Touring

TTG Riviera Fest 2024: Meet the team

Say hello to Riviera’s trade team and learn how they can help you sell sensational holidays.

TTG Riviera Fest 2024: Agent take

Which clients are the right clients for Riviera’s river and ocean cruises, yacht holidays and touring adventures? Expert agents share their tips for matching different types of client to their perfect Riviera adventure.

TTG Riviera Fest 2024: Why, why, why... Riviera?

TTG quizzes Riviera on what makes them different from other cruise lines and tour operators, including how they offer your customers great value for money.

TTG Riviera Fest 2024: Hot off the press

Riviera tells TTG all the latest product news across its river cruise, ocean cruise and touring portfolios, and shares advice for how best to communicate this to your customers.

Agent reveals highs and lows of planning ‘treacherous’ Point Nemo trip

Wanderlux’s Rebecca Puttock reveals how she helped her client achieve his goal of reaching the ultra-remote Point Nemo

If Only expands southern Africa programme for 2024

The luxury tour operator has added the three destinations to its portfolio following its successful South Africa launch in 2022.

Travel Department to up agent focus following first year of trade sales

The Irish tour operator is now ’strategically’ working on building more agency partnerships

Explore chief: ‘I don't see a ceiling for our relationship with agents’

As Explore Worldwide reports a strong first-half performance for 2024 that has outstripped all of 2023, managing director Michael Edwards tells how he can’t thank agents enough

APT launches new small-group touring product with India itineraries

The company will initially offer Small Group Journeys itineraries in India between October 2024 and December 2025

First-ever TTG Riviera Fest to offer eight fam trip places

TTG Riviera Fest will take place for the first time 13-17 May and offer attendees the chance to win one of eight places on a fam trip

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

Globus restructures and expands trade team to give agents more support

New key account manager Jayne Lambert will support agents selling Globus’ touring brands, while Kelly Calver will work with river cruise-selling agents to boost Avalon Waterways sales

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

Riviera's trade business can still grow ‘significantly’, boss insists

Chief executive Phil Hullah confirmed the company wants to take 200,000 passengers away each year by 2030 with the help of agents

Luxury agency reveals secrets to creating a successful sales day on a budget

Hertfordshire agency Beaver Travel took over the neighbouring estate agents on a Sunday for a hit event

Inspire Group pledges to offer 'best proposition' in homeworking sector

The company plans to launch a new cruise website and tour offering as it looks to ’strengthen’ its proposition in the market

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

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

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”

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

Adventure sector set for ‘powerful’ year despite shrinking booking window

Speaking at this year’s Adventure Travel Networking Conference, Spike Insight revealed a positive year ahead but concerns remain about shortened booking windows in a buyer’s market