Short haul operators

Travel Counsellors holds first World Cup incentive scheme since 2018

Travel Counsellors launches its first global incentive scheme for five years

TV's Amar Latif's tour operator launches new multi-sensory holiday programme

HF Holidays announced a partnership with blind TV personality and adventurer Amar Latif OBE in October ahead of the programme’s launch

Solmar Villa Holidays bolsters trade team with experienced hire

Villa specialist Solmar adds new member to its trade team, with expansion plans for 2024

Aito commercial director Bharat Gadhoke to leave association in the new year

Aito said Gadhoke was moving on ’after a near ten-year stint at the coalface of membership affairs’, characterised by executive director Martyn Sumners as ten years of "frankly, hard slog’

British Airways to offer new Sardinia and Spain routes from Scotland

British Airways to add new Edinburgh routes to Sardinia and Spain’s Basque Country

EasyJet puts autumn 2024 and half-term flights on sale

EasyJet reveals its autumn 2024 flight schedule of 68,000 flights across its network

Tui floats plan to quit London Stock Exchange

Shareholders tell Tui its majority German ownership means it no longer needs to be listed on the London Stock Exchange

Holiday price hikes to slow next summer, Tui predicts

Tui has given a confident outlook for 2024, with no let-up in demand – and with package price inflation lower than in 2023

Thomson and Tui veteran David Burling to step down after 34 years

David Burling joined Thomson Holidays as a graduate trainee in 1990 and served as managing director of Tui UK and Ireland from 2011 to 2015

Tui boss backs third-party retailers, but says app will go global

Tui has reiterated its faith in third-party agents, but has outlined plans to capture more commoditised sales via a global roll-out of its app

Tui bullish despite Egypt hit as average selling price continues to rise

Airline and operator hopeful of strong winter 2023/24 and summer 2024 seasons with average selling prices up 5% and 4% respectively, highlighting ’continued willingness to prioritise spend on travel and experiences’

Tui focused on becoming 'more profitable, more efficient and stronger' in 2024

European travel giant hopeful of growing earnings by a quarter next year, and revenue by a further 10%, despite a market environment that chief executive Sebastian Ebel characterised as ’remaining challenging’

On the Beach: 'Our B2B brands can disrupt the tour operator space'

Chief executive Shaun Morton has told TTG that despite On the Beach Group’s online-led B2C model, its agent-focused Classic Collection and Classic Package brands could help it grow its total market share

Tui launches accessibility guides for customers at 200 of its hotels

Tui has released Detailed Access Guides for an initial 200 hotels in its partnership with AccessAble, with another 200 hotels to be surveyed in 2024

The travel trends and buzzwords agents can't afford to ignore next year

Who are Generation T? What’s the deal with ’shoulder shoppers’? And how do you court ’sustainability selectors’? Abta sought to demystify a number of emerging markets at its Travel Trends conference this week – here’s what agents need to know

Jet2 trade chief urges agents not to forget about the lates market during peaks

’Lates is the best marketing tool – clients are in the frame of mind to book,’ Alan Cross told TTG at the Jet2holidays conference in Antalya

Tui holds firm on captive dolphin attraction sales despite agent pressure

Tui UK boss says it will let consumers decide whether to visit attractions featuring captive dolphins

Jet2holidays puts four new destinations across Greece, Portugal and Croatia on sale

Athenian Riviera and the Greek island of Symi to join Jet2’s 2024 programme, with summer holidays to Pula and Porto city breaks taking off in 2025

New era of sustainable holiday demand imminent, Jet2 chief warns agents

Airline and operator to flag hotels that have achieved Global Sustainable Tourism Council certification in response to ’exponential’ growth in web searches for ’sustainable’, ’low-carbon’ and ’guilt-free’ holiday product

Jet2 reveals key trends driving average trade sales prices towards £1,000pp

Longer stays, coupled with more family and luxury bookings, has driven average sales prices per person with Jet2holidays up by £100 over the past year, general manager trade Lloyd Cross has revealed

EasyJet bosses predict its 'almost impossible to replicate' operator model is set for rapid growth

EasyJet holidays can easily tap into parent airline capacity to grow rapidly, bosses say as they reveal strong growth in profits

EasyJet counts cost of Middle East crisis but is upbeat about summer

EasyJet spells out the impact of the crisis in the Middle East but says it will not derail its ambitions for the coming year

EasyJet holidays contributes to good 2023 group financial result

EasyJet has revealed a turnaround in its 2023 financial results helped by its in-house tour operation

Tui hails ‘double-digit’ rise in independent agent sales since trade push

In recent weeks, Tui has grown its trade sales team to 17, offered agents improved commercial terms and boosted call centre support