TORONTO — The Travel Agent Next Door is putting a bow on 2024 – and what a year it’s been. The host agency celebrated its 10th anniversary in style with a successful conference in Jordan in June, numerous roadshow events in the fall, and last night’s VIP Supplier event. TTAND’s top supplier partners come out in droves for the annual get-together, once again held at the Fairmont Royal York.
It’s a fun night with plenty of laughs and camaraderie, plus of course an update from TTAND’s founder and CEO, Flemming Friisdahl, and the rest of the TTAND team. Travelweek connected with Friisdahl for an interview. Half a billion dollars in annual sales? New technologies? All this and more are in our Q&A .
.. Travelweek: TTAND marked its 10th anniversary in 2024 with plenty of celebrations and a conference in Jordan, all successful events and no doubt extremely time-consuming to execute too! Now that the confetti has settled, what is TTAND turning its attention to and prioritizing for 2025? Friisdahl: “We had one more party – our VIP event – a very festive evening capping the 10 months of celebrating our 10-year anniversary.
At our roadshows across Canada we had 16 cakes, and because it’s bad luck not to eat some of the cake, I had 16 pieces of cake in 10 days, that’s a lot of cake! “The main focus for the coming year 2025 is technology. We have built some amazing tools that we will be launching that will make The Travel Agent Next Door just that much different th.
