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AAT Kings recruits new UK sales manager to lead trade push
Joanna Guest joins Australia and New Zealand specialist
TTG Travel Awards launches new responsible travel category
Companies who’ve made strides in responsible tourism in the last year are encouraged to enter
Wendy Wu joins latest TTG Trips of the Trade podcast
Founder of Wendy Wu Tours takes us on a trip down memory lane exploring her earliest travel experiences
TTG New to Touring and Adventure Festival highlights
Travel agents joined TTG Media at the Concorde Conference Centre at Manchester airport earlier this week to learn more about the touring and adventure sector, make key contacts and sharpen their selling skills in the process.
Top tips for touring and adventure sales success
A pair of leading agents gave their advice at TTG’s New to Touring and Adventure Festival
Top 10 Inghams tours for 2019 and 2020
If you’re seeking a tour operator you can trust to deliver unforgettable holidays at great value for your customers, take a look at what Inghams is offering in the next couple of years
'Adventure is knocking': Cosmos debuts new look and brand vision
Escorted touring specialist working on new sales toolkit and materials for agents
APT triples Sri Lanka departures for 2020/21
Operator’s pledge comes as country recovers from fatal Easter Sunday bombings
Shearings Holidays adds 19 new tours to 2020 Worldwide programme
Escorted touring specialist is expanding global programme
D-Day: Travel firms unite to help veterans mark 75th anniversary
Arena Travel has chartered Fred Olsen’s Boudicca to take 300 veterans to France
Saga Holidays MD Maria Whiteman to depart
She joined the over-50s specialist in 2016
Campbell: 'The solo travel market will continue to expand – it's not just for singles'
Solo travel is a growing sector, with more travellers unwilling to forsake their holiday ambitions for lack of a companion, while some are simply leaving their partner or friends at home. TTG talks to G Touring’s Alastair Campbell
Safer Tourism Foundation issues first operator accreditation
The charity is aiming to make good health and safety practice “as recognisable as an Atol stamp” to consumers
Inghams teases summer 2020 programme with new 'preview' magazine
Summer Moments will feature exclusive early booking offers with price parity for the trade, head of agency sales Julie Franklin confirmed
G Adventures unveils new target for community projects
Tour operator plans to add 25 extra tourism initiatives by next year
On The Go Tours appoints new CFO
Former Scott Dunn financial officer joins tour operator
Emirates Holidays boss appointed Newmarket Holidays chief
Newmarket has confirmed Niel Alobaidi will take up the role of chief executive in September
Travelsphere’s Glen Thomas appointed Wendy Wu Tours group sales chief
Thomas to take on newly created head of group sales and partnerships role at Far East specialist operator
Sales chief Froggatt set to leave Travelopia
Tour operator group makes changes to its executive leadership team
G Adventures and National Geographic launch Family Journeys partnership
New programme features 12 trips, with departures starting March 2020, and follows the launch of the partners’ Journeys programme in 2015
Saga boosts travel division with two new hires
Michael Fleetwood joins as product and purchasing manager, while Emma-Jane Browning takes on senior destination services manager role, together bringing more than 35 years’ travel experience
Holidays where clients can learn a skill
As the latest research shows clients are becoming increasingly drawn to holidays where they can learn something, Abra Dunsby rounds up trips that allow travellers to acquire a new skill.
Solos Holidays to step up trade focus following private equity acquisition
Chief executive of new owner Stone Adventures Stewart Baird told TTG while Solos already works with the trade, “part of the plan is to grow that”
Canadian Affair triples trade team with two new sales executives
Helen Tate and Stephanie Robertson bring nearly 50 years’ experience to the Canada specialist