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The Link Magazine • June 2003 11
Advertising feature
Personal holiday advice from your own travel counsellor

and an award winning company

The pioneering spirit of businesswoman Sharon Benson from Grange Park has been regally recognised by a prestigious Queen's Award for
Enterprise.
With 25 years in the travel industry, eight older people and also the business traveller.
years of which as manager of a well known travel "Arranging a holiday or a business trip can be
agency in West Swindon, Sharon is applying her very time consuming and also frustrating," said
enterprise and expertise by joining Sharon. "The Travel Counsellors' concept
groundbreaking travel firm Travel Counsellors provides you with all the services of a high street
which received the Queen's Award forInnovati on travel agent, which includes all the industry
in Her Majesty's birthday honours list. protection assurance from ABTA and IATA,
Travel Counsellors is a national travel agency without hunting through all the confusing
serving customers across the UK and Ireland via brochures. The 'holidays from home' idea has
its network of personal travel counsellors and proved very popular across the country; people
telesales travel counsellors. In 2002 it served love the fact that they receive personal advice in
fee . _._..
over 100,000 customers and for the last four the comfort of their homes at a time convenient
years has been named in the Virgin Atlantic/ to them. They also appreciate the fact that they
Sunday Times Fastrack 1001 istings as one of the get independent advice and benefit of expertise
UK's fastest growing private companies. which is often not available on the high street.
Sharon's aim is to boost the number of Travel Working from her office in West Swindon, "You tell me where you want to go and when,
Counsellors' customers in the Swindon area using Sharon makes travel arrangements on your behalf, and the budget you're working to, and I'll take on
the personal service that the company is becoming from car parking to cruises, two weeks in the sun the hard work of finding you the right holiday
famous for. She said, "I am thrilled to have joined to short city breaks, from skiing to camping through the Travel Counsellors' database."
a company that has been recognised by the holidays, in the UK and worldwide. This year is a great time to get an even better
Queen's Award. As Travel Counsellors we are As a seasoned traveller and mother of four value holiday, while no longer feeling you need
responsible for running our own local children in local schools, Sharon has a vast an immediate break just from making all the
consultancies and I believe this award recognises knowledge of holiday destinations and knows arrangements.
our individual achievements as entrepreneurs the joys and pitfalls of taking afamily on holiday. Contact Sharon by calling 881747 or mail:
and travel experts, and assures our clients of the With her experience in the industry, she is also [email protected] or via
quality of the service they will receive." well placed to arrange trips for singles, couples, www.travelcounsellors.com/sharon.benson

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