agency founded 1984 united kingdom headquarters southall middlesex ub1 1su united kingdom key people kuljinder bahia kabir bahiaceo 1 revenue 500 million 2012 2 website http www.southalltravel.co.uk southall travel is a privately owned u.k. based travel agency located in the municipal borough of southall . the company is part of southall travel group and operates both physical locations and online booking . the company has made both the list of sunday times fast track 100 3 and sunday times top track 250 . 4 contents 1 history 2 awards and recognition 3 references 4 external links history edit southall travel was founded in 1984 in the united kingdom . in its infancy it was a small travel agency that served the asian uk market with bookings mainly in india and asia . the company grew from revenues of 500 000 in 1991 to revenues of 240 million in 2011 . 1 kuljinder bahia was appointed as the company s managing director in 1997 at the age of 24 . he is attributed with growing sales of the company 63 % a year during the time period of 2001 to 2004 . 3 in 2008 he was honored with the young entrepreneur of the year award for his work with the company . 5 in 2007 southall travel launched the holiday team a business to business division that provides wholesale travel . 1 6 southall travel also operates applehouse travel a travel management company that handles southall travel s corporate travel business and is a member of the guild of travel management companies . 7 the holiday team joined the truly independent professional travel organisation tipto in 2013 becoming the 13th member in the organisation . 8 southall travel launched travel trolley in 2013 . the site is the official online travel agency of southall travel and offers flights and holiday packages booking . 9 awards and recognition edit southall travel has been recognized for numerous achievements as a company . they were the only travel agency in 2010 to be on the sunday times top track 250 list of most successful companies in the united kingdom . 4 they continued on the top track 250 in 2011 and 2012 to add to the list of their awards and recognition . 2012 sunday times top track 250 10 2011 sunday times top track 250 6 2010 sunday times top track 250 4 2005 sunday times fast track 100 company 3 2007 2012 jet airways best overall agent award 11 references edit a b c how southall travel broke into the big league . travel weekly . 3 june 2011 . retrieved 23 september 2013 . berman chloe 17 april 2013 . travel s finest win top industry accolade . travel weekly . retrieved 25 september 2013 . a b c 2005 fast track 100 rank 81 southall travel . the sunday times . 2005 . retrieved 25 september 2013 . a b c southall travel makes sunday times top 250 . the sunday times . 18 october 2010 . retrieved 25 september 2013 . uk asian achievers awards announce . hindustan times . 4 december 2008 . retrieved 25 september 2013 . a b gill rob 17 october 2011 . southall travel s 40 million sales boost . ttg digital . retrieved 25 september 2013 . davies phil 17 may 2013 . applehouse travel becomes fourth new gtmc member this year . travel weekly . retrieved 25 september 2013 . holiday teams signs up to tipto . ttg digital . 8 january 2013 . retrieved 25 september 2013 . travel trolley to offer all inclusive holiday packages online . travel digest . 17 september 2013 . retrieved 25 september 2013 . gatwick airport heads travel inclusion in sunday times top track 250 . travel weekly . 15 october 2012 . retrieved 25 september 2013 . southall travel is jet airways best overall agent once again press release . southall travel . 7 november 2012 . retrieved 25 september 2013 . external links edit southall travel website applehouse travel southall s corporate travel division travel trolley southall travel owned website cheap ticket southall travel owned website away holidays southall travel owned website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title southall travel & oldid 720806363 categories companies established in 1984travel agencies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 18 may 2016 at 01 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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