Mid haul

Tui plans dynamic package and accommodation-only push

Tui plans to take on online booking engines with more component-based sales

Tui seeks ‘significant’ compensation from airports for delays

Tui Group has warned it will seek to recoup the millions it lost due to airport delays in the spring

Consumers will still holiday despite recession threat, says new Tui chief

Tui sees consumers trading down due to recession but says holidays will still sell

UK remains Tui's most advanced market in terms of bookings

Booking volumes up 5% on summer 2019 levels at same stage of the year, says European travel giant

Tui highlights Manchester disruption following failure to turn spring profit

Group says €75 million in additional costs, which turned a ‘clearly profitable’ €48 million in underlying earnings into a €27 million loss, ‘mainly related to departures from Manchester airport’

Jet2 chair warns inflation and economy may hit selling prices

Record inflation and grim outlook for UK economy will impact holiday sales, says Philip Meeson

Elegant Resorts and If Only to create combined sales team

Decision to merge sales operation, effective from October, sparked by departure of head of sales Jon Hardcastle

Cape Verde specialist showcases islands with new brochure

Destination specialist Cape Verde Experience has released a new brochure with bookable holidays, hotels and experiences in the archipelago up until autumn 2023.

Red Savannah celebrates 10th anniversary and ‘phenomenal’ sales

Specialist operator Red Savannah is celebrating a surge in sales as it belatedly marks its 10th anniversary

Jet2holidays reveals new campaign to boost agent sales

The nationwide event will be supported by a social media campaign across Facebook and Instagram

Agent and operator scramble to save clients' holiday at 5am

Triangle Travel and Typically Holidays scrambled to find a replacement flight for two clients after their BA service to Pisa was cancelled three hours before it was due to depart

Tui ‘on its way back to becoming a normal company’

Group confirms it has repaid a further €671 million in Covid state aid

G Adventures campaign aims to spark wanderlust

New G Adventures campaign asks ‘When was the last time you felt like this?’

Travel Pride Champions 2022 shortlist announced

Seven individuals working in the UK travel industry have been shortlisted for TTG’s Travel Pride Champion Awards, for their work advocating diversity and inclusion within their businesses and with customers.

Jet2holidays increases amendment fees

Operator aims to cut down on abuse of pandemic booking policy with bigger amendment fees

Explore reports uptick in agent sales

The small-group tour operator has also identified five consumer booking trends

Blue Bay appoints Sunny Gill as trade support lead

He will start on 27 June, replacing Tasha Smith, who left the business this month

ITT conference: Travel must have the courage to embrace transparency

Gold Medal’s UK boss Simon Applebaum urges travel industry to embrace transparency and come to terms with the ‘discomfort and vulnerability’ it brings

Regent Holidays adds new Iceland flights and itineraries

The tours have been created to link with a twice-weekly service from new airline, Niceair, that will fly directly from Stansted to Akureyri

Red Sea Holidays to up trade focus with new hires

Managing director Andrew Grant tells TTG the operator hopes to hire a trade sales manager to boost the brand’s relationship with agents as travel emerges from the Covid crisis

Classic Collection launches Canary Islands brochure amid Spain demand

The new collection of stays around the Canary Islands features multi-centre options

Tui and easyJet apologise for flight delays and cancellations

Carriers pre-emptively cancelling flights, with Tui citing ‘combination of factors causing significant operational disruption’

Inghams puts summer 2023 programme on sale with low deposit

Julie Franklin, head of agency sales, said the early programme launch gives the brand’s agent partners the chance to ‘maximise the selling period’

Multi-centre focus for Classic’s new Morocco and Egypt brochure

New collection inspired by demand for Nile cruise and stay holidays, and trips to Marrakech, Morocco’s Agafay desert and the High Atlas mountains