InteleTravel Eyes Blended Travel Sales With Hickory Acquisition
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Blended travel has caught the eye of these two established companies. The resulting formation could well serve this new market.
InteleTravel acquired corporate travel consortium Hickory Global Partners, a firm nod to the rise of blended travel as employees increasingly blur the lines between vacations with business trips.
InteleTravel, which has a network of 90,000 independent home-based advisors across the U.S., UK, Caribbean, Mexico and Republic of Ireland, wants to create the “consortium of the future,” according its president James Ferrara.
InteleTravel claims it is the largest retailer for many leading cruise and tour operator/wholesaler vacation brands in the U.S., and was ranked 24 in Travel Weekly’s Power List last year, w
