About Us

Change your life for the better, let Platinum Travel Recruitment locate your dream career.

Our Story – Travel, Leisure & Event Recruitment Specialists

Platinum Travel Recruitment are recognised travel recruitment specialists within the Events, Hospitality, Leisure, Lifestyle & Travel industry for many years. Our dedicated consultants possess a profound depth of knowledge of these industries having worked in travel & leisure, with an array of contacts throughout the UK and beyond.

We ensure that our clients have access to the cream of the crop within the industries and candidates can enjoy exciting career-enhancing opportunities. The services that we provide to our clients and candidates show that we are not just recruiters, we are HR professionals, career advisors, cv builders and experts in the travel industry.
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Our Milestones

Our Milestone

Platinum Travel Recruitment – an award winning travel & leisure recruitment agency

2019 - CV Magazine proudly awarded - Best Travel and Leisure Recruitment Specialists.

2020 - The Southern Enterprise Awards - Best Travel Recruitment Specialists.

2020 - Corporate Vision Awards - Best Leisure & Leisure Recruitment Specialists.

2021 - Innovation & Excellence Awards - Best Travel Recruitment Consultancy in the UK.

2023 - Corporate Live Wire - Travel Recruitment Specialists.

Our Achievements

Why use Platinum Travel Recruitment?

Employers

We have the ability to supply professional pre-scanned travel, lifestyle, leisure and events candidates screened from consultants with years of experience in the industry.

Quality applicants rather than quantity.

We appreciate locating the right candidate can be a challenge. We save you time and money on locating candidates by short listing, interviewing, database searching, exclusive head hunting and advertising the vacancies. Our team also assists with assistance in creating the right job specification that matches what you are looking for. With our strong marketing presence, we are able to target the best applicants right from the outset.

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Interviews are only organised for applicants clients wish to see free of charge. Once the candidate is placed a competitive fee will be charged along with free trial periods for candidates starting with your organisation.

 

Many clients use us on an exclusive basis as we listen to requirements and offer the highest level of customer satisfaction whilst understanding your business needs. Platinum Travel Recruitment have successfully maintained long term relationships with clients and candidates.Each consultant account manages the employer from start to finish offering impeccable service and gaining results in efficient time.

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We meet each client to truly understand the company culture and what is required to make the company successful. We offer advice on the current travel market and go the extra mile, no matter how long the recruitment journey is. We offer a truly unique service to an array of travel & tourism sectors including Airlines, Business Travel, Cruises, Events, Hotels, Inbound and Outbound Tour Operators, Travel Agents, Representation and Lifestyle. We love, breathe and live travel.

Having offices strategically placed in Leeds, the Midlands, Wales and Greater London, enabling us to service a large geographical area and provide that face to face contact for both clients and job seekers.

If you are looking to expand your company or need recruitment advice feel free to call us on 0208 004 4375.

Candidates

Assistance with the interview and application process, whilst providing free career and cv advice. Our experienced and qualified consultants will listen to your requirements in locating the right role and progress your career. We have a range of opportunities including Business Travel, Executive, Marketing, Product, Sales, plus more many more exciting opportunities to enhance your career.

Our service is free and kept strictly confidential

With our travel industry connections, Platinum Travel Recruitment can assist with your career journey and account manage each candidate from start to finish. We listen to your needs and requirements, with proven experience in achieving results.

Change your life for the better, let Platinum Travel Recruitment locate your dream career.

Utilise your experience and achieve your goal – Send us your CV today.

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Collaollaborated With

Reuben’s Retreat

Our team here at Platinum Travel Recruitment are collaborating closely with a great charity, Reuben’s Retreat that supports families bereaved of a child and families of children with a life limiting and life threatening illness. Reuben’s Retreat was born in memory of Reuben Michael Graham who tragically passed away in August 2012, aged just 23 months. Reuben’s Retreat offers a range of services including counselling, support groups, activity & therapy days, short breaks for life-limited children and their families along with bereavement breaks.

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Meet our leadership team.

