A family of travel brands

The Tollman family in Botswana, Africa. Seated are TTC chairman Stanley Tollman with his wife, Bea (second from left). Surrounding them are family members like Brett (standing, third from right) and Gavin (right), who is the CEO of Trafalgar. Photo: Mike Myers

Running a family business is very much like holding a booklet of matches, which has individual matches joined together. So says The Travel Corporation (TTC) chief executive officer Brett Tollman.

“If you take one matchstick, it’s very easy to break. But, if you take all the matchsticks together, you can’t break them. Likewise, in family and also in business, it is always important to be united and to stand together,” he said in an interview in Kuala Lumpur.