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APT to expand trade sales team amid ongoing company-wide recruitment drive
The APT and Travelmarvel brands plan to hire a national sales manager to support its key accounts
How to send your clients on a Silk Road adventure
Uzbekistan has a captivating touristic arsenal of ancient architecture and authentic cultural experiences – we explore this up-and-coming Central Asian destination.
Tui launches weekly Birmingham-Singapore charter service this winter
Flights will operate until 3 April before stopping for a few months and resuming on 11 December 2024
China Southern boosts London-China connectivity with new Gatwick service
China Southern joins Air China and China Eastern at Gatwick
FCDO warns against all travel to parts of Indonesia following volcanic eruptions
Marapi spewed a 3km ash cloud into the air, blanketing surrounding villages in ash, just over a week ago
Advantage boss confident current strong booking levels 'to continue into 2024'
Bookings departing between 18 and 28 December are up 44% year-on-year, according to Advantage’s chief executive Julia Lo Bue-Said
The Sri Lanka adventure that opened agents' eyes to the benefits of touring
Madeleine Barber joined TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors and G Touring in Sri Lanka to learn how the operator delivers richer experiences for travellers and helps care for the people and places they visit
Watch: Why an enriching tour is the best way to see Sri Lanka
TTG teamed up with G Touring (Just You and Travelsphere) to take agents on a sustainability-focused fam trip and help them discover Sri Lanka in a way that benefits people and the planet – and promises richer experiences.
Brits ready to take multiple holidays next year and up their spend
Nearly six in 10 Brits will look to book at least three holidays next year, according to Luxury Escapes, with popular extravagances including flight and room upgrades, and fine dining
The travel trends and buzzwords agents can't afford to ignore next year
Who are Generation T? What’s the deal with ’shoulder shoppers’? And how do you court ’sustainability selectors’? Abta sought to demystify a number of emerging markets at its Travel Trends conference this week – here’s what agents need to know
UK excluded from China's visa-free travel trial
Year-long trial will be open to citizens from six countries planning to visit the destination over the next 12 months
Manchester's Beijing service to become daily next summer
Hainan Airlines to increase its current four-times-weekly route between Manchester and China’s capital to daily from June 2024
Wendy Wu: 'Staying in business for 25 years is nothing – we could go on for 100!'
As Wendy Wu Tours marks its quarter-century, its eponymous founder talks TTG through its remarkable story
Vietnam Airlines restores daily non-stop flights from Heathrow
The flag carrier will operate four weekly flights to Hanoi as well as three per week to Ho Chi Minh City
Edition Hotels expands into south-east Asia with Singapore opening
The Singapore Edition offers 204 rooms just off the city-state’s famed Orchard Road
Wendy Wu Tours to fund scholarship programme in Cambodia
The Asia specialist will underwrite the programme for 25 underprivileged children in Siem Reap
Wendy Wu Tours secures extra Japanese cherry blossom departures
Four additional tours for the ’sold out’ cherry blossom season will depart in March next year
Sri Lanka's Sun Siyam Pasikudah poised to reopen after $1.5m 'transformation'
Sun Siyam Resorts hopes the reopening of Sun Siyam Pasikudah later this month will give Sri Lanka’s east coast a boost
Seychelles looks to distinguish its offering by grading guesthouses
The Seychelles Ministry of Tourism plans to start grading smaller guesthouses as part of its strategy to differentiate the destination from its Indian Ocean counterparts
Sarawak sets sights on 30,000 UK visitors for 2024
Sarawak is hopeful of hiking UK visitor numbers by as much as a fifth next year. The Malaysian state said UK visitors in the year to September had increased to 18,883, up from 5,944 last year
If Only reveals 'sexy' peaks plans and fam trip winners
The luxury tour operator ran a joint competition with Saadiyat Island in which agents could win fam trip places
Almost a third of Brits set to travel more in 2024
The findings were unveiled in the 2023/24 Skyscanner Horizons report
Stansted gains first of several new budget Turkey flights
SunExpress poised to launch flights to Izmir, with routes to Antalya, Adana and Gaziantep planned for summer 2024
Jet2holidays to launch packages to two new Turkish resorts next summer
Chief executive Steve Heapy said the decision came off the back of ‘strong demand’ for holidays to Turkey