Contents
- 1 Your Stories: Switching to homeworking after 23 years on the high street
- 2 Celebrity Cruises visits 100 agents to ‘surprise and delight’ top sellers
- 3 Agent Diary: Dealings with some suppliers put us at risk of losing customers
- 4 Classic Collection launches concierge service
- 5 Virgin Atlantic expands codeshare with Indian carrier
- 6 Comment: Agents and agencies deserve the greatest recognition
- 7 Abta accuses CAA of ‘lack of clarity’ on Atol reform
- 8 Clia launches funding scheme to boost new-to-river cruise sales
- 9 Oceania Cruises reveals entertainment offering on Vista
- 10 CV Villas offers £50 summer Corfu flights to help cost of living crisis
- 11 Riviera Travel offers extended land tour itineraries on 2024 river cruises
- 12 Easter weekend flight capacity 12% down on pre-Covid levels
- 13 Air China returns to Gatwick after three years
- 14 Just Go! offers agents April river cruise booking incentive
- 15 Jet2 marks 15 years of serving Cyprus
- 16 Los Angeles tourism chief predicts record visits from UK in 2024
- 17 Industry leaders confirmed as International Women in Travel Forum speakers
- 18 Not Just Travel has ‘big growth ambitions’ says new commercial director
- 19 Cost-of-living concerns impacting domestic Easter holidays
- 20 Holiday sales could see even bigger hike next year, Aito survey predicts
- 21 Interview: Brand USA marketing chief Staci Mellman
- 22 Airports stress cabin baggage rules to avert delays over Easter
- 23 On the Beach appoints new finance chief in succession plan
- 24 Advantage agents expect Easter sales to ‘significantly’ outperform 2019
- 25 Emirates activates United Airlines codeshare
- 26 Holland America Line schedules longer Caribbean cruises
- 27 Heathrow security guards walk out as 11th hour pay talks break down
- 28 Aviation boss calls for swift action to back SAF industry in UK
- 29 Aito members pay personal tributes to late Derek Moore
- 30 Henbury Travel boss tells BBC TV viewers of ‘incredible demand’
- 31 Travel editor and top economist to speak at Advantage conference
- 32 AI could give travel specialists ‘competitive advantage’
- 33 Latin Routes adds Panama and plans more new destinations
- 34 Special Report: How you can play your part to help industry fight fraud
- 35 Air Canada resumes and extends Edinburgh-Toronto service
- 36 British Airways starts new service to Guyana
- 37 New Tui accessibility guides to help customers plan overseas trips
- 38 Roger Federer stars in Switzerland Tourism campaign
- 39 New Deal Europe hails success of ‘biggest-ever’ forum
- 40 Seven agents join Portugal fam after attending Atas conference
- 41 Silversea launches two new extended sailings for 2024
- 42 Mercury Holidays launches escorted tours library for agents
- 43 Government highlights ten areas to avoid repeat of last summer’s airport ‘misery’
- 44 Los Angeles film attractions – from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to Universal Studios Hollywood
- 45 Hollywood film attractions – from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures to Universal Studios
- 46 Exploring the Balkans: Mountains, beaches and history
- 47 Top 5 new theme park attractions
- 48 Emerald Cruises launches culinary-themed voyages with celebrity chef
- 49 Retiring Jamaica tourism veteran hails travel agency network
- 50 Hays Travel shops to shut for King Charles coronation
Your Stories: Switching to homeworking after 23 years on the high street
Travel Counsellors agent Martin Kindred-Langdon says he can’t believe how quickly his business is growingQ. How did you start in travel?A. I studied for a GNVQ ...
Celebrity Cruises’ sales team has visited the top 100 best-selling agents to “surprise and delight” them as part of the firm’s biggest ever wave campaign.The ...
Not Just Travel homeworker David Walker calls for improvements on service levels and timeframesThere has been much talk of late regarding the working ...
Classic Collection will introduce a concierge service from May 1, as part of a series of service enhancements for clients on their holidays.Called Classic ...
Virgin Atlantic has expanded its codeshare with IndiGo, opening up an extra 18 destinations throughout India.Customers can book one ticket which allows them to ...
Make sure your agency superstars and your businesses are in the running for the Agent Achievement Awards, says Travel Weekly’s Lucy HuxleyI certainly don’t ...
Abta has accused the CAA of a “lack of clarity” in its rationale for Atol reform and proposal for a variable Atol Protection Contribution (APC) and insisted a ...
