Seaside Travel branches out
- gracebell7
- 7 hours ago
- 1 min read
Twenty-two years ago Nicola Evans Park opened her first branch of her ‘family’ business, Seaside Travel. Today, the business employs over 80 people, has 13 branches across the North East and North Yorkshire and recently launched a new homeworking division.
Sitting down to chat to Nicola Evans Park, founder of Seaside Travel, at her company’s head office in Wingate, it is immediately clear that what drives her isn’t self adulation or ego, it’s the people who she says have become her family, her ‘Seasiders’ as she affectionately calls them.
The atmosphere is relaxed, and it’s clear to me that no one takes themselves too seriously. Her staff come to work to work but they also enjoy what they do. Their warmth and love of the job is so evident, perhaps because in Nicola they have a boss who values them and is the first to admit that it is them who have enabled Seaside Travel to grow into the £45m turnover company it is today. So, where, and how did it all start?
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