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Touring and Adventure

Explore to trial e-bike only departures on select 2024 cycling tours
The brand said e-bikes allowed couples and groups with varying levels of fitness to join the same tours without worrying about managing longer distances
The Sri Lanka adventure that opened agents' eyes to the benefits of touring
Madeleine Barber joined TTG Sustainable Travel Ambassadors and G Touring in Sri Lanka to learn how the operator delivers richer experiences for travellers and helps care for the people and places they visit
Watch: Why an enriching tour is the best way to see Sri Lanka
TTG teamed up with G Touring (Just You and Travelsphere) to take agents on a sustainability-focused fam trip and help them discover Sri Lanka in a way that benefits people and the planet – and promises richer experiences.
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
Walking holiday specialists merge with pledge to make it easier for agents to book
New tour collections have been created to help agents find the right trip for their clients more easily
Wendy Wu: 'Staying in business for 25 years is nothing – we could go on for 100!'
As Wendy Wu Tours marks its quarter-century, its eponymous founder talks TTG through its remarkable story
Explore set to return to Tunisia after long absence
Adventure specialist relaunches itineraries to Tunisia after a gap of almost seven years
G Adventures unveils new range of sustainability-focused luxury tours
G Adventures introduces the Geluxe Collection to its range of tours, aiming at those who want an upmarket yet sustainable tour
Hays Travel to relaunch in-house tour operator as 'standalone B2B brand' Vista
Former Travel 2 manager Kathleen Molloy will head up sales and product at Vista, with Tracey Luke serving as head of operations
Tui to expand touring and multi-centre options for 2025
Tui enlarges its touring programme for summer 2025 as it continues its attempt to broaden its appeal
Chile targets longer stays and more British Airways airlift in 2024
Chilean Tourism Board’s national director Cristobal Benitez Villafranca hopeful persuading BA to extend its current four-times-weekly Santiago route to seven-times-weekly
Incredible Journeys’ latest campaign sends sales records tumbling
500%+ increase in number of agents booking with the trade-only brand following two-week ’September peaks’ campaign
G Touring to recruit for four new trade sales team roles
Travelsphere and G Touring parent confirms plans to recruit a trade sales director, two new key account managers and a trade sales marketing executive
TTC Tour Brands appoints Polly Poulton to expanded sales team
The escorted touring specialist has revealed an expanded trade sales team
EasyJet holidays' Kelly Walker to join TTC Tour Brands as sales director
Walker to take up sales director UK, Ireland and Europe role with Contiki, Trafalgar, Costsaver, Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold parent in January 2024
Explore Worldwide to reveal new brand identity 'in the coming weeks'
Tour operator to release new-look magazines and brochures for 2024
Byway Travel introduces carbon labelling as more Brits consider flight-free trips
The slow travel is hopeful the initiative will inspire more people to swap flight-based holidays for rail and other alternatives
‘Without agents, Exodus probably wouldn't be a household name’
Sam Seward, managing director of Exodus Adventure Travels, talks trade relationships, travel trends and sustainability with TTG ahead of the brand’s 50th anniversary next year
G Adventures and Planeterra vow to ‘uplift’ 300 communities by 2030
The Project 300 initiative has been described as “the next chapter” for G and Planeterra’s charity work
Solos specialist targeting agents secures £5m to fuel growth plans
The £5 million funding comes after the solo specialist confirmed in the summer it would begin working with agents for the first time
British tourist killed at Ugandan national park prompts Foreign Office alert
The Briton was among the three people killed in the attack at Queen Elizabeth National Park
HF Holidays partners with TV's Amar Latif to offer multi-sensory group holidays
The special interest holiday operator will ’power’ Latif’s Traveleyes’ itineraries from spring 2024
Explore names Lisa Burton its new business development manager
Burton brings experience to the role from stints with Variety Cruises and MSC Cruises
Black Tomato targets groups with ‘See You in the Moment’ trips
Itineraries designed around “shared” travel experiences for families and friends