Express Tasman alliance

Expres Travel Group late last month announced a new “strategic partnership” with New Zealand’s First Travel Group – the network of independent agencies which saw its numbers significantly boosted earlier this year by a mass movement of former Helloworld members who were part of the disaffected United Travel network. Express ceo Tom Manwaring described the alliance as a “meeting of very similar minds,” with both groups owner-operated and having “very close values and business goals which can be garnered to produce real benefits for our