Pictured: Simon McLean

City centre based Click Travel has revealed how a heavy reinvestment strategy into new markets and products has led to a bumper year of success for the business.

The travel management company posted an annual turnover of nearly £19m, a boost of just under £9m on the previous year, helping them to make the official list of the industry's top 50 UK players for the third year running.

Simon McLean, entrepreneur and managing director of Click Travel, said: "We've always believed in reinvesting profit into the company, but this year in particular the move has really paid off.

"Our success has allowed us to create 16 new jobs at our Birmingham city centre headquarters so far this year, including the recruitment of a bid manager, taking our total staff number to 50 - a 150% increase since 2008."

Click Travel recently launched takethetrain.co.uk, an online rail ticket website based on its Openrail platform which was developed by the company's in house software team and took two years to create.

"We invested a six figure sum back into developing our new rail technology" continued McLean, "something that has given us a unique edge in our day to day business as well as creating a whole new opportunity for us to enter the consumer rail ticketing market with takethetrain.co.uk.

"We're keen to keep funneling revenue into the business as it allows us to keep to our ethos of innovation" added McLean. 

"At the same time, we can keep creating new jobs, products and services that keep our clients ahead of the rest of the industry, and our company amongst the most respected for technology and software development.

"We've added some real industry heavyweights to our team this year and we're hoping to keep growing our Birmingham team as 2011 progresses."