John Semple Travel, has won The UK Principals' Regional Leisure Agent Awards of the Year 2009 – (Small Agent – Scotland) at a glittering ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, London.

The Agent Achievement Awards are one of the industry’s most prestigious awards, voted for and judged by principals in the travel industry. The awards, now in their 13th year, recognize excellence and achievement among the top performing travel agents in the UK.

On receiving the award on behalf of the company at the ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on Thursday (23 April), Mr Paul Semple said “It was a great privilege to receive this award on behalf all our hard working staff”

John Semple Travel is one of Scotland’s largest family run travel businesses, with brothers & sisters John, Paul, Marie and Angela all actively involved in the day to day running of the company. Now in its 26th year, having been founded in 1983 by John Semple Snr, the business is based in Bishopbriggs, Glasgow and employs over 30 staff. As well as a high street shop, John Semple Travel also boasts several specialized departments based over 3 floors at their offices in Bishopbriggs:

CruiseKings – one of the UK’s largest cruise agents

SkiKings – offering ski holidays for skiers, by skiers!

GolfKings – Golf Holidays – for Golfers, by Golfers!

CanadaHolidayKings – specialized, bespoke holidays to Canada and Alaska

SantaClausTrips – offering trips to Lapland, the home of “Santa Claus”

DanceKings- over 15 years in organizing dance holidays all over Europe

Small enough to care, large enough to count!