Conference 2025
Welcome to the Travel Centres Conference 2025: 20:20 Vision – How reviewing the past can help us to visualise the future.
This page is your official guide to everything that’s happening throughout the event.
Find a timetable of events below, as well as a snapshot of everything that’s happening as it happens, through our social media.
Don’t forget to share your experiences of the event with us using the official event hashtag, #TravelCConf.
Headline Sponsors
Share your Conference Photos!
Help us bring this year’s conference to life on social media by sharing your experience and tagging the Travel Centres accounts in your posts, stories and reels.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on activity across the weekend and rewarding creativity, consistency and standout storytelling.
To thank you for getting involved, we’ll be awarding:
- Two €50 prizes for the best daily social posts shared on Friday and Saturday
- One €150 prize for the best overall post shared after the conference
Remember to tag Travel Centres and #TravelCConf so we don’t miss your content!
Prize winners will be announced following the event to give us time to properly review all entries and capture the full experience, not just the gala dinner and awards.
WhatsApp Group
To make it easy for all our delegates to stay up to date with conference announcements, prize winners and breaking news, we have set up a dedicated WhatsApp Group. Please check your email for an invitation, and don’t forget to join up!
Conference Programme
Conference Running Order
| Friday, 7 Nov | Content | Speaker |
| 14.00 — 15.00 | Your Modern Travel Agency – AI with a Human Touch — Brief intro to what AI tools are and how to use them responsibly | Sean Fahey |
| 15.00 — 16.30 | 1st Closed Session | Various |
| 16.30 — 16.45 | Refreshment Break | |
| 16.45 — 17.30 | 2nd Closed Session | Various |
| 17.30 — 18.30 | Vertical Systems update presentation | Darren Manning, Director of Sales |
| 19.45 — 20.30 | Pre-Dinner Drinks — Sponsored by Sunway | |
| 20.30 — 22.30 | Owners/Managers Dinner — Sponsored by MSC Cruises Dinner Wines — Sponsored by Hertz After-Dinner Entertainment — Sponsored by Sun Transfers |
| Sat, 8 Nov | Content | Speaker |
| 08.30 — 09.30 | Registration | |
| 09.30 — 09.34 | Conference officially opened by ITAA President | Tom Randles |
| 09.35 — 09.55 | “Not just another awards ceremony: How TTG’s Top 50 Travel Agencies programme generates valuable market data and supports agents who are striving to improve… | Pippa Jacks |
| 09.56 — 10.00 | Sponsor Presentation by MSC Cruises | Suzanne Rowe |
| 10.02 — 10.42 | Package Holiday Litigation – the Litigator’s Perspective | John Sheehy & Eimear Gray |
| 10.44 — 11.04 | Refreshment Break — Sponsored by Tui | |
| 11.05 — 11.45 | Surviving the High Street | Sandra Corkin |
| 11.47 — 11.55 | Joint Headline Sponsor Presentation | Jennifer Callister & Valerie Murphy |
| 11.56 — 12.46 | Boarding Passes for All: Goal Setting That Fuels Transformation | Gerry Duffy |
| 12.47 — 12.52 | Closing Words | Adam Weatherley |
| 12.55 — 13.55 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 — 15.45 | Speed-Dating — Part 1 | |
| 15.45 — 16.00 | Afternoon Refreshment Break — Sponsored by Tui | |
| 16.00 — 17.45 | Speed-Dating — Part 2 | |
| 17.45 — 19.15 | At Your Leisure | |
| 19.15 — 20.00 | Pre-Dinner Drinks — Sponsored by Melia Hotels | |
| 20.00 — 22.45 | Gala Dinner & Awards | |
| 22.45 — 23.00 | Prize Draw | |
| 23.00 — 01.00 | Band starts | |
| 01.00 — 03.00 | Disco starts |
We look forward to welcoming you to Lawlor’s Hotel, Naas, from 7-8th Nov 2025.
