Travel Counsellors Awards

2008 – The British Travel Industry Hall of Fame

inducted chairman David Speakman as a new member at its prestigious 14th British Travel Industry Hall of Fame in recognition of his achievements and significant role in developing the travel and tourism industry. David was the original pioneer of the travel agents working from home concept. He founded Travel Counsellors in 1994, which was the first - and is now the largest - home-based travel company in the world.

2007 Travel Counsellors named the UK's Best Travel Agent

for a second consecutive year at the 21st annual Guardian, The Observer and Guardian Unlimited travel awards as voted by readers. Voting was rated on quality of service with Travel Counsellors scoring a highly impressive 98.41% overall.

2007 - The Outstanding Achievement Award

was presented to chairman David Speakman at the Travel Weekly Globe Awards in London. Simon Ferguson, publishing director of the Travel Weekly Group commented, "David was a natural choice as a result of the phenomenal success of Travel Counsellors. He has created a new form of agency model, much imitated, that has proved both enduring and successful, and has transformed the experience of buying, selling and distributing travel."

2007 - The Accenture Innovation Award

was presented in recognition of the Travel Counsellors ground breaking franchise agreement. The agreement clarifies its consultants’ self employed status, enabling them to take on their own staff and build up value in their business that they can then sell on should they wish to do so. Awarded the Plain English Crystal Mark, and highly commended by the British Franchise Association, the franchise agreement puts further distance between Travel Counsellors and other travel homeworking models.

2006 - Travel Counsellors has been named the UK's Best Travel Agent

at the 20th annual Guardian, The Observer and Guardian Unlimited travel awards as voted by readers. Voting was rated on quality of service with Travel Counsellors scoring a highly impressive 99.29% overall– the highest total percentage of any company in the awards.

2006 - Lifetime Achievement Award

Travel Counsellors chairman David Speakman was one of the first ever recipients of a travel industry Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2006 Agent Achievement Awards. He was recognised for being the pioneer of the travel agents working from home concept; recognising that experienced travel consultants could earn more, give better service and have a better work life balance by working from their own home, linked by the latest technology and specialising in giving their customers the highest possible levels of personal service.

2005 - Growing Business Awards/technology in business category

TravelCounsellors was delighted to receive the ‘Technology in Business Award’ at the high profile 2005 Growing Business Awards produced by Real Business and the CBI in December 2005. Travel Counsellors beat tough competition from Hotelscene, Tribeka and VC-Net to win the award, which was collected by the company’s IT Director Paul Speakman from William Hague at a gala dinner at the London Hilton on Park Lane.

2000 - Sunday Times/Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100

The UK's definitive list tracking the country's most dynamic and fastest growing companies.

2001 - Sunday Times/Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100

The UK's definitive list tracking the country's most dynamic and fastest growing companies.

1999 - Sunday Times/Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100

The UK's definitive list tracking the country's most dynamic and fastest growing companies.

1998 - Sunday Times/Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100

The UK's definitive list tracking the country's most dynamic and fastest growing companies.