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Welcome to Barrhead Travel Careers page. Our dedicated page for those in travel and those looking to begin their career within the industry. People make places.

Here at Barrhead Travel we know that our people are the foundation of our business success. Barrhead Travel began in 1975 in the Glasgow suburb of Barrhead, Scotland; our company has come a long way in 40 years. Barrhead Travel is Scotland’s largest independent travel group, and one of the largest in the UK. We now employ 900+ people across 61 locations, with more planned for the near future. A ma

jor player in the UK travel market, we are also recognised by independent researchers as one of the best-run and most financially-strong travel businesses in Britain, thanks to our ability to identify new routes to market and introduce exciting products that capture the public’s imagination. In December 2015, we were delighted to have opened our first branded store in England. Located in the intu Eldon Square Shopping centre in Newcastle, this flagship store marks the start of our ambitious plans to grow our UK network. We’ve never been afraid of embracing change and grasping the opportunities that come our way. Thanks to careful planning and proactive strategies, Barrhead Travel carries over 300,000 passengers a year. Work with us, and you will find a company with a hands-on, proactive philosophy that has helped it to become a market leader. The hands-on, can-do philosophy that characterises Barrhead Travel means that we have more UK branches in the pipeline, as well as expansion of our franchise outlets and homeworking division. Even greater things are planned for the years ahead! Thanks for taking the time to read our careers page. This page allows you to track our latest vacancies, as and when they come out. Feel free to send us a message or call our Recruitment Team on 0141 488 7324.

26/03/2025

🌟 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 – 𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐌𝐜𝐂𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐲 🌟

Congratulations to our colleague, Hannah from The Gyle branch who has been nominated by her fellow team members as Colleague of the Month for February! 🥳

In recognition of all her exceptional work, Hannah will be given a certificate of recognition, as well as shopping vouchers. Hannah has also chosen the Hopscotch Foundation as her charity of choice to receive a £100 donation.

A big well done, and thanks for all your hard work!

11/03/2025

‼️ 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆! 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐅𝐎𝐑𝐓 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐃 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 ‼️

Do you want to work with an award-winning Barrhead Travel team, voted one of the ‘Top 100 Companies to Work for’?

Here is your opportunity to make your career thrive in 2025 and join us at our Fort Kinnaird Recruitment Event.

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Thursday 27 March
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 6 - 8pm
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: Fort Kinnaird Store, Fort Kinnaird Retail Park Edinburgh, EH15 3RD

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲:
📞 0141 488 7324
💻 Careers.BarrheadTravel.co.uk

08/03/2025

🌟 𝗛𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗬 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗪𝗢𝗠𝗘𝗡'𝗦 𝗗𝗔𝗬 🌟

It’s International Women’s Day – a day to celebrate the talented women that we have across the Barrhead Travel Group. We’re supporting the campaign this year to put a spotlight on the need for progress for worldwide gender equality.

We're committed to supporting opportunities for everyone - and we're proud that more than 70 percent of our management team are women, including our President Jacqueline Dobson and Managing Director, Nicki Tempest-Mitchell.

Grass-roots development is at the heart of what we do – and we’re particularly proud to continue supporting young women to enter the world of work and provide them with a career for life via our apprenticeship programme.

Women account for the majority of positions across the global travel and tourism industry, and we will continue to champion tourism as a force for good that can help promote gender equality.

03/03/2025

‼️ 𝐖𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆! 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍 𝐔𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 ‼️

Do you want to work with an award-winning Barrhead Travel team, voted one of the ‘Top 100 Companies to Work for’?

Here is your opportunity to make your career thrive in 2025 and join us at our Bearsden Recruitment Event.

𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Thursday 13 March
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 6 - 8pm
𝗣𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: Bearsden Store, Milngavie Road, Bearsden, G61 2TX

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲:
📞 0141 488 7324
💻 Careers.BarrheadTravel.co.uk

27/02/2025

🌟 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 – 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐜𝐆𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐧 🌟

Congratulations to our incredible colleague, Leanne from Air & Ticketing, who has been nominated by her fellow team members as Colleague of the Month for January! 🥳

In recognition of all her outstanding work, Leanne will be given shopping vouchers, as well as a certificate of recognition. Leanne has also chosen the Doing It For Daniel Foundation as her charity of choice to receive a £100 donation.

Thanks for all your hard work, we’re proud to have you as part of the team!

26/02/2025

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭...

Our Regional Sales Manager Matt regularly travels across Scotland and would love to meet you to discuss the fantastic opportunities we currently have available at Barrhead Travel.

Matt will be happy to meet you somewhere locally (it doesn't have to be in a Barrhead Travel office or branch if you would like to be discreet) to have an informal chat about how Barrhead Travel can help you move your career forward, our industry-leading training programme, uncapped earning potential and fantastic educational visits to destinations and ships.

