Steve Byrne

CEO of Travel Counsellors, the UK’s largest and fast-growing technology platform for travel entrepreneurs, with a TTV at the end of its last financial year (October 31 2022) of £719.4m, 312% higher than the prior year. The company has over 1,900 travel entrepreneurs across six countries (UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium, South Africa and the UAE), delivering bespoke luxury leisure and corporate travel services, supported by over 300 colleagues in the UK headquarters and overseas offices. We provide a high touch, digitally enabled platform, that enables and empowers travel entrepreneurs to harness innovative and constantly evolving tools and technology to build their businesses in a way that suits them, with limitless potential and scale. This is underpinned by the knowledge and power of a global community and strong people-first culture. Travel Counsellors has been named a business to inspire Britain by the London Stock Exchange, twice named Amazon Growing Business of the Year, National Business Award for Customer Focus and is a two-time winner of a British Travel Award. Travel Counsellors has also been listed in the Sunday Times Top Track 250 and International Track 200. More recently, the company has been named as Best Agency to Work For (Large) and Homeworking Agency of the Year (Large) at the 2023 Travel Weekly Agent Achievement Awards, as well as being recognised as one of the Best Places To Work in the UK for 2023 by The Sunday Times.