

The Select Travel Group (STG) provides members with access to preferred product agreements that have been negotiated with Select partners by the Orient Express Travel Group®.
The Select Travel Group (STG) currently has in excess of 300 Chinatown travel agencies as members - in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth - who benefit from membership to the group. Select preferred partners are from various airlines, travel wholesalers, financial institutions and insurance companies.
The main objectives of the STG is that of assisting both the agencies and the partners to achieve increases in their sales and profits; enhance their professionalism and maintain customer service levels of the highest standards; utilise a single, focused and relevant marketing distribution system and achieve incentive targets and increased productivity.
Launched in July 2006, 1ndependence® assists travel agencies to grow their business and increase their profits by utilising a single, focused and relevant marketing distribution system to achieve incentive targets and increase productivity.
The 1ndependence brand, has been established by the Orient Express Travel Group® (OETG), through its Express Ticketing® and Express Fares™ divisions, to enable independent travel agents and professionals, to benefit by accessing an existing preferred national distribution platform.
There is considerable potential and empowerment in being an 1ndependence® local partner. This is enabled through the ability to choose some or all of the services and benefits that the OETG national buying group provides.


