bolton england founder david speakman headquarters manchester united kingdom number of locations 1 420 franchises area served worldwide key people david speakman founder kirstin hughes md website www.travelcounsellors.co.uk travel counsellors ltd. is an independent travel company headquartered in manchester england . it was founded in 1994 by travel entrepreneur david speakman and operates in 7 countries around the world . the company specialises in personally tailored holidays and business travel and has over 1 400 travel agents globally running their own home based franchise 1 in the united kingdom ireland the netherlands belgium south africa australia and the uae . 2 the company s turnover in 2013 year was 390 million . 3 in 2015 the company announced it was moving headquarters from bolton to manchester . 4 awards edit travel counsellors was the winner of the queen s award for enterprise innovation technology 2003 and 2014 . 5 the company was listed in the 2013 & 2014 sunday times international fast track 6 the company s business travel division 5 was listed as one of the uk s top 20 travel management companies . 7 references edit davies phil 2014 01 16 . travel counsellors named netherland s best travel company . travel weekly . retrieved 2014 01 24 . we are global . travelcounsellors.co.uk . retrieved 2014 01 24 . travel counsellors continues on upward curve . e tid.com . 2013 11 28 . retrieved 2014 01 24 . http www.theboltonnews.co.uk news 13637618 . leisure company travel counsellors set to move out of bolton for new home in manchester a b corporate travel and business travel management from travel counsellors . tctravelmanagement.co.uk . retrieved 2014 01 24 . company profile . fasttrack.co.uk . retrieved 2014 01 24 . the calm before the storm 50 leading tmcs . buying business travel . 2009 06 01 . retrieved 2014 01 24 . external links edit official website this article about a service company in the united kingdom is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title travel counsellors & oldid 742847865 categories travel and holiday companies of the united kingdomcompanies based in boltoncompanies established in 1994united kingdom service company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 6 october 2016 at 05 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view