Escorted tours

Riviera Travel unveils £150 Brexit booking boost

Operator offering £150pp ‘loyalty reward’ to encourage repeat river cruise bookings amid the ‘ongoing uncertainty around Brexit’

Top special interest tours

Whether they want to refine their brush strokes, take sun salutations or get snap happy on holiday, it pays to take note of your clients’ special interests, says Abra Dunsby.

APT grows trade team with new BDM appointment

Chris So Woon Yuen will support agents in the operator’s central region

Saga appoints two new directors to meet 'ambitious' growth plans

Elanor Sahadow appointed director of commercial; Rob Goodwin joins as director of product and purchasing

Saga clients becoming more ‘adventurous’

Over-50s specialist is seeing more interest in “unusual” destinations

Discovering the green side of the Caribbean

From hiking across Dominica to touring Jamaica’s Blue Mountains, the Caribbean offers an abundance of reasons to send your clients inland

Kathryn Coles joins Simpson Travel

Tauck’s former UK country manager becomes head of trade sales at the luxury operator

Rail Discoveries recruits Julie Walters for first TV campaign

The promotion will showcase some of the escorted rail holidays specialist’s best-selling itineraries

Wendy Wu to operate solar eclipse tour

Special trip to South America to see eclipse in July 2019

Saga unveils prizes in ‘biggest’ trade incentive

Tickets to see Spice Girls among the 80 prizes on offer to agents

Kenward to leave Aito after 10 years

Executive director will leave association in March 2019

Riviera appoints Tom Morgan to lead trade sales team

He takes over from Joseph Grimley who left the company earlier this year

Awesome Uluru: Exploring one of the world's greatest landmarks

From ancient art to walks with a local, a trip through Australia’s Red Centre with Intrepid Travel leaves Chloe Cann in awe

Kathryn Coles to leave Tauck

She became the escorted tour and river cruise specialist’s UK country manager in March

Collette to mark centenary by recreating original Jack Collette tour

In 1918, Collette chartered a bus and drove a group of 14 travellers from Boston to Florida for a sunny escape

Cook customer hits out over 'heartbreaking' Lapland trip

Family’s ’once-in-a-lifetime’ holiday ruined by lack of snow

APT boosts sales team with two new appointments

Denise Rice joins as business development manager for south east England and Bianca Venn as inside sales executive

Operators forced to pull Lapland departures due to lack of snow

Operators, including Inghams and Transun, said unseasonably warm weather has washed away snow in resort

Aito Conf 18: New members hail networking benefits and quality agent access

Aito announced 12 new members shortly before its 2018 overseas confidence - TTG caught up with four of them to find out why they signed up

Exodus Travels pledges to support disadvantaged youth with new brochures

Bosnian artist Martina Crepulja has pledged a third of her fee to Exodus’ Inspiration Project, which aims to show young people the wonders of their own countries

How Culinary Backstreets is shining a light on off the beaten track dining experiences

From Istanbul to Tbilisi, Culinary Backstreets takes clients to lesser-trodden areas of a city through its gastronomic tours

WTM 2018: Tui to launch new solo options for UK and Germany

Dave Burling, Tui Group’s chief executive markets and airlines said the travel giant would take inspiration from its other European businesses

Contiki appoints James Marchant global chief executive

Marchant will relocate from London to Contiki’s Geneva HQ

Balkan Holidays’ regional sales manager Jason Kemp to join Saga

Kemp will be responsible for Saga’s trade relations in Scotland and Northern Ireland