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Lakshmi
Managing Director
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Alistair
Senior Recruitment Consultant
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Monty
Recruitment Consultant

Testimonials for Candidates

It was great working with Lakshmi. She was friendly, professional and always available for advice. The whole process has been quick and easy. Definitely recommend working with PTR and Lakshmi.
Poorvi Mehta

Product Executive

I would like to say a massive thank you to Hali and the Platinum Travel Team for allowing me to get my first job in the travel industry with an amazing company. Hali was very helpful, professional and responsive. I am very excited to start my new role and would definitely recommend Platinum Travel to anyone looking for a new job in the industry!
Lottie Harrison

Country Specialist

I would like to say a huge thank you to Lakshmi and Platinum Recruitment for helping me to get a fantastic job now as a Business Travel Consultant with a great company. I am very excited and so happy to be starting a new job very soon. The friendly and professional support by emails and Interview tips from Lakshmi was amazing and really helped me to get this new position. I was very impressed with all the support and very high standards of service from Platinum Recruitment to help me get my new job in Travel. I would definitely recommend contacting Lakshmi and Platinum Travel Recruitment to help you find that Important Job.
Bruce Hoare

Senior Business Travel Recruitment

I haven’t stopped celebrating and am very excited to start my new role since Lakshmi gave me the good news. She has been an absolute star right from the beginning to the very end. Thank you so much Lakshmi.
Mary Williams

Entertainment Manager in Business Travel

Testimonials for Candidates

I would just like to thank Lakshmi for her friendly, efficient and professional service and helpful tips in securing a great position. I would highly recommend her services. Thanks Lakshmi, can’t wait to start!
Justine Delport

Senior Travel Consultant

I am extremely excited to start my new role in the Travel Industry, Lakshmi has been so helpful with the whole process and is an absolute star.
Natasha Lane

Trainee Travel Consultant

I strongly recommend Platinum Travel Recruitment to anyone looking for a new role. Lakshmi was very proactive, knowledgeable and engaging in helping me to secure my new dream job. She believed in me from the start and she understood quickly the kind of role I was looking for. She made the whole process (which sometimes can be very stressful) a very positive experience. I am very grateful, thank you all your encouragement and support!
Barbara Janicka

Bespoke Travel Designer

Thank you so much to Platinum Travel Recruitment especially Lakshmi who was an absolute star! from the moment she contacted me all the way though to receiving the job offer, you have been amazing. The tips and information you sent to me for my interview was first class, enabling me to go into the interview with confidence, which enabled me to secure the position. I truly am so grateful and thank you again for a really positive and amazing experience.
Faye Young

Luxury Travel Consultant

Testimonials for Candidates

Platinum Travel Recruitment was a light that showed me the way. All thanks to Lakshmi who was very supportive and did encourage me all the time. I have no words to describe how great I feel about their amazing recruitment services. Many thanks for all.
Wagner Monteiro de Barros

South America Travel Specialist

Thank you Lakshmi, the job is a perfect fit and the process was seamless. Looking forward to starting my new role – thank you for all your help.
Fiona Harper

Customer Services

It was great working with Lakshmi. She was friendly, professional and always available for advice. The whole process has been quick and easy. Definitely recommend working with PTR and Lakshmi.
Poorvi Mehta

Product Executive

I would like to say a massive thank you to Hali and the Platinum Travel Team for allowing me to get my first job in the travel industry with an amazing company. Hali was very helpful, professional and responsive. I am very excited to start my new role and would definitely recommend Platinum Travel to anyone looking for a new job in the industry!
Country Specialist

Executive Chairman

Testimonials for Candidates

The best recruitment company I have dealt with by far, Lakshmi is absolutely fantastic, listened to everything I was looking for and went above and beyond to help me secure the perfect position, really impressed with the service, would recommend to anyone. Thank you again!
Nicola Shelley

Senior Business Travel Consultant

I would highly recommend Platinum Travel Recruitment for their great support and service they provide me, huge huge thanks to Lakshmi, she is really very supportive and helpful. Within a very short time period I got the job in Travel industry and it all happened with the help and efforts from Lakshmi. Thank you for all your help, you are as asset to your company and I shall highly recommend your services to others.
Mansoor Siddiqui

Ticketing & Administration Executive

Excellent support from Lakshmi Thurairatnam found her very helpful honest and always kept me informed. Found a new position within a week of registering with her. I would definitely recommend her to anyone looking for a job in the Travel industry.
Karen Randall

Business Travel Consultant

I had an extremely positive experience with PTR. Lakshmi is always available to assist and to reply to any question, really supportive and her manners make you feel comfortable with the best suggestion and advice. I have truly appreciated the accuracy she puts in each step of the recruitment process, this is not usual and it makes you understand that she knows properly the candidate and the company. I would recommend PTR service to anyone looking for a new role in travel sector.
Clotilde Capecce

