MTA Mobile Travel Agents

MTA – Mobile Travel Agents is celebrating a quarter century milestone in 2025 of support and commitment to independent travel advisors.

MTA – Mobile Travel Agents recently celebrated the achievements of over 90 Platinum and Platinum Elite Advisors with an exclusive weekend in Hobart.

Underlining its strength in the luxury travel sector, MTA – Mobile Travel Agents had 25 luxury travel advisors attend ILTM Asia Pacific, held at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore from 5-8 Sep. It was the first time the event had been held since 2019.

South-East Queensland and Northern NSW based Virtuoso advisors were finally able to enjoy the Gold Coast leg of Virtuoso Travel Week Australia. It took place last week after being postponed multiple times due to COVID-19.

The close knit community environment of home-based agency networks in Australia is keeping travel advisors level headed as the industry begins to see signs of what the new normal post-COVID 19 starts to take shape.

MTA – Mobile Travel Agents has revealed that the founder of the School of St Jude in Tanzania, Gemma Sisia, will speak at the company’s 20th anniversary conference next month.

The CEO of global luxury travel network, Virtuoso, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker at MTA – Mobile Travel Agents’ upcoming national conference. Matthew Upchurch is a long-standing associate of MTA co-managing directors Karen and Roy Merricks, who invited the Virtuoso boss for the group’s 20th anniversary conference taking place from 28 February to 1 March, 2020.

Add one more travel segment that Forbes Travel Guide (“FTG”) is now affording its star rating: river cruises.

Building on her recent appointment as official Australian sales agent for the high-profile Formula 1® hospitality and travel program, F1® Experiences, MTA – Mobile Travel Agents’ Wendy Brockbank has now expanded the portfolio with the inclusion of the Formula 1® Australian Grand Prix.

Just weeks after its official launch, MTA – Mobile Travel Agents’ benchmark ‘MTA Professional Plus’ in-house accreditation program is off to a flying start, with close to 80 MTA Advisors now well on their way to becoming fully accredited MTA Certified Travel Professionals.

MTA – Mobile Travel Agents this week unveiled to its home-based travel consultants a new in-house online accreditation program called ‘MTA Professional Plus’. Three years in the making, the program has been designed to create a new level of professionalism, dovetailing in with calls made in 2014 by the Australian Federation of Travel Agents to improve the standard of learning of face-to-face consulting.