The Corporate Travel leader in New Zealand
Travel Professionals is a privately owned, independent corporate travel agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. Formed in 2008, we have grown from a small agency to one of the leaders in corporate travel with offices in Australia and New Zealand.
Travel Professionals is a member of The Travel Managers Group, the largest consortium of independent broker agencies in New Zealand which enables us to negotiate and provide the most competitive rates within the industry. As a result, our clients enjoy numerous benefits ranging from value added cost savings and enhanced global support to improved security and easy access to specialist services and products.
A word from our CEO
In the ever-moving environment that is corporate travel, a need for expertise is required. Managing Director Leanne Sharp has been in the travel industry for 40+ years and is committed to continually delivering an exceptional service to her travel clients – coupled with her wealth of knowledge, she encompasses the name ‘Travel Professional’ in every sense. With a caring and passionate attitude, Leanne strives to provide all clients with a personal service, gathering a thorough understanding of needs and wishes to ensure the travel booking experience is as simple and stress-free as possible.
Behind every trip arranged through Leanne and her team at Travel Professionals, you can be rest-assured that there is a travel expert ready to facilitate even the most complex of itineraries with knowledge and attention to detail.
Thanks to our exclusive Platinum partnership with Expedia, we have access to the very best rates at over 350,000 hotels worldwide.
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As a member of The Travel Managers Group we have access to the most competitive international and provincial fares in the industry.
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We offer a full advisory service to all countries worldwide with our consultants having exclusive access to IATA accredited partner TIMATIC.
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Travel Professionals works in association with one of the most recognize event specialist company in New Zealand.
Read moreThanks to our exclusive Platinum partnership with Expedia, we have access to the very best rates at over 350,000 hotels worldwide. Our consultants have access to last room availability and promotional rates which may be available in any of these hotels in more than 75 countries across the globe.
Travel Professionals offer car hire in many locations worldwide with competitive rates with all major car hire suppliers such as Avis or Hertz and many others. We can also arrange Meet & Greet services, airport transfers as well as domestic and international rail bookings.
As a member of The Travel Managers Group we have access to the most competitive international and provincial fares in the industry. Our technology performs rapid simultaneous searches for live availability and fares worldwide across more than 225 airlines, delivering results in just a few seconds.
In addition, our consultants have access to regional airlines within the Pacific Area with the lowest rates guaranteed thanks to special agreements we have adopted.
Many of our fares are not available on public websites and the rates we have on both economy & premium fares – such as flexible fares and business class fares, offer great savings to our customers.
We offer a full advisory service to all countries worldwide with our consultants having exclusive access to IATA accredited partner TIMATIC, to ensure that information is provided is accurate and up to date at all times.
Highly competitive Travel Insurance policies are also available for those travelers originating in New Zealand.
Travel Professionals works in association with one of the most recognized event specialist companies in New Zealand.
With more than 10 years’ experience of managing travel for international conferences, conventions and workshop our dedicated Team is your one stop shop and has all the skills and expertise to ensure you get the best possible outcome for your event.
At Travel Professionals, we are using the Sabre reservation system’s technology which provides our consultants rapid simultaneous searches for live availability and fares worldwide across more than 225 airlines in 75 countries delivering results in just a few seconds. Our fares are ultra competitive and the expertise we have offer great benefits to our customers.
We also understand the importance of getting access to your information at all times. Travel Professionals offer free access to TripCase, so our clients can access all their trip details and travel plans instead one streamlined itinerary. TripCase lets you manage flight itineraries, hotel bookings, and rental car reservations in one app. Get airport terminal and gate information in one glance on your phone, and receive notifications on your phone, tablet or smartwatch if there is a change to your flight. Great for business travellers and frequent flyers.
Noumea / NEW CALEDONIA
I have been working with Travel Professionals for almost 2 years in my new position. Travel Professionals consultants have a true knowledge of the Pacific area and their staff are very skilled travel agents.
As the Conference/Events/Travel Coordinator of an International organisation that employs more than 600 staff which brings assistance to all the Pacific Islands Countries (Health, Fisheries, Tropical Agronomy etc.…) I have to approve all travel undertaken by 400 hundred Professionals.
Those Professionals are constantly travelling to either attend conferences or (and mostly) organise conferences, workshops and meetings that will displace hundreds of people annually. Travel Professionals is our preferred travel provider because their consultants understand our needs, not only sourcing the most economic and shortest routes, but also being able to make constant changes to suit the needs of the countries.