Contact him via email [email protected] or call him on 07803625210 to arrange an appointment.

14/02/2025

🌟 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐥𝐞 🌟

Meet Molly Lavery, Social Media Assistant at Barrhead Travel. Molly graduated from her Modern Apprenticeship around a year ago and is now in a full-time role within the Social Media team. Her role includes looking after social media pages, and writing up content for blogs, amongst many other things.

Learn more about Molly’s journey, and her role at Barrhead Travel, as well as her favourite part about working here 👇👇

12/02/2025

🌟 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 🌟

Meet Jade Semple, Head of Business Development at Barrhead Travel. Jade started as a modern apprentice in January 2011 and now heads our Business Development department.

Learn more about Jade’s journey and her role at Barrhead Travel, as well as some of her favourite parts about working here 👇👇

10/02/2025

🌟 𝐈𝐭'𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤! 🌟

Through our Modern Apprenticeship programme, at Barrhead Travel we offer young people the opportunity to learn and grow their career in various roles within the UK’s retail travel industry. We’re pleased to say that 100% of last year’s intake have graduated with full-time positions!

From travel consultant to website and business development apprenticeships, we have 20 Modern Apprentice places for onboarding between May and July in various areas, departments, and branches around Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. If you are interested in learning more about our apprenticeships, we’d love to hear from you!

✉️ 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹: [email protected]
☎️ 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹: 𝟬𝟭𝟰𝟭𝟰𝟴𝟴𝟳𝟯𝟮𝟰

03/02/2025

𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐋! ⬆️⬆️⬆️

We've had an extra-ordinary 2024, and we've committed to taking everything to the Next Level and Thrive in 2025!

To realise our huge ambition, our teams are growing and we have immediate starts available right now across the country.

There's lots of reasons that working with Barrhead Travel is a great choice. Here's just a few:
✅ Uncapped earning potential
✅ Excellent progression opportunities
✅ Best in industry training programme
✅ Opportunity to visit a range of fantastic destinations and step on board incredible ships
✅ A wide range of employee benefits including generous discounts on holidays
✅ 34 days annual leave (well, you need time off to enjoy those amazing holiday discounts, don't you?)

And what's it like to work here? Well, we were placed as one of the best companies to work for in the UK’s Best Large Companies list last year- the only travel agency on the list and our 2024 results are pending so watch this space!!! 🏆🏆🏆

So what are you waiting for? Tomorrow begins today!

🖥️ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: barrheadtravel.co.uk/careers
☎️ 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝟬𝟭𝟰𝟭 𝟰𝟴𝟴 𝟳𝟯𝟮𝟰

01/02/2025

🤩 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐥 ‘𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐲’ 𝐚𝐭 𝐁𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 🤩

Today our Barrhead Travel staff have been going back to our roots in stores across Scotland, England and Northern Ireland today.

We have 60 of our incredible supplier partners and 35 senior & support team members to support our retail branches and cruise call centres.

We’ve had a fantastic day with our suppliers helping customers book their dream holiday, and showcase their incredible exclusive offers 🚢✈️🤍

Thanks to all our suppliers, staff, and customers who joined us today!

24/01/2025

23/01/2025

🌟 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 – 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰🌟

Congratulations to our incredible colleague, Juliette from our Product Team, who has been nominated by her fellow team members as Colleague of the Month for December! 🥳

In recognition of all her outstanding work, Juliette will be given shopping vouchers, as well as a certificate of recognition. Juliette has also chosen St Mary’s Hospice, Ulverston as her charity of choice to receive a £100 donation.

Thanks for all your hard work, we’re proud to have you as part of the team!

06/01/2025

🏆 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝟒 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫! 🏆

The Cruise Stars event was bigger and better than ever this year, celebrating success, innovation, and the brightest talents in the cruise industry.

We are delighted to announce that Barrhead Travel had four very worthy winners!

A massive congratulations to our winners:

🌟 National Travel Agent Sales Star
Deborah Newton, Travel Consultant, Barrhead Travel

🌟 River Sales Star of the Year
Hannah Callaghan, Cruise Consultant, Barrhead Travel

🌟 Travel Agent Management Star
Lisa Kemp, Manager, Barrhead Travel

🌟 Editor’s Choice Award
Nicola Cowan, Product Manager, The Cruise Specialists

Congratulations again to our winners!

13/12/2024

🎅🎄 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐌𝐀𝐒 𝐉𝐔𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐃𝐀𝐘 𝐀𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐋 🎄🎅

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting Christmas Jumper Day, all around our offices, and in our branches, in order to raise Christmas cheer, as well as donations for a good cause. Everyone got to wear their most festive outfit, “elf-tastic” attire, and their “reindeer-ready” looks, and spread around “yule-tide” cheer.