Travel Consultant

Testimonials for Candidates

My personal experience with Platinum Travel Recruitment have been exemplary. Having registered with a few agencies, I have found Lakshmi to be proactive and extremely professional in her approach. She is always willing to go that extra mile, understands your needs and offers right advice with your CV to find a suitable position for you. I have found Lakshmi to be very prompt in responding to my calls and emails and keeps me updated throughout the whole process of job placement.I would recommend PT Recruitment to anyone seeking desired roles in the travel industry, whether it be business or leisure travel.
Dipak Sheth

Senior Manager

If it was super-fast replying to emails, friendly attitude, or real professionalism when dealing with requests, there’s not a single thing I could say was wrong during the whole hiring process. Usually the case is that you have to demand an answer multiple times, but with PTR the answers come before the question is placed (literally). You know that feeling when you’re in and out of a busy supermarket in 3 minutes because you’ve been lucky to be the first one on the till they just opened? This is it, just better. 11/10.
Andrej Turbat

Event Manager

I have recommended Platinum Travel Recruitment to my family and friends due to the hard work and determination Lakshmi provided me in seeking my new position. She provided me with good advice for my CV and really does know her stuff. I explained what I was looking for, she got me an interview the next day and got the job immediately. Thanks again for all your hard work.
Amanda Charlton

Tailormade Consultant

Easily the friendliest, most supportive and professional recruitment agent I have come across – a pleasure to work with, and clearly has great relationships with the clients too. Highly recommended! Thanks Lakshmi.
Ian Andrerson

Private Travel Consultant

Testimonials for Candidates

Having been out of work for the first time in many years, I’ve been surprised at the number of agencies and websites out there. Platinum Travel has stood head and shoulders above the rest and have been with me every step of the way throughout my interviews. Lakshmi answers emails and texts almost immediately making you feel special and individual rather than just another jobseeker. Thank you for all your help, you are as asset to your company and I shall recommend your services to others.
Jon Newby

Travel Consultant

In a nut shell, Platinum Travel Recruitment are excellent. Kerry is an extremely diligent, persuasive, personable lady, who with out doubt, excels at her job, simply I can’t say enough good things about her work. As a person who has talked to a few agencies I can tell you that Platinum is head and shoulders above the rest and I will firmly recommend you to any one I know who is looking for a job in travel.
Jo Williams

Regional Sales Manager

Platinum Travel Recruitment are not just a recruitment agency, they really care and assist in every way to help you get your dream job. I was satisfied with all the help and support I received from Becky who was my account manager from start to finish. Thank you for locating my dream job, you have changed my life.
Scott Jenkins

Sales Manager

I registered with quite a few agencies and Platinum Travel Recruitment really listened to me and treated me like an individual rather then a number. They are very professional and made an effort for me and kept in touch, this is very much appreciated. Jo helped improve my CV and interview techniques, without her I wouldn’t have landed my dream job. Thank you again,
Beverley Davies

Operations Co-ordinator

Testimonials for Clients

I am happy to recommend the recruitment service offered by Platinum Travel Recruitment. Lakshmi & Charlie have been extremely attentive and efficient throughout our hospitality recruitment process and were knowledgeable and approachable at all times.
Fiona Barnes

HR Manager

I have been impressed time and time again with PTR consultant. Lakshmi is first class. She understood each brief and ensures her recommended candidates match our company ethos and objectives. I’d recommend their services to anyone. Thanks you so much for all your hard work.
Christy Kuplic

Director of Marketing

We have received highly professional and proactive support from Platinum who have understood our requirements completely and introduced a range of appropriate candidates including our new very high grade Business Development Manager.
Geraldine Neame

Business Travel Management Company

Being new to Platinum Travel Recruitment I have been very pleased with the service we have received so far. We have already placed a candidate and have enjoyed quick and efficient service and answers to any questions we may have posed. Lakshmi came to meet us in our offices and it was obvious that she understood our needs and requirements by the calibre of candidates that she sent over. She seems to ‘get’ us.
Daniella Mullins

Manager

Testimonials for Clients

I really enjoy working together with Lakshmi. She is very reliable, effective and adapts quickly to any of our changes and needs. She has a good market knowledge and her service is always very much appreciated.
Sina Kuehnen