Clia has launched a funding initiative designed to help agents attract new-to-river-cruise customers.Agents can apply for up to £1,000 from the Clia RiverBank ...
Oceania Cruises has revealed details of the entertainment offering on board its new Allura-class ship Vista.The 1,200-passenger vessel, scheduled to enter ...
Corfu flights from £50 are being offered by CV Villas for travel between May and July as the operator moves to offset cost of living costs.The deal is ...
Riviera Travel is offering four river cruises with extended land tour itineraries for 2024.The itineraries were introduced last year and have been ...
Almost 7.8 million seats across 44,078 flights are scheduled from UK airports over the two-week Easter school holidays, new data reveals.The Easter weekend ...
Flights to Beijing are being resumed by Air China from Gatwick after a three-year hiatus due to the pandemic.The Chinese flag-carrier will operate four flights ...
Agents have the chance to earn £50 Love2Shop vouchers when making an A-Rosa river cruise booking with Just Go! Holidays.The first 20 agents to book between ...
Jet2 marks 15 years of flying to Cyprus tomorrow (Saturday).The first flight landed in Paphos from Leeds Bradford airport in 2008.Jet2 and Jet2holidays now has ...
The chief executive of Los Angeles Tourism says he is “pretty bullish” about the UK market outstripping record pre-pandemic levels in 2024, following a strong ...
Advantage chief Julia Lo Bue-Said and Intrepid EMEA boss Zina Bencheikh are among speakers confirmed for the 2023 International Women in Travel Forum ...
Homeworking agency Not Just Travel has ‘big growth ambitions’ for the next few years, says its new commercial director, Chris Harrison.The ex-Dawson & ...
As many as 6.5 million people plan a domestic break over the Easter weekend but many are leaving it until the last minute to book amid cost of living ...
Next year could witness an even more marked improvement on pre-pandemic holiday sales than 2023, specialist travel companies have been told.A large-scale ...
The organisation’s senior vice-president of integrated marketing talks to Robin Searle about her confidence in the UK market and the importance of the tradeThe ...
Airlines and airports hope to avoid delays this Easter despite the threat of strikes, but are urging passengers to arrive on time and have cabin bags ready ...
On the Beach has appointed a new finance chief to enable current post holder Shaun Morton to step up to succeed Simon Cooper as chief ...
The Advantage Travel Partnership reports that its agents expect sales for the Easter break to “significantly” outperform 2019 as consumers continue to defy the ...
A transatlantic codeshare between Emirates and United Airlines has been activated to offer improved access to the US domestic market.The pact will enable ...
Longer cruises in the Caribbean have been scheduled by Holland America Line for winter 2024-25, including the return of calls to Bermuda.Boston joins Fort ...
Hopes that Easter disruption at Heathrow could be avoided have been dashed after 11th hour talks to prevent a strike by security staff broke down.The Unite ...
A leading aviation body has called for swift government action to ensure “tens of thousands of jobs and huge export potential from a homegrown SAF ...
Aito members have paid their own personal tributes to the late Derek Moore.Tour operators at the association’s annual general meeting shared fond memories ...
The boss of Henbury Travel featured on BBC Breakfast this morning (March 30) as part of a report on how the industry is gearing up for a busy Easter ...
The Advantage Travel Partnership has announced two further keynote speakers for its forthcoming conference in Benidorm, as well as the themes for the ...
Artificial intelligence could be a powerful tool to provide specialist tour operators and travel agents with a competitive advantage, Aito members have been ...
Latin Routes has introduced Panama to its portfolio amid plans to expand further in Central America later this year.Panama is the operator’s first new ...
Reporting fraudsters not only way to combat problem, says Profit chairman Barry GoochFor the travel industry to effectively crack down on fraud, there needs to ...
Air Canada will resume and extend its direct service between Edinburgh and Toronto from June 2.The airline will operate daily flights until the end of ...
Guyana has become the latest destination to join British Airways’ network, with an inaugural flight touching down in the destination’s capital, Georgetown, on ...
Tui UK has partnered with AccessAble, an accessibility information provider, to create overseas holiday planning guides for customers with access ...
Roger Federer is starring in a new short film advertising Switzerland Tourism.The tennis champion, a global brand ambassador for the Swiss tourism ...
The co-founder of New Deal Europe (NDE) has hailed the success of the marketing body’s “biggest-ever” annual marketplace and forum.Tine Murn told Travel ...
Seven travel agents who attended the Association of Touring and Adventure Suppliers conference last year have returned from a fam trip to central Portugal.They ...
