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With just one day to go to this year’s 20th anniversary conference of Travel Centres — Ireland’s largest travel agency consortium — numbers have surged past the 200 delegate barrier making this year’s event one of the best attended in recent years. In addition to the wonderful support of joint headline sponsors Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean, the 2025 annual conference is also being supported by the following sponsors: Accident & General, Eurocamp, Expedia TAAP, Hertz, ISME, Melia Hotels, MSC Cruises, Princess Cruises, Stuba, Sun Transfers, Sunway and Tui whilst the following companies have generously donated some amazing prizes that will be raffled during the gala dinner: Air Canada, Ama Waterways, Brittany Ferries, Delta Airlines, Emirates, Etihad Airways, Turkish Airlines and Wideroe Norwegian Airlines. Speakers on the Friday afternoon and Saturday morning include Sean Fahey from Fahey Media speaking on practical applications of AI in a travel agency setting; Darren Manning from Vertical Systems on cost-effective technology solutions; Pippa Jacks, Content & Audience Director from TTG on how agents can use TTG’s audit process to self-evaluate their businesses and up their game; lawyers John Sheehy and Eimear Gray from DAC Beachcroft providing a litigators perspective on package holiday legislation, hugely successful northern Ireland travel agency boss Sandra Corkin on how she continues to make her business relevant in the age of influencers and AI bots and elite athlete and renowned speaker Gerry Duffy showing how people can be the best version of themselves through the use of powerful goal setting strategies. As with all Travel Centres events, there will be loads of surprises in store with fabulous bands, musical interludes, and superb, good food and wines with some bubbly thrown in for good measure! The venue for this year’s conference is once again, Lawlor’s hotel in Naas.