Recrutier

Lakshmi is very pleasant to work with. She is very trustworthy and follows up in a quick fashion whenever she is contacted (sometimes even outside of business hours). Her way of working is fully tailored to our needs and she knows how to have maximum impact with limited touch points, making the ROI higher for everyone.
Michael Lynch

Interal Recruiter

Have worked with Lakshmi over the last number of years and have always found her to be quick to respond, professional and able to deliver what our requirements are. The pre-scanning of candidates to ensure the ones that are shortlisted meet the requirements is a vital role the agency provides and this has worked well with Lakshmi.
Nimesh Shah

Director

I have had the pleasure to work with Lakshmi and Platinum Travel Recruitment for a number of years. Their ability to respond quickly and accurately to a brief we present to them for a new role, is first class. They provide high quality candidates that really meet our requirements and we are really happy with their professional approach.
John McEwan

Chairman of a multi sector travel group

Testimonials for Clients

Platinum Travel Recruitment has been a great support and service to our recruitment process. We thank Lakshmi for coordinating with us professionally and providing a strong profile of candidates that we have successfully recruited in our company!
Halima Valli

Wholesale Tour Operator

Platinum Travel Recruitment really do listen to the requirements for each job role we have had and successfully placed numerous travel professionals within our team who have grown within our organisation. Their in depth knowledge of the travel industry and experience has shown in the caliber of applications received by the company which is an important factor for us. Thank you Platinum Travel Recruitment for all your hard work, we are very impressed.
Linda Carmichael,

Africa Specialist Tour operator

Thank you for your support and professionalism throughout our recruitment process. It was carefully executed and this has shown with the successful staff placed with us. Thank you again and keep up the good work.
Matt Jones

Cruise Tour Specialist

With their swift responses, caliber of staff exceeding our expectations and professionalism it’s a recipe for success! Platinum Travel Recruitment genuinely care about their clients and establish our needs. I will continue to use PTR in the future. They provide exceptional service in and out of office hours which is very much appreciated.
Abbie Thomson

Luxury Tour Operator

Testimonials for Candidates

It was great working with Lakshmi. She was friendly, professional and always available for advice. The whole process has been quick and easy. Definitely recommend working with PTR and Lakshmi.
Poorvi Mehta

Product Executive

I would like to say a massive thank you to Hali and the Platinum Travel Team for allowing me to get my first job in the travel industry with an amazing company. Hali was very helpful, professional and responsive. I am very excited to start my new role and would definitely recommend Platinum Travel to anyone looking for a new job in the industry!
Lottie Harrison

Country Specialist

I would like to say a huge thank you to Lakshmi and Platinum Recruitment for helping me to get a fantastic job now as a Business Travel Consultant with a great company. I am very excited and so happy to be starting a new job very soon. The friendly and professional support by emails and Interview tips from Lakshmi was amazing and really helped me to get this new position. I was very impressed with all the support and very high standards of service from Platinum Recruitment to help me get my new job in Travel. I would definitely recommend contacting Lakshmi and Platinum Travel Recruitment to help you find that Important Job.
Bruce Hoare

Senior Business Travel Recruitment

I haven’t stopped celebrating and am very excited to start my new role since Lakshmi gave me the good news. She has been an absolute star right from the beginning to the very end. Thank you so much Lakshmi.
Mary Williams

Entertainment Manager in Business Travel

Testimonials for Clients

I am happy to recommend the recruitment service offered by Platinum Travel Recruitment. Lakshmi & Charlie have been extremely attentive and efficient throughout our hospitality recruitment process and were knowledgeable and approachable at all times.
Fiona Barnes

HR Manager

I have been impressed time and time again with PTR consultant. Lakshmi is first class. She understood each brief and ensures her recommended candidates match our company ethos and objectives. I’d recommend their services to anyone. Thanks you so much for all your hard work.
Christy Kuplic

Director of Marketing

We have received highly professional and proactive support from Platinum who have understood our requirements completely and introduced a range of appropriate candidates including our new very high grade Business Development Manager.
Geraldine Neame

Business Travel Management Company

Being new to Platinum Travel Recruitment I have been very pleased with the service we have received so far. We have already placed a candidate and have enjoyed quick and efficient service and answers to any questions we may have posed. Lakshmi came to meet us in our offices and it was obvious that she understood our needs and requirements by the calibre of candidates that she sent over. She seems to ‘get’ us.
Daniella Mullins

Manager