Josh Stevens, senior vice president of strategy and growth for Global Travel Collection, talks with James Shillinglaw of Insider Travel Report at last month’s GTC ARRIVE conference in Austin, Texas. Stevens says GTC is seeing incredible growth in average daily rate across all GTC hotel bookings, with sales up nearly 10 percent in the luxury corporate, luxury leisure and entertainment segments. Demand of for luxury travel keeps going up in all segments, although Steven notes cruise sales are up nearly 20 percent for luxury ocean, river and yacht categories. For more information, visit www.globaltravelcollection.com.<br><br>All our Insider Travel Report video interviews are archived and available on our Youtube channel (youtube.com/insidertravelreport), and as podcasts with the same title on: Spotify, Pandora, Stitcher, PlayerFM, Listen Notes, Podchaser, TuneIn + Alexa, Podbean, iHeartRadio, Google, Amazon Music/Audible, Deezer, Podcast Addict, and iTunes Apple Podcasts, which supports Overcast, Pocket Cast, Castro and Castbox.

How the GTC Host Agency Is Seeing Incredible Growth

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Hi, I'm James Schillinglaw for Insider Travel Report. I'm here at ARRIVE, which is the global travel collection. It's only the second conference they've had, and it's the first as a completely unified travel agency group, all owned by Internova. So I'm here with actually someone we've interviewed before, interviewed up in Gleneagles a few months back. It's Josh Stevens, who's the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Growth.

And Josh just gave us some really good numbers about what GTC is doing today, and we're going to talk to him about that and a whole lot more on Insider Travel Report. Josh, first of all, great to see you. A little bit of a different setting this time. We're in Austin this time, right?

We're in Austin. We're in Texas. My first time here. But yeah, really, really great setting for our event. Last night was great. I really enjoyed it. We had some live music. Unfortunately, I don't eat meat, so the food was lost on me a bit. Barbecue's not going to be your thing. Barbecue's not my meal, unfortunately. But no, it's really great to be here in Austin. And yeah, it's so great to be here as one company. Well, let's talk about that. And you're now doing statistics as one company, Global Travel Collection.

Now, all the brands that were acquired, including Pro Travel, Zelle, Altour, I believe, and In The Know. Those are all part of this group now. But talk a little bit about what you're seeing in terms of their production, about what they're doing. I think you have incredible growth in ADR of the properties they're booking, right? We do. Yeah, we do.

How the GTC Host Agency Is Seeing Incredible Growth

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How the GTC Host Agency Is Seeing Incredible Growth

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The candid version is on a podcast, not the earnings call.

The candid version is on a podcast,
not the earnings call.