Our Senior Leadership Team (SLT) swears by their services, in fact they even bypass me to deal directly with Travel Professionals as they are kind, reactive, often proactive people. Our Organization is known for being difficult to serve as we send our people to the remotest places in the Pacific Islands Countries. Travel Professionals staff have always been extremely patient with us, never said a word against any task we subject them to, they can start and start again, constantly, without a complaint. In one word: no business is too small or too difficult for them.
As our SLT remarked to me once: it’s not enough to have the best airfare, what Travel Professionals provide us is service and peace of mind.
Auckland / NEW ZEALAND
I would like to thank Travel Professionals for their outstanding travel consultancy services.
As an international corporation we live on travel. Our New Zealand office uses Travel Professionals as our one stop shop for everything travel. Our employees regularly request difficult itineraries at short notice and their team have consistently and repeatedly proven their worth. Flights, hotels, rental vehicles, travel consultancy. We have had the pleasure of working with Travel Professionals for over 10 years, during which period their consultants have prepared hundreds of itineraries with thousands of flights.
We are communications experts; Travel Professionals are travel experts. It is best to leave specialty services to the subject matter experts. If it were not for Travel Professionals Team, we would be spending much more time on travel overhead instead of focusing on generating revenue for our company. I highly recommend Travel Professionals, not only for their high level of professionalism, but also the decades of experience. Sometimes a smile is not enough, it needs solid backing, and when it comes to travel – Travel Professionals deliver.
Auckland /NEW ZEALAND
I have retained Travel Professionals since I founded my company in 2010 as my travel agent.
Travel Professionals have been exceptional to work with over the last 8 years and I would highly recommend them to anyone looking for a travel agent that goes the extra mile for every single one of their clients. No trip is too big or too small.
Travel Professionals team do more than just ticket flights. They think about the bigger picture, take the time to understand the pressure one is under during compact and intensive business trips and come up with the best solution for the client.
Their consultants are very practical and take the time to research your itinerary thoroughly. Many travel agents today don’t invest this time and many travel agents today do nothing more than clip the ticket. They poorly research options and aim to book your travel in the fastest time possible, rather than in a way that meets your business needs.
The Travel Professional Team add real value. They understand that being a travel agent is so much more than clipping a ticket. They provide a total service, thoroughly researched itineraries and support, as well as being responsive, attentive and proactive.
I am often surprised at the speed at which they get back to me, but there is nothing more important than that when you are halfway around the world.
The level of service I have received is second to none – through both opportunities and challenges, at all hours of the day across all times zones.
Honiara / SOLOMON ISLANDS
I have worked in the Solomon Islands for some ten years during which time I have had three different employers. In each position that I have held I had responsibility in part for organising travel for a large number of personnel.
During the entire period, each entity dealt with Travel Professionals for all corporate travel on behalf of employees / consultants in addition to the various recreational travel requirements on behalf of the staff. Additionally, we would require Travel Professionals to organise group travel bookings for the purposes of attending conferences etc. and it is with great pleasure that I advise despite various complications that we would put in front of Travel Professionals staff, each and every trip was completed smoothly.
A feature of our dealings with Travel Professionals is their ready accessibility and their ability to respond to various scenarios that arose regardless of the hour of the day or night. Their responsiveness to requests well outside of business hours and during weekends and Public Holidays were outstanding.
Travel Professionals consultant showed great tenacity in ensuring that on each occasion he issued tickets that the cheapest possible fare arrangements were applied. Their personal efforts ensured that value for money was always achieved for each passenger and this contributed greatly to reduced travel expenditure.
It is with pleasure and a great deal of confidence that I would recommend Travel Professionals to any organisation that requires an honest, enthusiastic and reliable travel agent. The Travel Professionals team have consistently demonstrated these qualities over quite an extended period.
Suva / FIJI
Travel Professionals have been providing travel services for our organisation for almost three years now.
I would like to recommend Travel Professionals as the main travel agency that manages our travel needs within the Pacific Region and Globally.
With a dedicated agent to cater to the multiple requests and deadlines, Travel Professionals are honest, dependable and have always delivered support after-work hours when flight changes or disruptions are made.
I confidently recommend Travel Professionals as a dedicated and knowledgeable supplier and an all-around travel agency.
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