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Tui to restart ex-UK holidays next month
Eight destinations across Spain and Greece available from 11 July
Tui to open talks over consolidating group airline
’We must make Tui fly fit for the future," said managing director Oliver Lackmann
Egypt's Red Sea resorts to reopen next month
Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada allowed to receive visitors again
Tech and tour operating post-Covid focus of WTM sessions
Two new webinars will be hosted this week
Josephides: 'We'll all be much smaller companies after Covid'
Ex-Abta chair assesses how operators will adapt to the new landscape facing travel
Tui inks tours and attraction partnership with Booking.com
Booking.com customers to get direct access to more than 70,000 tours and attractions offered by Tui excursion and experience platform Musement
John Bevan: FCO must review indefinite travel ban now
’Our customers tell us that while they are ready and willing to book and travel this summer, they are nervous to do so while this FCO advice remains in place’
Jet2 parent sells haulage firm Fowler Welch for £98m
Sale to allow Dart Group to focus on leisure travel businesses Jet2.com and Jet2holidays
Spain and Greece top consumers’ post-lockdown holiday list
Top 10 destinations also feature long-haul favourites Florida and Caribbean
Prestige launches 'flexible' 2020/21 Canaries holidays
New brochure is the operator’s first since the coronavirus lockdown
Tui: 'No plans' to reopen stores to customers on 15 June
Operator to increase the size of its retail team from the start of next week, but will not reopen high street stores yet despite government go-ahead
Tui 'preparing intensively' to relaunch in Spain
Boss Fritz Joussen says operator ready to plan holidays to Majorca, the Canaries and the Spanish mainland
Summer 2020 a write-off for A&K customers
Research shows wealthy clients unlikely to travel before autumn but finds Europe will be most popular when they do
Tui's Flintham: 'We know we haven't got it right on refunds'
Operator launches self-service refund tool, and introduces greater flexibility on amendments
Gold Medal and Travel 2 expand out of range availability into 2022
Destinations include Florida, Asia, the Caribbean, Indian Ocean, and Dubai and Arabia
Jet2 parent firms up finances with £172m share offering
Dart Group secures additional cash to mitigate ’challenging trading environment’
Dnata takes on Etihad Holidays brand in the UK
Etihad Holidays to be primarily direct sell under new management
Jet2 parent secures £300 million from govt Covid fund
Cash will be used to provide "standby liquidity" should it be required
Aito blasts govt for 'inexcusable' confusion over refund advice
’Our staff have been shouted at by anxious consumers and our members left hanging out to dry by the inaction of government on this front’
Bevan: 'Covid-19 has changed our future crisis planning'
“There have been a lot of learnings and it’s been a hell of journey," says dnata Travel Europe boss
Tui boss: 'We must make 2020 holidays possible'
Fritz Joussen says EU member states must develop a roadmap to restore leisure travel in Europe by the end of the year, suggesting preparations in Greece, Cyprus and Portugal could put them ahead of the game
Jet2holidays vows to back trade post-coronavirus
‘When we exit lockdown, we’ll be working closely with you to generate as much business as possible,’ says head of trade Alan Cross, confirming the operator’s 2020 agent conference has been postponed
Aito: ‘Govt seems content to let us shrivel and die’
Association praises Abta and other industry bodies for efforts to highlight to Westminster the magnitude of the refund crisis in travel
EU to seek 'harmonised solution' on package refunds
Tourism ministers also pledge support from new EU ‘recovery fund’ to sectors ‘hardest hit’ by the coronavirus crisis