Phone: 8087 3310
Fax: 08 8087 8175
Email: jetsetbhq@iinet.net.au
Jetset is one of Australia's most trusted and well respected brands, with over 40 years travel experience and over 400 travel agencies represented throughout Australia.
Jetset started as a small one-man travel agency in Sunshine, Victoria in the early 1960's and became the forerunner of one of the most recognisable brands and largest travel companies. By the closing of the 1970's offices were opening the UK, Singapore and USA where Jetset launched it's own holiday program to the Orient, South America and the South Pacific with the UK office launching holiday tours to Australia. Plus Jetset was the official agency to handle all ticketing arrangements for Australians attending the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and repeated again in 1980 for the Moscow Games and the LA Games of '84.
By 1980, Jetset had become Australia's largest provider of international holiday travel programmes, followed by expansion through New Zealand and programs to Asia, Europe, and North America. During these mid 80's Jetset pioneered the use of video technology to develop video brochures for each major destinations to be used by the travel agency network and prospective travellers. This had never been done before and was used as a benchmark for use in many other industries.Jetset had also established its own travel industry training college, as by the end of this decade Jetset had 270 semi-branded Jetset Travel Centres and a staff of over 3000 in Australia alone.
The 1990's bought massive change to the Jetset business when the domestic pilots strike crippled the local travel industry, along with the recession Australia was experiencing. Plus the Gulf War began in 1991 which had a huge impact on the company with customers travel arrangements either interrupted or cancelled on an international scale.
Over the next two years Jetset rebuilt its business to a turnover of over $1billion annually. Jetset became a franchisor and fully branded their travel outlets under franchise agreements. During this period Jetset entered into the holiday technology market, a 24 hours a day system for reservations, inventories and accounting, called Worldmaster. It was launched internationally and accessed by over 250,000 users worldwide, and became a winner of the Export Achievement awards.
As the new millennium got into swing a new piece of history was written when ownerships changed and Jetset Retail Travel was purchased from Jetset Tours Pty Ltd by Heartlink as part of several acquisitions and agreements to establish the largest network of travel centres in Australia. The horrendous events of September 11 and the ultimate demise of Ansett Australia and its subsidiary Traveland became the catalyst for the company to secure the Traveland franchise centres, adding 180 of the former Traveland sites to the group.
In 2002 Sintak Pty Ltd made a take over offer and are now the major shareholders of the Jetset Travelworld Group as it is called today.
With over 700 retail travel agencies within the network, Jetset Travelworld is the largest retail distribution group in Australia.
Today, Jetset's travel consultants have an enormous wealth of experience and extensive knowledge available to share with you.
To travel is one of the most exciting, rewarding and educational experiences anyone can do in a lifetime, let us take this journey with you when planning your next holiday itinerary.
Call you local Jetset travel consultant today 0880873310.
