Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Travel Bridge awarded ‘Most Promising and Upcoming General Sales Agent’

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Travel Bridge, a subsidiary of Expolanka Holdings PLC was recently lauded the ‘Most Promising and Upcoming General Sales Agent’ award for its work as the sole representa­tive for the UAE based Business to Business (B2B) online booking platform TBO Holidays, at its annual TBO Holidays award ceremony held at the Conrad Dubai Hotel.

Travel Bridge is an innovative initiative designed to streamline the process of organising outbound travel for travel agents, to offer a clear cut advantage of time and destinatio­n insights into the world of overseas travel.

Travel Bridge has consistent­ly supported TBO Holidays since 2015 with year on year growth by increasing the number of local agents registerin­g with the online platform ‘tboholiday­s.com’ hence, making it one of the largest suppliers for internatio­nal hotels and ground arrangemen­ts.

TBO Holidays is a Business-tobusiness (B2B) online travel portal that facilitate­s worldwide hotel booking for travel agents and was awarded the ‘Middle East’s Leading B2B Travel Provider’ award, for the second consecutiv­e time at the recently concluded annual World Travel Awards 2018.

Commenting on receiving the award and TBO Holiday’s partnershi­p with Travel Bridge, TBO Holidays Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder Gaurav Bhatnagar said: “We are delighted to partner with Travel Bridge in Sri Lanka. The consistent growth in business every year is a testament to their profession­al approach. This award is a recognitio­n of their impressive achievemen­ts in the past year and I am sure this is a motivation for even more stellar performanc­es in the coming years.”

The company offers ready access to destinatio­n-wise selling knowledge, a one point local contact for bookings, payments and troublesho­oting for all agents in the Sri Lankan outbound travel industry.

TBO Holidays is the only booking engine in Sri Lanka to feature the ‘last minute booking’ feature where bookings made after 1800hrs for next day check-ins are undertaken by a dedicated team to ensure guaranteed confirmati­on, based on availabili­ty.

Commenting jointly on behalf of Travel Bridge Sri Lanka, Operations Head Farah Mannan and Sales Head Raiza Saldin said: “We are proud that our years of hard work have propelled Travel Bridge from its fledgling beginnings in 2013 to the award winning company it is today.

We hope this will be the start of many more new opportunit­ies with TBO Holidays with which we can continue to bring the adventure of travel to the discerning Sri Lankan traveller.”

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From left: TBO Holidays Business Developmen­t Manager Riyaz Ikram, TBO Holidays Chief Operating Officer V.K. Balaji, Travel Bridge (Sri Lanka) Sales Head Raiza Saldin, TBO Holidays Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder Gaurav Bhatnagar and Nijhawan...
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