Welcome to Great Experience Travel - using our experience to make your travels great.
We are specialist’s in all areas of travel there is no booking to big nor to small we won’t take on, We can book anything from luxury to budget or around the world to UK breaks !!! Meet the team below.
We are a independent travel company based in Witney in Oxfordshire, Between the staff team, we have been lucky enough to visit countries all over the globe, and we like nothing more than being able to share our knowledge and passion for travel with our clients. Whether you are looking for a budget late deal to the sun or snow, planning the trip of a lifetime, or are thinking of your wedding or honeymoon in paradise, let us do all the hard work so that we find the ideal holiday for you, whatever your budget. Being independent, we are not limited to the number of companies that we can work with, so we can offer you the largest possible choice of holidays offered by the widest selection of tour operators.
After all, our great experience in travel is only worth anything if we can use it to give you a great travel experience.
Meet the Great Experience Travel Team
David - before setting up Great Experience Travel in 2007, David worked as the director of a number of specialist travel companies and tour operators, since starting in the industry in 1981. Coming from an originally French-family, he trained initially as a translator in German and French, lived in Germany for 14 months, before moving to Austria where he worked for 7 years as a ski rep/ski instructor, progressing to become Head Rep, Area Manager, and finally Regional Director for Austria, Switzerland and [then] Yugoslavia. He returned to the UK with wife, Debbie, to become the Head of Reservations and Administration for the tour operator he had worked for in Europe. He left after 2 years, and joined Abingdon-based, Sportsworld Group, spending the next 17 years working in the Olympic Games movement organising travel, event ticketing and hospitality for teams, officials, spectators and sponsors to Winter and Summer Olympic Games, and more widely to a range of major international sports event around the world. He has worked and travelled extensively. His specialities are skiing, lakes & mountains holidays, Scandinavia, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and Malaysia, but also recently discovered New York. He is always working on new travel opportunities such as developing his passion for Austria, Switzerland and Germany into their own stand-alone travel brands, to be followed shortly by sites dedicated to Italy and France. He gives talks and lectures on many travel-related topics to different groups and including local FE colleges, and is also a Mentor to Final Year and Post-Graduate students at Oxford Brookes University, studying for their degrees in International Tourism and Hospitality Management. He was Travel Editor and lead-contributor to B4 - Business, Oxfordshire's leading business-to-business magazine, and was for many years, the longest serving member of the Executive Judging Panel for the Oxfordshire Restaurant Awards. He acts as a consultant on travel and tourism to a range of organisations, and has also worked as the Tourism Advisor to the Diocese of Oxford, and is a Trustee of the Churches' Visitor and Tourism Association. David's direct e-mail is: [email protected].
Mandy - started working as a travel agent on the day after her 16th birthday, and we are far too diplomatic to say how many years ago that was - but certainly enough to give her a wealth of experience. She also spent a period working as a travel company rep in the Greek islands. Her favourite destinations include the Maldives, where she's visited more than 20 of the islands, the Seychelles, Mauritius but is also our Disney and cruise specialist. Mandy has recently been on an inspection trip to Mexico. As the Mum of 2 great kids, aged 16 and 12, Mandy is particularly adept at finding great value holidays to get families away during school holidays, and avoiding many of the price-hikes that we know put many people off travelling at these peak time. Mandy's direct e-mail is: [email protected].
Sally - is our newest recruit and joins us after the demise of Thomas Cook, where she worked for 19 years. She brings a wealth of additional experience to the office team, taking the overall years in the travel industry combined with David and Mandy to over 85 ! Sally brings a great knowledge of the more traditional holiday destinations, especially Turkey, which is her particular favourite. She'll join Mandy as our cruise team, and she's also very strong in her relationship with key wedding and honeymoon suppliers, such as Sandals. Sally's direct e-mail is: [email protected].
