Older travellers get bigger choice of breaks with launch of JG Travel Group
Coach tour operator expands by adding cruise, European air and events trips
Cheltenham, 6 September 2017: Cruises, Continental touring holidays and trips to events are among the wider choice of great-value breaks that older travellers can look forward to with today’s news that JG Travel Group (JGTG) has acquired Omega Holidays Group (OHG).
This formidable new player in the travel sector has united four brands that focus on holidaymakers aged between 60 and 80, bringing a bumper choice of inspiring and better-value holidays – including its exclusive tours in association with the National Trust – to a wider audience.
The newly extended range of interesting and affordable trips will be provided by: Omega Holidays, a specialist in short breaks centring on events such as concert and theatre performances, and European air holidays; Cruise Connections, supplier of worldwide cruise offers; Just Go! Holidays, a leading door-to-door group tour operator; and Albion Journeys, which offers heritage tours of the UK and Ireland for the North American market.
The move signals an exciting period of significant growth for JGTG through the acquisition of brands offering complementary products. Backed by a highly supportive private equity group and with a strong leadership team, JGTG is set to continue expanding through acquisition into 2020 and beyond.
Luis Arteaga, Group Chairman and Chief Executive of JGTG, said:
“The combination of these two significant businesses will offer customers a wide range of unique, experiential holidays at value prices.”
Nigel Adams, former owner of Omega Holidays Group, who becomes Commercial Director of JGTG, and remains Director of Omega and Cruise Connections, added:
“JGTG always puts its customers first. We believe these core values are shared by the Omega family of brands.”
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JG Travel Group (JGTG) focuses on bringing the freedom of travel to more than 130,000 older people across the UK each year. The group exists to make travel easy, affordable and fun by offering to take care of the arrangements from door to door. All brands within the group seek to innovate and provide inspiration through an interesting and engaging range of value-for-money tours from short breaks and classic seaside-resort holidays to heritage tours, events and European escapes.
As the only recognised travel partner of both the National Trust and Historic Houses Association, JGTG supports Britain’s heritage and uses this knowledge to inspire travellers from the US to explore the history of the UK, Ireland and Islands under the Albion Journeys brand. The new group has a turnover of more than £35 million.
JGTG also supports Mary’s Meals, a UK-based charity with the vision that every child receives one daily meal at their place of education. The charity works in 14 underdeveloped countries across the world.
JGTG was founded in 1996 as The Coach Holiday Warehouse, becoming Just Go! Holidays from 2011, and JGTG in September 2017. Since 2016 it has been backed by Kings Park Capital, a private equity firm specialising in investments in the leisure sector.
