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Touring and Adventure

Jet2.com and Jet2holidays expand summer 2023 Bodrum season
Flights and holidays from Birmingham, Manchester and Stansted to the Turkish city are now available from April 2023
Jet2holidays appoints two new trade sales executives
Aileen Rutherford and Ryan Clayton will work with the operator’s agency partners in Scotland, Cumbria, the East Midlands and South Yorkshire
Newmarket reports uptick in long-haul agent sales
Popular tours include Peru, Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands, South Africa, and Kenya
G Adventures campaign aims to spark wanderlust
New G Adventures campaign asks ‘When was the last time you felt like this?’
Riviera Travel adds new US tour to 2023 programme
The USA’s Rocky Mountaineer and Iconic National Parks escorted tour is on sale now
Explore reports uptick in agent sales
The small-group tour operator has also identified five consumer booking trends
G Adventures hires reporter to experience hostel-based tours
The operator’s new Roamies product offers 38 itineraries across 15 countries, staying in more than 50 hostels
Agent bags Vespa from Classic Collection incentive win
Lesley Reeves won the scooter as part of the operator’s biggest-ever giveaway
Mercury Holidays offers tour price promise
Customers have been advised to book early to secure the best prices
Blue Bay appoints Sunny Gill as trade support lead
He will start on 27 June, replacing Tasha Smith, who left the business this month
Newmarket launches 22/23/24 escorted tour collection
An additional eight new programmes have also been added
Riviera Travel launches new premium tour programme
The operator’s new Signature collection features 40 trips across Europe to destinations such as Italy, Spain, Croatia and Austria
Air travel disruption fuelling UK demand, claims Shearings
The coach tour specialist said the “huge popularity” for UK-based trips during the pandemic was “showing no sign of slowing down”
Latin Routes reveals post-Covid plans to increase support for agents
Latin America specialist to retain Covid-era agent-client Zoom calls, expand its business development team and provide additional trade marketing materials
Japan reopens borders to UK tourists
During the first phase of reopening, travellers from 98 countries, including the UK, will be allowed entry if they are on a fully guided package tour
Regent Holidays adds new Iceland flights and itineraries
The tours have been created to link with a twice-weekly service from new airline, Niceair, that will fly directly from Stansted to Akureyri
Wendy Wu Tours to restart small-group tours of Japan next month
Asia specialist will put on an 11-day Jewels of Japan departure from 26 July, and has added capacity to its autumn 2022 and spring 2023 departures
Agents behind uptick in consumers' confidence to travel, says Intrepid
Managing director EMEA Zina Bencheikh tells TTG more about Intrepid’s plans to honour agents for their efforts to help travel recover from the Covid crisis on National Travel Agent Day (22 July)
JG Travel Group expands fleet of branded coaches
Chief executive Andy Freeth said the group, which operates the National Holidays and Just Go! Holidays brands, would look to expand its fleet further later this year
Titan Travel launches first-ever private jet tour
The brand is offering a 23-day trip which visits nine destinations across six countries: Italy, Montenegro, Jordan, India, Uzbekistan and Turkey
Rabbie's secures multi-million pound investment
Minibus tour specialist Rabbie’s secures cash injection for expansion
Chillimix reveals new Latin American tour
The Journey to Rio tour starts in Buenos Aires and finishes in Rio de Janeiro
'It's on all of us to ensure travel is a force for good'
Writing for TTG, Travel Corporation chief sustainability officer Shannon Guihan introduces the group’s first Impact Report – and how agents can make best use of its findings and teachings
G Adventures: Latin America trends
Bookings to Latin America are recovering for G Adventures but some destinations are bouncing back more quickly than others. The operator shares its trends.