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Luxury travel agents share Instagram hacks for increasing sales and winning clients
Agents share their best tips for expanding your client base and creating a clear identity on the popular platform
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Amex Global Business Travel to acquire rival CWT for $570 million
The transaction will be funded by a combination of stock and cash and is expected to close during the second half of this year
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Eight top tips for implementing AI in your business
Start small, support staff, and maintain human interaction, advises Andy Headington, chief executive of marketing agency Adido
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The Travel Industry Awards 2024 by TTG: everything you need to know
Travel’s most sought-after awards are back! Find out what’s new and how to enter
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The AI tool that can increase travel agents' efficiency and productivity
Microsoft’s Copilot is an AI-powered productivity tool that automates the mundane, time-consuming aspects of admin-heavy jobs such as travel agent.
The event takes place on 27 and 29 February
ATN24 Conference and Marketplace to open for appointments
The two-day hybrid ATN24 Conference & Marketplace is now sold out for conference delegates and suppliers but buyers can still register and can book their meeting slots from 15 February 2024
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New partnership boosts Windstar distribution to UK agents
Windstar Cruises has partnered with Traveltek to offer UK travel agents access to GBP pricing, product information and itineraries
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Majority of Brits continuing to prioritise travel over all other expenses
Four in five Brits are continuing to choose travel as their top budget priority despite the current macroeconomic headwinds, a new survey has revealed
Cruise app founder lays out ambitious 2024 plans
Cruise app founder lays out ambitious 2024 plans
Co-founder Sefton Monk reveals ambitions for My Kind of Cruise to become the “biggest cruise retailer in the world” with around 31,500 users that are new to cruise
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‘Be like Bev and Trev and build your businesses on stone, not sticks and straw’
Once upon a time, Bev and Trev ran a travel agency. When a global pandemic hit, they rolled up their sleeves and worked all hours to look after their customers – this is their story
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An agent's guide to formulating a social media strategy
If you’ve resolved to crack Instagram, TikTok and the rest in 2024, then our expert can help you implement a fresh strategy.
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Everything you need to know about the upcoming EU border rules
Following years of delays, the much-discussed EU border schemes are set to be implemented over the next 12-18 months. Here’s all you need to know about it…
Heathrow has experimented with biometric technologies
Border Force to trial facial recognition technology at UK airports
Border Force will test frictionless borders at UK airports using biometric technology this year, its boss has confirmed
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The sanity checks you need to run before making AI work for your business
Question the audacious claims of AI, then grasp its potential, says Mark Thompson, chief information officer, Palatinate Group.
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Wizz Air insists engine inspection issue will not hamper expansion
Wizz Air details how it will be affected by global inspection programme of potentially faulty engines
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Inghams and Explore among brands hit by cyberattack on Hotelplan UK
Hotelplan UK warns of cybersecurity breach on five UK brands, which led it to shut down its IT systems
Tui rolls out accommodation-only platform to Irish market
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
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Transport sec urges aviation sector to 'deliver outcomes' for greener flying
Mark Harper has stressed commitment to aviation carbon reduction but says it’s the industry’s role to innovate
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How Travel Counsellors hopes to win in 2024
Five key focuses and strategies from Travel Counsellors for 2024
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‘Digitise the predictable and humanise the experiential’ through AI, travel companies told
According to Thompson, using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT will help travel companies save precious time by streamlining bureaucratic processes
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Travel businesses told to ‘shape their future before it shapes them’
Hoseasons former boss Richard Carrick has urged delegates to make forecasts with caution
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‘Agents swayed by AI must remember to keep a firm hand on the wheel’
Generative AI opens vistas of opportunity for travel marketers and agents, but caution must be taken before rushing into adopting technology just because others are, writes We Are Llama’s Mags Sikora for TTG
IAG sets out timetable for British Airways’ return to pre-Covid capacity
British Airways piloting new tech to resolve lost baggage more promptly
New system will allow cabin crew to inform passengers mid-flight if their bags don’t make a connection
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Hays Travel to overhaul 375 branches and make major tech investments
A Hays app is planned for to launch in the spring, while a new WhatsApp platform has "seen tremendous sales"