Hunter Travel Group to manage combined wholly owned, RACT and RACQ operations.
Hunter Travel Group has announced the formation of a new joint venture travel company, Members Travel Group (MTG), alongside the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ).
The new venture will bring the two largest AutoClub travel businesses, RACQ Travel and RACT Travel, together, creating a “major player within the industry” owned equally by RACQ and Hunter Travel Group (HTG). Hunter Travel Group has managed the travel business of the Royal Automobile Club of Tasmania for the last nine years.
Hunter Travel Group currently operates under the brands of Helloworld Travel, RACT Travel and Cruise Travel Centre, and under the new JV the nine existing RACT locations will join RACQ’s 12 travel outlets in the new entity, thereby creating Australia’s largest motoring association travel group with 21 locations serving nearly two million members.
HTG’s 19-strong Helloworld Travel and Cruise Travel Centre businesses remain under separate HTG ownership. While RACQ Travel, RACT Travel and HTG’s wholly owned locations will continue to operate as separate brands, the JV will operate under HTG management “with the businesses leveraging their combined size across the combined 40 locations, forming one of the largest travel businesses in the country”.
Hunter Travel Group CEO and Managing Director, Brett Dann, said the new JV would add valuable expertise and business opportunities to RACQ Travel. “This is an exciting new phase of the travel business and we look forward to the many benefits it will bring to our Members and customers and the wider organisation”.
More details in today’s issue of Travel Daily.