Resorts

Local Measure signs up Fairmont and Banyan Tree brands

’Social guest intelligence platform’ to help chains get closer to guests

Thomas Cook to launch room selection service for guests

Customers staying at Cook’s branded resorts can choose their room for a fee

Cook plans Cuba evacuation as Caribbean airports reopen

Operator to bring clients home from Varadero after Irma passes

CTO sets up fund to help Irma victims

Caribbean Tourism Organisation appeals for funds to rebuild following Hurricane Irma

How to sell children's entertainment at Butlin's

When selling Butlin’s, it’s all about who you know. Charlotte Cullinan outlines the who’s who of kids’ entertainment

Irma continues to wreak havoc as it heads to the US

Hurricane Irma passes Cuba and the Turks & Caicos on Friday

Hurricane Irma set to cause havoc across the Caribbean

Caribbean and Florida set to see ’most dangerous hurricane ever recorded’

Teeing up to a challenge: The Caribbean’s toughest golf offerings

Boasting more than 116 courses, the Caribbean can rightly be called a golfer’s paradise. If your clients are golfing fans, you’ll need a list of top-notch suggestions and reasons why these courses will put them through their paces. We round up five of the region’s most challenging options that will test even the most seasoned players.

Top five reasons to visit the new Sandals Royal Barbados resort

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, Sandals is introducing its new resort: Sandals Royal Barbados. Think all suites, all luxury and all on a jet-setter Caribbean island.

Located in the spirited St Lawrence Gap, adjacent to Sandals Barbados, the all-new resort is due to open its doors in December 2017.

To help you learn all about this new holiday hotspot, here are five things your clients can expect at Sandals Royal Barbados:

Duetto steps up presence in luxury sector

Tech specialist signs up with Constance Hotels & Resorts to help revenue strategy

Virgin Holidays launches single-parent family holidays

The tailor-made holidays will be available at 10 of the company’s Caribbean resorts

Saudi Arabia plans luxury Red Sea resorts

The move is designed to attract foreign tourists as well as domestic visitors and is part of a drive to create new revenues for the Saudi economy, following the fall in oil prices

Kuoni's new Far East brochure focuses on private pool villas

Nine new properties have also been introduced in the brochure, with six in Thailand, two in Bali and one in Cambodia

Honeymoon Dreams unveils new head office in Birmingham

The office will have “room to grow”

Olympic champion backs Thomson swimming scheme

Rebecca Adlington launched the operator’s new initiative in Croatia

All in good taste: Fine dining in the Caribbean

From dining inside a 300-year-old sugar mill to gorging on indigenous Jamaican wood-infused slow-roasted pork, Andrew Doherty discovers a cornucopia of high-end gastronomic experiences in the Caribbean

Holidaymakers urged 'run, hide, tell' in the event of terrorist attack

New FCO video aimed at holidaymakers’ safety

Agents scoop more than £2,000 in vouchers with Bourne incentive

The operator’s Summer Lovin’ campaign is its biggest giveaway in recent years

Intelligence: Trimming costs on all-inclusive

Tourists in Turkey and Spain find it cheaper to go all-inclusive than opting for bed and breakfast deals and sourcing their drinks and evening meals independently

Thomas Cook to open first own-brand UAE hotel

The smartline Ras Al Khaimah Beach Resort will open its doors in November

Parents vow to 'carry on taking term-time holidays despite risk of being criminalised'

11% of parents also revealed that they would lie to the school about absences, “reporting their kids as sick when they are in fact on a term-time holiday”

Torrents of fun at Universal Orlando’s Volcano Bay

From the adrenalin-fuelled to the serene, Universal Orlando Resort’s latest attraction, Volcano Bay, has a waterslide for everyone. Andrew Doherty attends the park opening to experience the thrills first-hand

Honeymoons nearly a quarter of all bookings for Kuoni

Operator releases annual trends report as sector continues to boom

Hoseasons bookings buoyant despite election uncertainty

Bookings for self-catering specialist Hoseasons were up 20% last week