{"id":16506,"date":"2022-10-27T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/?p=16506"},"modified":"2022-10-27T06:44:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T05:44:34","slug":"the-travel-franchise-wins-businessperson-of-the-year-at-the-central-south-business-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/the-travel-franchise-wins-businessperson-of-the-year-at-the-central-south-business-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"The Travel Franchise wins businessperson of the year at the central south business awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><strong>What Happened<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BUSINESS SOUTH has just launched its inaugural CENTRAL SOUTH BUSINESS AWARDS. At a ceremony in Southampton on September 28<sup>th<\/sup>. THE TRAVEL FRANCHISE carried off the award for BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Business South is an \u201cindependent representative of businesses in Central South England.\u201d In association with\u00a0Platinum Media Group, the Awards celebrate the region\u2019s best new and established business and the great people they employ. The gongs include Company of the Year, International Business of the Year, Sustainable Business of the Year and the one we\u2019re proud to bring home &#8211; Businessperson of the Year 2022.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Got Here<\/strong><br \/>\nTHE TRAVEL FRANCHISE is a leading UK travel agency franchise with 20 years\u2019 experience, 950 franchisees, unrivalled personal development and an industry-leading commission structure for its franchisees. We\u2019re a global team and a broad family of agents bringing travel dreams to life across the world. We\u2019re thrilled that our hard work is recognised by such an important body as Business South and we continue to push forward and develop our business at every level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This comes after multiple awards and nominations <\/strong>for THE TRAVEL FRANCHISE in recent months. We\u2019re also Homeworking Agency of the Year\u00a0(now 6 times), Cruise Awards Best Homeworking Agency 2022 (winners), Independent Agency of the Year \u2013 Aspire Awards 2022 (Finalists) and Sustainability Champions &#8211; Aspire Awards 2022 (Finalists).<\/p>\n<p>We believe nominations and prizes like this belong to the whole Travel Franchise family. We make it our mission to provide the best grounding and one-to-one support, the freedom to build a business from anywhere in the world, and low-fee, no-experience starting points matched by unlimited opportunities for growth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an exciting time for us and we look forward to welcoming more new travel agents every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From co-founder Steve Witt\u2019s acceptance speech:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy business ethic has always been that by helping others be successful, I can be successful too. It led me to business success before The Travel Franchise and continues to be the mantra that Paul and I follow. Everything we do, we do to improve the working lives of our franchisees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Happened BUSINESS SOUTH has just launched its inaugural CENTRAL SOUTH BUSINESS AWARDS. At a ceremony in Southampton on September 28th. THE TRAVEL FRANCHISE carried off the award for BUSINESSPERSON OF THE YEAR 2022. Business South is an \u201cindependent representative of businesses in Central South England.\u201d In association with\u00a0Platinum Media Group, the Awards celebrate the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-travel-franchise","category-leisure-franchises"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/0-Winner-Logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franchiselocal.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}