The United Kingdom’s leading professional body in business travel – the Guild of Travel Management - enjoyed a lavish stay at Oman’s prestigious Al Bustan Palace from March 11th – 14th.
The Guild consists of the most important travel agencies in the UK handling corporate hotel, airline and car-hire reservations and represents approximately 80% of all business travel from the UK.
Some of the globe’s major, multi-national companies sent senior delegates to attend the four day event including American Express, Carlson Wagon-Lit, TQ3, Hogg Robinson BTI, Travel by Appointment, the Travel Company, Munro’s Travel Agency, ATPI, Reed and Mackay Travel to name a few.
The Guild meets every year to tackle common issues of the travel agency industry and to discuss various topics with major suppliers from the travel industry.
“For me, this conference exceeded all the previous, both in content and venue!” exuded Mike Whalley, Managing Director of The Travel Company.
Opened in 1985, the Al Bustan Palace InterContinental Muscat has established itself as the leading hotel in the Middle East and one of the finest hotels in the world. Identified as the Jewel of the Sultanate of Oman and the Middle East, the hotel boasts sixteen magnificent banqueting and reception rooms, including the Majan Ballroom which can host banquets for up to 800 guests and the Gulf of Oman Room overlooking the ocean.
Jack Burnett, Senior Partner, Munro’s Travel Agency exclaimed “The Al Bustan Palace InterContinental Hotel was absolutely wonderful” and Paul Cook, Director of Operations, Reed and Mackay Travel echoed his words by saying “To say we were “happy” with the arrangements is an understatement..…stunned would be a better description.”
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