Escorted tours

ITC appoints Cheryl Elliott-Edwards to newly-created trade team role

Elliott-Edwards joins group from Emirates, bringing more than 25 years’ industry experience to the role

Newmarket Holidays hands trade lead Richard Forde expanded role

Head of trade sales Forde to take on partnerships brief in addition to managing trade team of seven

Wendy Wu Tours thanks agents for 'tireless support' after best-ever month

The Asia specialist paid tribute to agents after breaking its monthly sales record

TTC Tour Brands recruiting for three sales team roles

Group on the look-out for a homeworker-focused sales manager and two new area sales managers, including its first dedicated solely to agents in Scotland and Northern Ireland, under new director of sales Kelly Walker

Pioneering tour operator and Aito co-founder Colin Murison Small dies aged 93

Following the collapse of Court Line Holidays in 1975, Murison Small decided to gather smaller tour operators to discuss how they could pay the huge bond bill

Joseph Grimley returns to travel with Fred Holidays as BDM

Former Scenic Group sales director to Riviera’s Paul Mellon at Fred Holidays, which has doubled the size of its trade team

Intrepid smashes UK and Ireland sales record twice in a week

Adventure specialist breaks sales record on 30 January and again on 31 January, and reports a 30% hike in industry revenue compared with January 2023

Newmarket Holidays hires TTC's Freya Sutcliffe to grow north-west presence

Freya Sutcliffe brings more than 20 years’ industry experience to her role at the escorted touring specialist Newmarket Holidays

Byron Davis joins Wendy Wu Tours as new southern BDM

Davis joins the Asia specialist from South African Tourism, where he was the tourist board’s trade training specialist

Jason Kemp to join G Touring as key account manager for Scotland and the north

Kemp will take up his new role with Travelsphere and Just You parent G Touring in March, bringing more than 25 years’ travel industry experience

Fred Holidays hires Riviera Travel's Paul Mellon as new BDM

Paul Mellon joins Fred Holidays as business development manager having previously held roles at Riviera Travel, Wendy Wu Tours, The Holiday Team, Funway Holidays and Western & Oriental.

Riviera Travel to host 100 agents on fam trips this year

Escorted touring and river cruise specialist will host 60% more agents on fams than it did last year

‘We don't send our guests to war zones – but we can give partners there hope’

‘Regent has over the years pioneered travel to lesser-trodden paths around the world – and despite the complex situation in places like Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, we will never abandon our partners on the ground’

Riviera Travel reveals second key account manager hire in a week

Chris McCloskey follows Lloyd Morris to Riviera, and will link up with the river cruise and escorted touring specialist as its new key account manager for Scotland and Ireland next week

'Most' Hotelplan brands' systems restored following cyberattack

The brands, owned by Hotelplan UK, were hit by IT disruption in early December

Why some of travel's biggest brands are turning – or returning – to the trade

TTG caught up with a handful of major brands that are either starting to work with agents again, or work with the trade for the first time. Gary Noakes reports

Riviera to give away £1 million in gifts to celebrate 40th anniversary

The river cruise and escorted touring specialist is guaranteeing rewards on every booking made between 20 December and 9 February

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.

Riviera Travel to boost trade team with new key account managers

Escorted touring and river cruise specialist to expand on-the-road staff to grow sales through agents

Regent Holidays retains Israel and Palestine trips for 2024

Specialist will continue offering Middle Eastern destinations despite Israel-Hamas conflict

TV's Amar Latif's tour operator launches new multi-sensory holiday programme

HF Holidays announced a partnership with blind TV personality and adventurer Amar Latif OBE in October ahead of the programme’s launch

TTC Tour Brands ditches branded freebies in sustainability push

The Travel Corporation axes branded giveaways for its touring subsidiaries on environmental grounds, pledging a total ban

Q&A: Phil Shipman, Cosmos Tours and Globus Journeys

TTG catches up with sales director Shipman, who joined the escorted touring specialists in September and is responsible for both brands’ trade relations

Halsbury Travel Group acquires venerable Scottish school tour operator

IBT founder Iain Black said he was “delighted” about the deal