Who are we?

On behalf of all the members, I warmly welcome you to BEST.
BEST is a trade body made up of the UK's leading escorted tour operators and our aim is to help you improve:

• Your knowledge
• Your sales
• Your commission
• Your profit

All by selling escorted tours!

BEST is the trade's first ever organisation dedicated to promoting the touring market and we aim to promote escorted touring as the holiday of choice for your clients, whilst providing expert tour training and support for our travel agent partners throughout the UK and Ireland.

We are supported by six of the world's leading escorted operators: Collette Worldwide, Page & Moy Travel Group, Shearings, Titan, Trafalgar, Insight & Contiki (1STS) and Wendy Wu Tours. In turn, together we support over 1000 individual consultants to make sure that touring clients get the holiday of their dreams.

Over the next year we are fully committed to raising the profile of this growing sector whilst continuing to change the perceptions, dispel the myths and helping the trade recognise the advantages of booking escorted tours for both you and your clients.

From Paul Melinis
Director of Sales, Trafalgar, Insight and Contiki (1STS)
Chairman of BEST

Our Members

The members of BEST represent some of the best known and well established brands in escorted tours. By joining together, they are demonstrating their commitment to help agents sell more tours.

The BEST Academy will provide agents with the essential knowledge and understanding of escorted tours to sell this product with complete confidence.

There is plenty of promotional support from operators too. Joint advertising in local media is on offer as is a new range of point of sale material. Operators are also committed to regular brochure supplies.

BEST members have really knowledgeable and friendly staff who will be delighted to answer queries from agents by phone or email. They are here to help support agents in any way they can.

Each BEST member have their own dedicated sales team on the road who are available for training and or store visits. The sales managers are there to help you sell this exciting sector to your clients and in return improve your business.

www.colletteglobetrotters.com
www.pageandmoy.co.uk
www.shearings.com
www.onestoptouringshop.co.uk
www.titanagents.co.uk
www.wendywutours.co.uk