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Travel Counsellors: Partnership
Travel Counsellors expanded its South Africa product trip portfolio through partnership with Sense of Africa and South Africa Tourism. Over 20 agents and support staff participated in three bespoke educational itineraries across South Africa designed to deepen destination knowledge, strengthen supplier relationships, and inspire future customer bookings.
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The leadership read
Alliances like this can broaden the sector commercial leadership bench strength.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 111.4 (Hot), up 5.2 month-on-month — shows EMEA signal flow easing (-4.4pts).
Travel Counsellors: 2 signals in the last 90 days; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 2 tracked across 37 days.
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