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Wish You Were Here campaign to return next month wit exclusive offers, new marketing materials and agent incentives

Amadeus to distribute NDC content from BA to agents

Agents will be able to search, compare, book and service NDC content via a single platform as part of a new partnership with BA parent IAG

'There is a real and present need for trusted travel advice'

Travel Counsellors MD Kirsten Hughes reflects on the focus the Covid crisis has placed on agent-client relationships

Agencies in Scotland could reopen in late April

First minister Nicola Sturgeon targeting ’significant reopening’ of Scotland’s economy in the last week of April, including non-essential retail premises

Agents report immediate uptick in positivity and bookings

’We had a busy day on Monday before the government announcement; today, the phone is ringing off the hook!’

EasyJet puts 2022 spring and summer holidays on sale

Airline’s operator division brings forward sale dates following surge in demand following government’s Covid roadmap announcement

'Time to give people the holidays they've been dreaming of'

Cautious optimism follows government’s roadmap announcement, with travel leaders warning of there being a substantial amount more work to be done yet

Travel interest soars following roadmap announcement

Enquiries and bookings have surged after prime minister Boris Johnson laid out the country’s proposed route out of lockdown

Richard Dixon: ‘How are you doing?’

‘We are at the wrong end of the spectrum currently, where the long-term reward of a return to better times has been eroded by promises that have fallen short and a realisation that we still have a fair way to go’

Advantage to steel members for post-Covid booking landscape

‘Gone are the days when agents just helped customers to choose between Greece or Grenada; the service agents provide in the pandemic world is so much more complex’

'Ministers must recognise the power of their statements'

’We need ’travel’s MP’ transport secretary Grant Shapps in our corner,’ says Travel Counsellor Andy La Gette in impassioned open letter to Shapps

Classic Package Holidays adds mid- and long-haul options

Dubai, Mexico and the Caribbean to complement trade-only operator’s short-haul proposition

Abta: 'Give us the principles for restarting travel'

Association’s Save Future Travel coalition sets out key requirements of prime minister Boris Johnson’s 22 February roadmap announcement

'Travel's calls for a roadmap must not fall on deaf ears'

‘No one can give guarantees, but we can work to a roadmap safe in the knowledge that if people book a package, they will be entitled to a refund or to defer’

Malta Tourism Authority appoints new trade lead

Former Cook consultant and product manager Peter Green joins authority as trade trainer

TTNG sets out pandemic impact in tailored support call

Members revenues down 85% between March 2020 and February 2021 compared to the same period in 2019/20

Brits flock to take up temporary residence in Barbados

Welcome Stamp scheme allows people to temporarily relocate to the Caribbean island

Agent planner sales raise £450 for mental health charity

Homeworker Kate Holroyd, owner of Strawberry Holidays, and Mia Walmsley, founder of Footprint Travel in Prestwich, launched Beyond the Bookings in January to help agents stand out from the crowd in 2021 and win back vital business lost during the pandemic.

For every copy purchased, Holroyd and Walmsley donated £1 to mental health charity Mind with their total almost double what the pair had initially hoped to raise.

TTG Tracker: Agents rising to meet domestic travel demand

Lack of clarity on international travel outlook fuels huge spike in domestic demand and staycation bookings

Unions blast govt's mixed messaging on holiday travel

Balpa accuses ministers of ‘shutting down aviation’, while the TSSA said the govt’s actions were ‘sinking the travel trade’

Homeworking

TTG contributing editor Abigail Healy and Gold Medal’s head of commercial relations Clare Weatherall met five of the UK and Ireland’s best homeworking agencies and heard about epic repatriations, battles for refunds and the benefits of sunflower seeds

Designer Travel walks its way to better mental health

Homeworkers on target to walk the equivalent of around the globe in February

Leisure travel 'must be supported with clear testing policy'

Travel sets out key priorities for govt following confirmation of hotel quarantine policy and three-test entry regime

Gary Lewis: ‘We’re fighting to get as many members through this crisis as possible’

‘How many times do we see tears on a Zoom call? It’s probably happening every third day’