Specialist recruitment solutions for leisure travel

Fi Morrison-Arnthal, award-winning recruiter

Ambitions Travel Recruitment is the leading, award-winning, global specialist leisure travel recruitment agency, placing professionals across all areas of leisure travel.

With over 100 years of combined experience working in leisure travel, our team’s deep expertise ensures we understand the unique demands of each role, connecting exceptional talent with leading leisure travel businesses, including, but not limited to, tour operators, luxury travel, tailor-made travel, safari companies, expedition and adventure travel, ocean and river cruise lines, ski operators, and UHNW concierge businesses in the UK, South Africa, GCC, Asia, and North America.

Our story

Setting new standards in specialist leisure travel recruitment.

We are the leading, global, specialist, leisure travel recruitment agency, committed to delivering exceptional talent across all areas of leisure travel. With a team of experts who have firsthand experience in the sub-sectors we recruit for, we leverage deep industry knowledge and an extensive global network to provide an invaluable, ethical service. Our goal is to be the go-to solution for leisure travel operators, delivering talent that is genuinely hard to find, attract, and retain without specialist headhunting support.

Innovative & effective talent solutions

Our innovative recruitment practices are designed to optimise efficiency and effectiveness, ensuring shorter ‘Time to Fill’ metrics and high ‘Interview to Placement’ conversion rates. We focus on delivering quality over quantity, presenting clients with a well-matched applicant pool through rigorous screening and shortlisting processes. Our high ‘Offer Acceptance Rate’ is driven by strong market perception; clients and candidates trust our expertise, our process, and the calibre of opportunities we represent.

Empowering leisure travel professionals with free eLearning

Ambitions Travel Recruitment and Training offer FREE travel skills courses.

True travel expertise isn’t just about destination and product knowledge; you also need essential soft skills to achieve travel career development and business success.

Experience interactive lessons that go beyond video learning, written by travel industry experts, which help you thrive and excel in your role.

Our mission

To connect the right people with the right roles, in the right way.

We work with a select number of clients and candidates. Not because we are cautious, but because we are considered. Every search we take on receives our full attention. Every candidate we represent is someone we would place our name behind.

We are headhunters. We find talent that is not looking, leisure travel professionals who would never respond to a job board but who are open to the right conversation. We reach them through relationships, discretion, and a genuine understanding of what makes a role worth leaving for.

Central to that is our commitment to continually growing our global network and candidate database, so that when a brief lands, the right person is already known to us. Every connection we make, every resource we share, every conversation we have adds to a body of knowledge and trust that makes each search sharper than the last.

In addition, we are passionate about providing FREE elearning soft skills solutions that enable industry professionals to enhance their skills, stay up-to-date and advance their careers.

Through our combined recruitment and e-learning expertise, we strive to create a brighter future for our candidates and clients.

Ambitious

We hold ourselves to a high standard in the quality of our shortlists, the precision of our briefings, and the relationships we build over time. Ambition, for us, is not about scale. It is about doing fewer things, to a higher standard, for longer.

Balanced

We give equal weight to the needs of our clients and the interests of our candidates. A good placement serves both. We do not push roles that do not fit, and we do not present candidates who are not right. Long-term reputation matters more than short-term results.

Persistent

The right candidate is rarely the obvious one. We search further, look more carefully, and take longer when the brief demands it. Finding exceptional people in a niche industry requires patience. We do not settle.

Nurturing

We invest in the wider industry through sharing knowledge with our blogs, free ebooks, free soft skills elearning, and through the quality of every interaction we have with candidates at every stage of their career. The relationships we build now are the placements of the future.

Innovating

We are expert headhunters. We use a multi-channel approach to continually develop our global network and database of passive radar candidates, so we have the best people in leisure travel on our radar long before a vacancy exists.

Need specialist leisure travel recruitment advice?
Get in touch with our team today.

Get in touch with our specialist team today.

Chat to us