Europe

Silversea’s Silver Endeavour returns to the UK for 2025 season

The luxury mega ship is back in Portsmouth to begin its next season of sailings

Classic Collection adds Luxor, Tangier and Tromso plus more than 600 new hotels

Operator expands online booking portfolio available to agents with new destinations and more hotels in Agadir, Sicily, Malaga, Montenegro and Bulgaria

Fam trip boosts agency's Lapland sales – and inspires agent to lead her own trip

The homeworker who returned from a three-night fam trip to Lapland – and decided to lead her own group tour

Corendon Airlines eyes Egypt and senses opportunities in UK regions

Six months into his role at the Turkish carrier’s UK country manager, Matthew Carpenter sets out his vision for growing into the UK market – in partnership with travel agents

Feel the force: how the retreats market is going from strength to strength

Retreats are becoming a more popular part of the ever expanding wellness sector and advisors should become a bigger part of the sector

Easter strike by Tenerife hotel workers prompts Foreign Office warning

Hotel and hospitality workers in Santa Cruz province start two-day walkout

Greece reveals latest sustainable tourism initiatives amidst return as TTG’s Destination Partner

As the Greek National Tourism Organisation enters its third year as the TTG Sustainable Travel Heroes Destination Partner, its UK and Ireland director Eleni Skarveli has revealed the recent steps the country has taken to promote responsible tourism.

Lanzarote floods put squeeze on Easter breaks; latest from Tui and Jet2

Tui cancels ’small number’ of holidays, while Jet2 warns several hotels have closed to arrivals

Taking a ride on La Dolce Vita Orient Express – Italy’s newest luxury train

Dozens of candles flicker along the dark corridor of the 16th-century palazzo as guests alight from gleamingly varnished launches and enter Venice’s largest private garden, with champagne in hand.

Lanzarote floods: Storm Oliver downpour prompts Foreign Office warning

Hotels left without power and roads blocked after some areas experienced 6cm rainfall in a matter of hours

'Olympic Holidays is seen as an old-style operator – we need to change this perception with agents'

New managing director Reeva Kingston talks TTG’s Ilaria Grasso Macola through her plans for the brand and why agents will be key to its growth

Agent seals bumper wedding booking following TTG Top 50 Champions trip

La Vida Travel owner Karen Marin Reyes made the booking following the trip to Malta last year – a country she had never visited before

Crystal Ski guests among hundreds evacuated from La Plagne hotel blaze

More than 400 guests, most of them British, were evacuated from a hotel used by Crystal Ski in the French resort of La Plagne following a blaze early on Wednesday

Italy's national rail firm launches €1 billion bid to challenge Eurostar

Avanti West Coast co-owner FS Italiane Group has partnered with Spanish start-up Evolyn with a view to launching high-speed rail services between London and Paris from 2029

MSC trade chief predicts World America 'halo effect' amid huge demand for US departures

Alyshia Bartlett, MSC’s head of retail, homeworking and tour operations, confirmed her ’main priority’ is filling MSC Virtuosa this summer

Pre-Easter strike action threatens travel to Greece and Italy this week

Greek air traffic controllers will join a 24-hour walkout by public sector employees on Wednesday, while easyJet flight attendants in Italy are also poised to strike on Wednesday

SunExpress adds new Turkish Riviera routes from Glasgow and Liverpool

Lufthansa-Turkish Airlines join venture will operate four weekly flights to Antalya and two to Dalaman from Glasgow airport this summer, as well as three-times-weekly Liverpool-Antalya flights

Agent lands ‘last-minute’ £110,000 French villa booking with string quartet and open-air cinema

A top agent secured a six-figure booking for a French rental villa – with just less than a month’s notice to plan.

In partnership with onefinestay, the luxury travel advisor worked diligently to organise a family holiday for seven nights with a strict set of criteria.

Competition on cross-Channel rail routes moves a step closer

The rail regulator has said there is room for new entrants to use Eurostar’s maintenance facility, removing an impediment for more operators on cross-Channel routes

'We're well on our way': easyJet holidays chief spells out market leadership ambition

Garry Wilson has said it would easily possible for it to become market leader in packages using its parent company’s soon-to-be 100 million seats

EasyJet holidays credits agents for new Southend base's early success

EasyJet says its new Southend base has sold more package holidays as a percentage of sales than any other base and thanks local agents

Raffles Hotels & Resorts to make Italy debut with renovated 1920s property

The Accor brand has announced its Italy expansion after the recent confirmation of Raffles Tokyo and Raffles Raffles Goa Shiroda.

New Channel Tunnel train operator hopes to challenge Eurostar

A new train operator has been set up with hopes of launching services to Paris and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel

Norwegian Cruise Line's new ship 'a perfected version of other Prima vessels'

UK and Irish agents joined Norwegian Aqua’s maiden voyage from a stormy Lisbon at the weekend and learned how Norwegian Cruise Line has ’perfected’ its Prima class