Barrhead Travel

Independent travel agent Barrhead Travel has celebrated its best-ever month in its 50-year history, reporting record holiday bookings in January 2025. The surge in demand continued into February, with the company noting a 58% increase in bookings on the first Saturday of the month.

Glasgow-based Barrhead Travel has enjoyed record-breaking sales for the second year running, with 2024 trading up 13% on its previous best year in 2023. The travel agency group, which will celebrate its 50th year in business during 2025, reports consistent monthly sales exceeding those of the previo

Barrhead Travel has invested £250,000 in the future of Scotland's high streets through a series of store refits, expansions and new uniforms for customer-facing teams. The first half of this year has seen the revamp of four stores including the Gyle, Braehead, Newton Mearns and Glasgow Fo

Barrhead Travel has announced that it will be making staff redundant after the coronavirus pandemic and the travel restrictions which followed it had caused "a drop in customer confidence". The firm also blamed the uncertainty surrounding quarantine after travel and the contributions it will have to

Scottish Chambers of Commerce is launching a campaign among its 11,000 members to boost their e-commerce expertise to avoid being left behind as the UK develops e-commerce 'hotspots' in London and the Midlands. Scottish Chambers quoted figures from the Office for National Statistics indicating that