Travel Weekly Group Ltd is a UK publishing and events company serving the travel industry, principally travel agents, tour operators and other suppliers. Its main brand is weekly business publication ''Travel Weekly'' and its associated online services, supplements, forums and award events. Other brands include Travolution, a news provider for the digital travel industry; Aspire, a media brand for the luxury travel market; and the Globe Travel Awards. Travel Weekly Group was established by entrepreneur Clive Jacobs, founder of car rental company

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, in August 2009 when he acquired ''Travel Weekly'' and its associated brands from

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. In March 2014, it acquired Kingley Event Management, whose portfolio included several UK travel industry events. Travel Weekly Group employs about 80 staff and is based in Victoria, London, UK. It is part of Jacobs Media Group, whose other brands include ''

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'', which serves the hospitality industry; Connections, a networking community for the high-end travel sector; Atas, the Association of Touring & Adventure Suppliers; the Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council; Global Travel Week, an annual travel trade event; and Connecting Travel, a Dubai-based multimedia platform serving the tourism industry in the Middle East. Jacobs Media Group promotes itself as "the global voice for the travel and hospitality industries".

Travel Weekly

''Travel Weekly'' is a travel trade magazine printed in the

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. It provides news, analysis and destination articles for

travel agents A travel agency is a private retailer or public service that provides travel and tourism-related services to the general public on behalf of accommodation or travel suppliers to offer different kinds of travelling packages for each destinati ...

, tour operators and tourism employees about the UK outbound and domestic holiday and travel markets. The weekly A4-sized magazine has an audited circulation of 14,703 and is published on Thursday. Lucy Huxley is editor-in-chief.

''Travel Weekly'' brands

''Travel Weekly'' is produced by Travel Weekly Group, part of Jacobs Media Group, Europe's largest B2B multimedia company for the travel and hospitality industries. Other brands in the group include ''The Caterer'', ''Aspire'', ''Travolution'', Connections, Connecting Travel, Global Travel Week, and the Global Travel and Tourism Resilience Council. In April 2020, Jacobs Media Group was awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise.

Events

*Globe Travel Awards, held annually in January at the

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, London *Travolution Awards and Summit *Agent Achievement Awards

History

''Travel Weekly'' was first published in 1969 as ''Travel News''. Jacobs Media Group founder and chairman

Clive Jacobs Clive Jacobs is a British businessman and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Holiday Autos Group and Travel Weekly Group. Career Holiday Autos Group In 1988 he co-founded Holiday Autos Group, the first car rental broker in Europe, and one of ...

acquired it from

in 2009. ''Travel Weekly'' has a team of about 50 and is based in Victoria, London, UK.

References

External links

Travel WeeklyTravolutionBonito msAspire Travel ClubWe Are ConnectionsATAS - Touring & AdventureThe Caterer
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