| Cruise key for HLO

THE rebounding cruise market is driving Helloworld Travel’s leisure TTV across the board, according to an update from CEO Andrew Burnes at the company’s AGM yesterday.

“The lifting of the ban on international cruise ships effective 17 Apr 2022 was welcome news,” he said.

“It has been a long time coming, and agents and their clients across Australia were both relieved and thrilled when this ban was finally lifted”.

Burnes noted that pre-pandemic cruise sales made up, on average, “a third or more of most Helloworld agents’ leisure sales, and also contributed significantly to their air and land sales”.

HLO technology initiatives include a rollout of a uniform version of the Odysseus platform in the cruise division.