Established in 1980, Sunset Travel Ltd, has been one of the pioneers in luxury travel for over 35 years.
Travel-pa Homeworking
Established in 2012, Travel-pa is the retail and wholesale homeworking division, approaching 70 homeworkers it is the fastest growing subsidiary within the group. The homeworking commission-based, role gives you the means to establish your ‘OWN TRAVEL BUSINESS' within a few days.
As a
Travel-pa Homeworker you have the option to be the retailer and wholesaler enabling you to sell all tour operators,’ holidays and travel arrangements in the traditional way, unhampered by the restrictions on suppliers that are imposed by many other travel agencies - whether home working or on the high street.
Take an in-depth look via this recruitment website to establish how Travel-pa can instantly help you to run your business from home. As an ABTA, ATOL and IATA bonded business we have all licenses required to trade legally alongside professional indemnified insurance.
Advanced In-house Systems
We take great pride in our ongoing technological advancements from our bespoke ‘Nexus system’ supporting your CRM alongside a quoting suite and 'Illusions wholesale system' with its nett flights module and land booking engine.
Embedded in Nexus is the Industry known Homeworking system (Traveltek) for everyday use, with its cruise, multi-package and multiple xml feeds from many of the major suppliers. Our complete IT software enables you to be running your business, with Travel-pa, in a matter of days.
Family Run
This is a family run organisation. The Kaumaya family originate from the island of Mauritius and have three family members working as directors in the business. Harvin Kaumaya is Managing Director of Sunset Travel Ltd and holding company, Hamish Kaumaya is the Founder and Managing Director of Travel-pa and Shamira Kaumaya is Product Director of Sunset’s overall operation. This means that as owner managers there is little red tape and a will to work effectively with a can-do approach. Over 40 staff members are employed in its fully owned corporate headquarters based in Croydon, Surrey.
Related brands
The group operates several brands.
Sunset Faraway Holidays has been selling long-haul holidays to the trade (travel agents) since 1983 where it produced it's first Mauritius and Seychelles 8 page brochure. Now a well-established brand in the independent high street, its brochure is racked by over 600 agents to include Advantage Travel Centers, Global Travel agents, Hays Travel as well as many upmarket independent high street agencies.
Sunset was one of the first companies to have a dedicated Indian Ocean brochure and remains a huge player to Mauritius, Maldives and The Seychelles. You can access Sunset’s current 230 page luxury brochure by visiting (Sunset Brochure) .Hotels and Resorts featured in this brochure are directly contracted by our in-house ‘Product Team’ who are always on hand to give advice and help if trying to secure the booking where you need a price match or value extras such as an upgrade to ensure the bookings comes to you rather than a competing agent or tour operator.
Featured Destinations
Featured destinations include Indian Ocean – Mauritius, Maldives, Seychelles, Reunion, Sri Lanka. Arabian Gulf – Dubai, Ras Al Kaimah, Abu Dhabi and Oman. Africa – Morocco, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, South Africa and Botswana. Far East - Thailand, Malaysia, Bali, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines and Japan. Caribbean - Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, Dominican Republic, St Lucia, Barbados, Grenada, The Bahamas and Mexico. Finally French Polynesia and Latin America. For help with any of our featured products, Shamira (Product Director), Caroline (Caribbean & South America) or Marina (Far East) are available (formal introductions will be made on your training day).
Also selling directly to the consumer is Luxury Holidays Direct, a brand offering much of the same product but geared towards the independent holiday planner who prefers to source their travel arrangements online.