Power List edition: The view from Multimillion-dollar travel agencies

Travel Weekly’s Power List every year tracks the sales totals of the biggest travel agencies: those companies making $100 million or more annually in travel sales. Such as: Valerie Wilson Travel, which in 2019, the last “normal” year of travel, posted $325 million in travel sales, and Conlin Travel, which reported $180.2 million.

In this week’s episode, Conlin CEO Christopher Conlin and Valerie Wilson co-president Jennifer Wilson-Buttegieg – who joined the podcast from Paris -- examined a number of topics: How their agencies responded to the travel falloff in 2020, the split of leisure and corporate-travel business, mergers and financial assistance (including Valerie Wilson’s acquisition by another Power List agency, Frosch Travel) and current trends in travel.

 

Related reading:

The 2021 Power List: An unusual list for an unusual year https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/2021-Power-List

The List: https://www.travelweekly.com/power-list-2021

Frosch and Valerie Wilson, GBT and Egencia: Mega-agency deals proliferate: https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Mega-agency-tie-ups-continue-as-pandemic-spurs-mergers-and-acquisitions-deals

 

Power List edition: The view from Multimillion-dollar travel agencies Travel Weekly&rsquo;s Power List every year tracks the sales totals of the biggest travel agencies: those companies making $100 million or more annually in travel sales. Such as: Valerie Wilson Travel, which in 2019, the last &ldquo;normal&rdquo; year of travel, posted $325 million in travel sales, and Conlin Travel, which reported $180.2 million.
In this week&rsquo;s episode, Conlin CEO Christopher Conlin and Valerie Wilson co-president Jennifer Wilson-Buttegieg &ndash; who joined the podcast from Paris -- examined a number of topics: How their agencies responded to the travel falloff in 2020, the split of leisure and corporate-travel business, mergers and financial assistance (including Valerie Wilson&rsquo;s acquisition by another Power List agency, Frosch Travel) and current trends in travel.
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Related reading:
The 2021 Power List: An unusual list for an unusual year <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/2021-Power-List">https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/2021-Power-List</a>
The List: <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/power-list-2021">https://www.travelweekly.com/power-list-2021</a>
Frosch and Valerie Wilson, GBT and Egencia: Mega-agency deals proliferate: <a href="https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Mega-agency-tie-ups-continue-as-pandemic-spurs-mergers-and-acquisitions-deals">https://www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/Travel-Agent-Issues/Mega-agency-tie-ups-continue-as-pandemic-spurs-mergers-and-acquisitions-deals</a>
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Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors explore ideas, share experiences and provide insight into what they&rsquo;ve uncovered while reporting on some of the biggest trends in travel.

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In each episode, we invite invite our team of journalists and their trusted sources to delve into major travel trends that industry insiders, or just travelers, want to know about.  

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Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.

Travel Weekly's team of reporters, editors and contributors take a deep dive into the biggest travel story of the week.&nbsp;
In each episode, we invite invite our team of journalists and their trusted sources to delve into major travel trends that industry insiders, or just travelers, want to know about. &nbsp;
You may be wondering: Why the Folo? Well, a folo -- f o l o -- is a journalism term, a kind of shorthand that basically means to follow a breaking news story with more in depth reporting and analysis. And at the Folo podcast, that's what we do.&nbsp;
Hosted by Travel Weekly managing editor Rebecca Tobin.

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