Touring and Adventure

Lata to put UK market at heart of its new responsible tourism vision

Lata’s new vision centres around good-quality, responsible tourism with a reinvigorated focus on the UK market and a new partnership with Queer Destinations to promote LGBTQ+ rights

‘Becoming B Corp Certified will be a minimum standard in travel’

Not in the Guidebooks boss Carol Savage tells TTG about the latest milestone in the four-year journey and how travel agents remain the core of the operator’s growth plans

G Touring brands launch new donation scheme backing Planeterra projects

Just You and Travelsphere will match every £5 donation made by customers to support Planeterra’s projects around the world

Campaigners claim qualified victory after FCDO revises Sri Lanka travel advice

’This is a major win for all those who signed up to our public campaign for fairer, more accurate travel guidance on Sri Lanka,’ said Sam Clark, chief executive of Sri Lanka specialist Experience Travel Group

How women are driving Intrepid's exploration of Saudi Arabia

Intrepid’s Zina Bencheikh talks to TTG about the tour operator’s decision to expand into Saudi Arabia and how local women – and its visitors – will benefit from its approach

Intrepid Travel introduces female-led tours of Saudi Arabia

Tours will start in the Saudi capital of Riyadh and wind up in Jeddah and will be female-only

Caroline Burroughs returns to travel with Not in the Guidebooks

Experience specialist names former Wendy Wu Tours trade support manager Burroughs its new trade sales development manager

Hurtigruten welcomes world's first ‘chief aurora chaser’ to Northern Lights cruise

The renowned astronomer will bring a wealth of cosmic knowledge to 12-night sailings in the Arctic

Why Sri Lanka is the next big safari destination agents need to know about

Safari specialist Mahlatini is branching out with the launch of its first product outside Africa, featuring 18 itineraries in Sri Lanka

'There is far more to see and do on the island than I ever envisioned'

Not Just Travel’s Jenifer Compton was blown away by her discoveries on St Helena, when she visited the remote British Overseas Territory with the tourist board.

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Group touring specialist Travelsphere and solo touring company Just You have released their festive tours for 2024, including brand new tours.

Departure dates start from 2nd to 30th December, and destinations include short-haul trips in the UK to popular European cities and coastlines.

New Just You tours include winter UK staycations, festive river cruises on the Rhine, and Christmas and New Year celebrations in Malta, Portugal and Spain.

TTC Tour Brands expands UK sales team in push for 'sustainable success'

Area sales managers Rhianne Richardson, Ryan Carroll and Donna Nelson start their roles on 25 March

TTC and VisitScotland team up to promote responsible tourism as 'new normal'

The Travel Corporation and VisitScotland have entered a ’unique’ partnership which will see new itineraries developed with responsible tourism at its core and resources to support tourism businesses in developing action plans

Intrepid Travel turns around £9 million loss to post record annual profit

Intrepid Travel’s annual report reveals its fortunes in a year of recovery with optimistic forecasts for 2024

Explore to operate first tours to Tunisia for eight years

The operator’s Best of Tunisia programme has been its fastest-selling among those it introduced for 2024

G Touring hires Jasmine Moreton as new key account manager south

Moreton will join Travelsphere and Just You parent G Touring from Serenity Holidays on 2 April

Not in the Guidebooks to host first long-haul fam trip

Experiential travel specialist will take eight agents to Costa Rica this June

Insight Vacations launches small group women-only tours with agent incentive

Insight Vacations, a sub brand of TTC is launching 11 tours aimed at solo female travellers across the globe with an incentive for agents and travellers alike

Gold Medal parent hails agents for buying into peaks campaigns

’All of our B2B brands had a successful peaks and achieved some exceptional records,’ said dnata Travel Group UK B2B product and commercial director Adrian James

Adventure travel leads express hope for carbon labelling to become an industry ‘common currency’

Panellists at Adventure Travel Networking 2024 were keen to see an industry standard for carbon labelling trips but insisted those that can’t should not be penalised

Riviera to shrink group numbers following customer feedback

European tours from 2025 will see the number of tourists allowed go down from 50 to 36 to “enhance the guest experience even further”

G Adventures launches five new projects empowering women

All five projects will empower women to be financially independent while promoting their local culture and traditions

Not in the Guidebooks hails B Corp certification a springboard for trade ambitions

Founder and chief executive Carol Savage said the business wanted to become the ’go-to’ experiential travel specialist for agents

Tui puts new tours to Canada, Mexico and Norway on sale

Commercial director Phillip Iveson said the tours were tailored to offer customers more flexibility