The Leaders in Travel Summit took place at One Moorgate Place on Tuesday 6th October 2026, welcoming over 175 delegates for an afternoon of insightful sessions, inspiring speakers and valuable networking.
Highlights from the day can be found below, along with the photo gallery to look back on the event. This year’s Summit also features a Digital Gift Box, bringing together a selection of industry articles and insights for you to explore below.
Keep an eye out for details of next year’s Summit. We hope to see you there!
Digital Giftbox
Gallery
2026 Sponsors
Airwallex is a leading global financial platform for modern travel businesses, offering a borderless banking infrastructure to manage payments, treasury, and spend management. With 80+ licenses across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, Airwallex enables travel platforms to accept customer payments in local currencies and pay global suppliers at leading FX rates with greater speed than traditional banks. Whether managing corporate cards or embedding finance into your own platform, Airwallex removes the friction of global operations. Airwallex supports over 200,000 businesses and is trusted by travel leaders such as Secret Escapes, WeSki, Plum Guide, Qantas, and WeTravel.
C&M Travel Recruitment is the UK's most established specialist travel recruitment company, and offers permanent, temporary and contract roles in a wide range of sectors including business travel, retail, cruise, tour operators, OTAs and leisure.
Since forming in 1998, C&M has filled more than 15,000 travel roles and has become the industry's leading recruitment consultancy.
Building lasting relationships that add value is key to the company’s success. That belief has led C&M to cultivate an award-winning history and win exclusive and preferred supplier recruitment contracts with many of the UK’s biggest and most respected travel organisations.
C&M has a simple goal - to provide the industry with the most effective, dynamic, competent and confidential recruitment service available to travel companies, executives and candidates.
In total, C&M's team of Consultants have amassed 350 years of experience in the travel industry and more than 200 years in recruitment.
Supporters of the travel industry through partnerships with AITO, ITT, ABTA, FAA, UKinbound, ABTOT and AWTE, C&M Travel Recruitment is also a member of the REC (Recruitment & Employment Confederation).
Contact: Barbara Kolosinska
T: 020 7397 1291
E: barbara@candm.co.uk
W: www.candm.co.uk
Cork Bays & Fisher - Tour Operators Bonds and Liability Insurance (corkbaysfisher.co.uk)
Cork Bays & Fisher is one of the UK’s most experienced providers of bonds and liability insurance for tour operators and travel agents. Our expertise can help you find the perfect solution to fit your individual requirements and due to our broad underwriting provisions, we can offer broad insurance protection at competitive prices.
Furthermore, in the event of a claim you are in safe hands as we are well-known for our high levels of service and speed of resolution.
Over 40 years we have built a reputation for delivering professional indemnity, liability, property insurance to the travel sector. Our strength is our relationships – we work with travel regulators, specialist insurance companies and other travel industry specialists, to ensure our people are highly knowledgeable and trained to serviced you.
Heather Haggis will showcase the travel bond and general insurance products offered by the recently expanded team at Cork Bays & Fisher.
This is an opportunity for travel business owners, financial directors, and managers to discuss their company insurance challenges, including pricing, reduction in cover or in service levels. We also assist in the placement and pricing of your ABTA, ATOL, ABTOT and other types of travel bonds.
With our knowledge and expertise in travel sector insurance and bonding products, visit us on our stand to discuss the array of products you may not be aware of that can protect your revenue to enable you to expand your business in your existing market, or growth in a new one.
Heather Haggis
T: 020 7655 8090
E: enquiries@corkbaysfisher.co.uk
Radar is a marketing solutions company working exclusively in the travel sector. We provide a marketing automation solution bringing all your customer data together in a centralised location, allowing management of all customer communications throughout the holiday lifecycle. Our solution integrates with other travel technology and brings the marketing, sales and customer operations teams together to streamline the end-to-end customer journey.
How can we help you?
Do you want to see everything relating to your customers in one place and accessible for communications, reporting and more?
Do you want to understand more about who your customers are, providing insight to improve customer acquisition and enhance customer retention?
Do you want to be able to communicate with your customers in a consistent, on-brand way across all channels, including marketing and operational communications?
...then Radar have the marketing and business solutions you need. Come to our stand and let us show you Radar Marketing Suite, including CRM and our latest additions to the Suite:
- Our new sales enquiry and quote management solution
- Automated, on-brand customer documentation
We have been supporting tour operators for over 20 years and our client list includes:
- Advantage Travel Partnership
- Celestyal Cruises
- CV Villas
- HF Holidays
- Mark Warner
- Martin Randall Travel
- Ramblers Walking Holidays
- Skiworld
- Sunvil
- Travel Editions
- Wendy Wu Tours
Contact: Deb Merrifield
Email: deb@marketingradar.com
Tel: +44(0)7939 132545
Web: marketingradar.com
Founded in 2003, Travlaw is a long standing, trusted advisor on all things legal and regulatory to the travel & leisure industry. You name it, we can almost certainly assist. So ask us about:
- Commercial aspects of business – booking conditions, supplier contracts and so on
- Complaints & litigation – small claims, personal injury & commercial disputes
- All things employment & HR– from making sure you are set up right through to disputes
- Intellectual property
- Corporate work such as M&A, share schemes etc…
- And, of course, navigating the various regulatory side of business be it Package Travel regulations, CAA requirement, IATA and more.
Don’t just take our word for it – to see testimonials that help demonstrate the trust our clients have in us please as well as our thought leadership pieces generally, see www.travlaw.co.uk
Contact: Matt Gatenby
T: 01132 580033
E: Matt@Travlaw.co.uk
2026 Charity
Family Holiday Charity helps families get time away together, often for the first time ever. We're here for children who've never seen the sea. For teenagers who can't remember when they last saw mum smile. For parents and carers dealing with some of life’s toughest challenges. We’re here for young carers, grandparent carers. For families facing illness, isolation, or bereavement. Whatever the weather, time spent together – even a day away - helps build relationships, confidence and hope for the future.