The acquisition is a feather in the cap for the entire travel industry, Frosch executives say, as well as an indicator of the strength of the travel agency community specifically.
Executive teams at Frosch as well as existing consortia relationships are expected to remain in place, according to a report by the Beat, a Travel Weekly sister publication.
Frosch continues to make pandemic-era acquisitions, this time taking a majority stake in the corporate travel division of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Conlin Travel.
Is it time for the return of business travel?
In the second half of a recording with web editor Jerry Limone, Conlin Travel CEO Chris Conlin and Valerie Wilson Travel co-president Jennifer Wilson Buttigieg focused on the comeback of one of the biggest segments of travel: Business travelers.
Business travel is big business. Valerie Wilson and Conlin, both Power List agencies (meaning they have at least $100 million in travel sales in a non-Covid year) are strong in corporate travel; for example.
You ll hear in this episode that both Conlin and Wilson-Buttigieg are confident that business travel and face-to-face meetings are getting ready for their big moment, especially as vaccines are rolled out, workers head back to their offices, the typical fall season for business travel kicks into gear and, importantly, conferences start to be held in person again.