Next Generation Travel on track for record year

Lancashire firm Next Generation Travel (NGT) is set for its busiest 12-month period to date as it celebrates its fifth anniversary.

The Blackpool-based educational travel company has seen its turnover increase fifteen-fold since it was established in 2010. Now, it expects to carry over 35k passengers by the end of its 2015/16 trading year.

In comparison, 2014/15 saw the firm carry 27k passengers, while the 2013/14 figure was 17k.

NGT’s managing director, Deborah Beckett, said: “We are proud to have exceeded our projections for growth in such a short time and to have become a dominant force in the educational travel market.

“We are due to achieve our vision a year earlier than we anticipated so we are now undergoing a full strategic review to set ourselves even more ambitious targets still keeping our customers central to everything we do.”

NGT, which employs more than 40 people, acquired Cambridgeshire-based tour operator FHT Travel Ltd in 2013, a move that increased NGT’s market share and broadened its offering with additional routes in London, European and the US.

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