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Gold Medal puts more trade support behind 'booming' European programme

Room nights booked in Europe have more than doubled this year, with average booking values up 15%

Hurricane Gabrielle bears down on Azores prompting Foreign Office travel alert

Atlantic storm neared the Portuguese archipelago on Thursday and is expected to bring 'tropical storm conditions'

Long-time Hays Travel agent given honour of reopening her revamped shop

Lynn Robinson has been working in the same South Yorkshire agency for nearly four decades

Virgin Voyages shakes up fare model promising passengers more 'flexibility and transparency'

The new VoyageFair Choices model includes three fare types – the Base fare, the Essential fare and the Premium fare

Jet2 to offer three new destinations in Greece and Italy next summer

The Olympus Riviera, Meganisi and Sicily's Palermo to join airline and operator's portfolio for summer 2026

Former Classic Collection owner Nick Munday reflects on brand's "very sad" closure

Nick Munday was owner and managing director of the long-established Classic Collection before On the Beach’s chief international officer Oliver Garner took over the reins in September 2019

TravCorp offers to fulfil Classic Collection's Junior Hotel Inspector trips

'These trips captured imaginations across the trade – we don't want those families let down," said TravCorp chief Andy Freeth

'It's more than just print and paper': introducing a new chapter for TTG

In a world where media is changing as fast as the travel industry, it’s time to turn a whole new page on TTG Media

Travel Industry Awards winners crowned as TTG rocks The Roundhouse

Intrepid Travel and Tui among the big winners on the night as Dame Irene Hays named Travel Legend

CAA hints it could compel airlines to disclose stats on transporting mobility aids

CAA seeks industry's views on whether airlines should have to disclose details about their handling of people's mobility aids

Oceania Cruises 'happy with bookings so far' after unveiling winter Med programme

Allura – the sister ship to Vista – will reposition from Miami to Barcelona on 31 March 2027 before its extended season in the Med that runs into spring 2028

‘They’ve decimated a once-great brand’: agents slam closure of Classic Collection after nearly 40 years

On the Beach on Wednesday confirmed it would wind down its B2B operation to focus solely on B2C

On the Beach to shut Classic Collection putting 26 jobs at risk

The OTA acquired Classic for £20 million back in August 2018 but will now begin 'an orderly wind down' of the brand

The great grandparent exodus: is a rise in summer childcare duties driving a new peak travel period?

Agents confirm September and October becoming increasingly popular months for travel for people aged 45 and above

HX chief commercial officer Alex Delamere-White to follow chief financial officer out the door following restructure

Delamere-White joined HX Hurtigruten Expeditions in July 2023 and went onto 'spearhead' the brand's journey to becoming a standalone brand and separating from its sister company Hurtigruten

CLS Travel finally opens its doors – and attracts literal coachload of well-wishers

Homeworker turned high street agent Clare Stege welcomed some unexpected guests to the opening of her first shop

'Fantastic friend', cat lover and Steven Seagal admirer: travel remembers Yorkshire Travel Trade Ball founder Sandy Murray

Sandy's Travel Escapes owner Sandy Murray died peacefully on Saturday (20 September) after a period of ill health

Hays Travel's new Burnley branch brings store manager full circle after 27 years

Natalie Lowcock returns to the Lancashire town where she started her career in travel 27 years ago with Going Places

Tui to open new properties in Turkey, Sardinia and Spain in time for summer 2026

Plans include two new hotels in Turkey, including a fourth with joint venture partner Akra Hotels, and a refurbished hotel in Spain

'There was a real buzz': Customers and suppliers flock to support Halstead Travel as agency opens first high street shop

Halstead Travel owner Arline Sloan has ambitions to open more shops in the future after her first in Coggeshall, Essex

Heathrow among European airports still recovering from weekend cyber attack

LHR, Brussels, Frankfurt and other major European airports hit by attack on supplier Collins Aerospace's systems

Gatwick opponents pledge court challenge as second runway is approved

It comes after government gave Gatwick's plans to bring its second runway into regular use the green light subject to noise pollution measures

Tour operator jailed for £50,000 Covid bounce back loan fraud

Raja Imtiaz secured a second bounce back loan for his business despite only being entitled to one

Royal Caribbean's Legend of the Seas to launch earlier and offer more sailings

Each of the additional cruises will depart from Civitavecchia, Italy, on 11, 18 and 25 July before the ship moves to Barcelona