Throughout the day, donations were collected to raise money for Save The Children – a charity which helps children get the best future, and creates lasting change for children in the UK, and around the world. Thank you to everyone who took part and donated to such an important charity!

Seasons greetings from all of us at Barrhead Travel 🎄

28/11/2024

𝐈𝐓'𝐒 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐍𝐄𝐗𝐓 𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐋 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐁𝐀𝐑𝐑𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐋! ⬆️⬆️⬆️

Barrhead Travel is the best place to work in the industry. Don't just take it from us - we were placed as one of the best companies to work for in the UK’s Best Companies list for the third year in a row!! 🏆🏆🏆

We pride ourselves on being the best in the industry - the best workplace, the best people, the best training programmes, the best progression opportunities - the list goes on!

We've had an extra-ordinary 2024, and we're going to the Thrive in 2025! Our teams are growing and we have immediate starts available right now across the country.

If you want to work in the best environment, now is the perfect time to join us ahead of the peak booking season.

There's lots of reasons that working with Barrhead Travel is a great choice. Here's just a few:
✅ Uncapped earning potential
✅ Excellent progression opportunities
✅ Best in industry training programme
✅ Opportunity to visit a range of fantastic destinations and step on board incredible ships
✅ A wide range of employee benefits including generous discounts on holidays
✅ 34 days annual leave (well, you need time off to enjoy those amazing holiday discounts, don't you?)

So what are you waiting for? Tomorrow begins today!

🖥️ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: barrheadtravel.co.uk/careers
☎️ 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝟬𝟭𝟰𝟭 𝟰𝟴𝟴 𝟳𝟯𝟮𝟰

27/11/2024

We’ve recently had the pleasure of being invited to Glasgow Airport to get more insight into the new Twilight Bag Drop service offered by EasyJet🧳. We also got a tour of the airport, which included seeing and learning more about new technologies being implemented around the airport, as well as how the baggage system works behind the scenes.

EasyJet’s Twilight Bag Drop service at Glasgow Airport is provided to anyone who has a morning flight with EasyJet the next day. This service allows customers to drop their bags off the evening before, providing a smoother and faster experience the next day when flying🛫 – a great service, especially for families with young kids. 1 hour free parking is provided whilst dropping off bags, and only one person needs to go check in the bags at the airport the evening before.

Thank you so much for having us Glasgow Airport and easyJet!

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Recruitment Dept, 31-33 Gordon Street
Glasgow
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Telephone

+441414887324

Website

http://www.barrheadtravel.co.uk/careers

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‼️ 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐒! 𝐖𝐄’𝐑𝐄 𝐇𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐍 𝐍𝐄𝐖𝐓𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐀𝐁𝐁𝐄𝐘 ‼️ 𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑓 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔! Here are few reasons why working with Barrhead Travel is a great choice for you: ✅ Uncapped earning potential ✅ Excellent progression opportunities ✅ Best in industry training programme ✅ Opportunity to visit a range of fantastic destinations and step on board incredible ships ✅ A wide range of employee benefits including generous discounts on holidays ✅ 34 days annual leave (well, you need time off to enjoy those amazing holiday discounts, don't you?) If our recruitment video and reasons to join has inspired you, we would love to hear from you. 🖥️ 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: barrheadtravel.co.uk/careers ☎️ 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹, 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗻 07955 285 662

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People make places. Here at Barrhead Travel we know that our people are the foundation of our business success. Barrhead Travel began in 1975 in the Glasgow suburb of Barrhead, Scotland; our company has come a long way in 40 years. Barrhead Travel is Scotland’s largest independent travel group, and one of the largest in the UK. We now employ 900+ people across 61 locations, with more planned for the near future. A major player in the UK travel market, we are also recognised by independent researchers as one of the best-run and most financially-strong travel businesses in Britain, thanks to our ability to identify new routes to market and introduce exciting products that capture the public’s imagination. In December 2015, we were delighted to have opened our first branded store in England. Located in the intu Eldon Square Shopping centre in Newcastle, this flagship store marks the start of our ambitious plans to grow our UK network. We’ve never been afraid of embracing change and grasping the opportunities that come our way. Thanks to careful planning and proactive strategies, Barrhead Travel carries over 300,000 passengers a year. Work with us, and you will find a company with a hands-on, proactive philosophy that has helped it to become a market leader. The hands-on, can-do philosophy that characterises Barrhead Travel means that we have more UK branches in the pipeline, as well as expansion of our franchise outlets and homeworking division. Even greater things are planned for the years ahead! Thanks for taking the time to read our careers page. This page allows you to track our latest vacancies, as and when they come out. Feel free to send us a message or call our Recruitment Team on 0141 223 6655.