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Agents will be hoping for a peaks that will reignite flagging travel sales (Credit: Aliko Sunawang / Unsplash)
'The prospect of a holiday has never been more appealing'
’With so much in the news to feel horrified by or angry about, there are still reasons to be optimistic for 2022,’ writes TTG editor Sophie Griffiths
The UK is bracing for a cost-of-living crisis, including rising energy bills (Credit: iStock)
Boiling point: Rising cost of living adds fuel to fire
Despite travel making inroads to recovery, factors – including increasing bills, record inflation and the war in Ukraine – may yet dampen UK consumers’ appetite for travel
Norad Travel Group has been acquired by Israeli firm Talma
Israeli firm acquires Howard Travel and Erne Travel parent
Talma Shlomo Travel Solutions Summit Advisory snaps up TMC Norad Travel Group, owner of leisure agencies Howard Travel in Trowbridge and Erne Travel in Enniskillen
The Northwich team (L-R): Linda Capper, Sean Buckley, Bev Willis, Sarah Perry and Marie Ferriday
Barrhead to open new Northwich store next month
The store, Barrhead’s 87th and some two-and-a-half years in the making, will be situated in the town’s Barons Quay shopping centre
Peat joins from Celebrity Cruises, and has previously held roles with Viking, Thomas Cook and Princess
Celebrity's Jonny Peat to join Advantage Travel Partnership
Peat to take up commercial manager – cruise role with the consortium next month
The new store in the city centre will be managed by Chris Winpenny-Cushine
Kuoni to open new Aberdeen store next month
Tailor-made specialist to open first new store for two years on 8 April – and is on the lookout for locations for more
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Hays reports increase in long-haul bookings and average customer spend
Chief operating officer Jonathon Woodall-Johnston said the independent agency has seen an increase in its average selling price
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Jet2holidays to launch new online agent training portal
Jet2holidays Learn will be available from 1 April
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New TTG Top 50 honoured as event returns to Birmingham
The seventh annual ceremony took place after two years of virtual events, with Worcester’s ArrangeMY Escape named the UK and Ireland’s Top Agency for 2022
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Celebs and football stars to help remember Chloe and Liam
Trust set up in honour of Westoe Travel apprentice Chloe Rutherford and partner Liam Curry hopeful of charity football match windfall next month
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MSC Cruises reshuffles sales team following Stafford departure
Alyshia Jay Bartlett to take over from Scenic Group-bound Andrea Stafford, with move sparking three other internal promotions at MSC
Andrea Stafford has been appointed Scenic Group director of trade sales
MSC's Andrea Stafford joins Scenic Group as trade sales lead
Group makes five new appointments to UK trade sales team, led by Stafford’s arrival from MSC Cruises
Ponders Travel has urged customers to donate 'basics for Ukrainian refugees on the Ukraine-Poland border'
Not Just Travel to pay staff for homing Ukrainian refugees
Homeworking company is also granting its 40 employees paid leave to help with voluntary work, either locally or nationally
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‘Help your local agency’, consumers urged as restrictions lift
Travel the Globe urges consumers to use their local agency to lift businesses following the pandemic
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Travel Journal expansion brings agent ‘full circle’
Ben Poole has relocated his Travel Journal business to the former premises of the agency he used to manage
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Hays Travel charters flight to Barbados for P&O cruise clients
Staff were on hand at Newcastle Airport to help passengers navigate the check-in process ahead of a two-week cruise with P&O in the Caribbean
Celebrity's Claire Stirrup and Jo Rzymowska welcomed agents to the event on Tuesday
Celebrity awards return honouring trade's ‘hard work and commitment’
The event, held at The Londoner Hotel in Leicester Square on Tuesday (15 March), welcomed around 60 of the line’s top partners
Bell said the government "needs to step in now" to protect "viable businesses and jobs across the sector"
'This is a watershed moment for the travel industry'
Abta, Advantage, SPAA and WTTC all hail government plans to end of testing and passenger locator forms from 4am on Friday (18 March)
In France, antigen tests cost £25 and PCRs are £42, while in Spain, on average, antigen tests costs £35 and PCRs £85
End of travel curbs marks 'real beginning of recovery'
Industry hails government’s plans to end all Covid-era travel restrictions from 4am Friday (18 March)
Cautious optimism as new business outstrips rebooks and amends
Steady sales momentum points towards slow-burn peaks
The latest data from TTG’s monthly Travel Agent Tracker survey highlights how predictions of an extended peaks may not be far of the mark, if slower than anticipated
Fletcher joins NCL from Travel Solutions of Belfast
NCL names Aaron Fletcher its first BDM for Ireland
Fletcher joins from Travel Solutions of Belfast and brings 16 years’ travel industry experience to the role – including stints at Thomas Cook and Oasis Travel
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Hays Independence Group names Green as new BDM
Kelly Green will support the consortium’s agent members in central UK
The team stayed at two five-star resorts in Lanzarote
Hays North West team enjoy first Jet2 fam for two years
Jet2holidays whisked 16 Hays North West staff away for a three-day five-star trip to Lanzarote to reward them for ’going the extra mile’ during the Covid crisis
Jacqueline Dobson: 'We must break down more barriers for women'
’As leaders, we have a duty to the next generation to demand better,’ writes Barrhead Travel president Jacqueline Dobson for International Women’s Day