed to maximize traveler’s value. Their...
by Barry Higgott | May 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
Yasemin Thompson, who has worked for worked at Cyprus Turkish Airways Limited, British Airways and Royal Jordanian and has supported Dave Thompson, founder and Managing Director of Canterbury-based Marine Travel – UK is fundraising for the medical...
by Barry Higgott | May 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Martin Pearce, former Director at Focus Travel Partnership, is spearheading a new business development project for Focus Travel Partnership, the leading business travel consortium for the SME sector. Abby Penston, CEO of Focus Travel Partnership said: “I’m thrilled...
by Barry Higgott | Mar 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
I worked in a TMC for over 20 years, before the days of ‘just Google it’, where you shared information face to face, and you worked on problems collaboratively, in the same office location. Fast forward to 2020 and the world has changed largely to a ‘work from home’...
