Colletts Travel will maintain its distinct brand identity within Travel Leaders UK alongside Protravel and Tzell.
Established in 1983 by Roy Collett, Colletts Travel today has grown into one of the UK’s most respected luxury travel agencies and in August last year was named as the "Top Virtuoso Network Production" member for the Europe, Middle East and Africa at Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas.
With an annual turnover of £45 million, Colletts Travel is headquartered in the London suburb of Hendon, and it employs 48 staff across its three London-area offices, as well as in Lancashire.
Roy Collett and Michael Berlin, who each serve as managing directors, will report to Travel Leaders UK President Gail Grimmett. Grimmett reports to Ninan Chacko, chief executive at the US-based Travel Leaders Group, which has an annual turnover of more than £17 billion through its agency operations globally.
“After 33 years of trading, Michael Berlin and I decided that the best path forward to accelerate Colletts Travel’s growth was to secure the backing of a major travel company in the US. As the largest traditional travel agency enterprise in North America, Travel Leaders Group will dramatically heighten the array of offerings we can provide to our discerning clientele,” said Collett.
“We are thrilled to welcome Colletts Travel – along with its leadership, its highly skilled luxury travel agents, and its exceptional clientele – into the Travel Leaders Group family. What attracted us to Colletts is its strong brand reputation within the UK’s luxury leisure market. Colletts only strengthens our already formidable expertise in counselling luxury clientele both here and throughout the world,” said Chacko.
“Together with our Protravel and Tzell UK operations, the addition of Colletts Travel further fortifies our platform here in the United Kingdom as we expand our leadership position in serving the extraordinary and sophisticated needs of ultra-high net worth leisure travellers,” added Grimmett.
