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Canadian Affair offers agents new search function on upgraded portal

Canadian Affair has added new functions to its website designed to enhance the booking process for agents

Designer Travel team hail 'transformative' sustainability training push

Homeworking agency puts 50 consultants and team members through sustainability training with Kiwano Tourism

Jules Verne to up trade focus with two new senior leadership roles

Escorted touring specialist Jules Verne has signalled a further focus on trade sales with a reshuffle of two key roles

Kristie Crozier

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New Jet2 routes take off from Birmingham and Edinburgh airports

The airline and operator will serve Montenegro from BHX for the first time this summer, while Edinburgh has gained its first Jet2 service to Malta

Carnival Cruise Line to offer 350 agent ship visit spaces this year

Line to host ‘more travel agents than ever before’ during its 2024 ship visit programme in Dover, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Greenock (Glasgow) and Belfast

Virgin Voyages reveals Brilliant Lady's debut sailings following delayed launch

The 2,770-passenger vessel will operate from a mix of US ports, including New York, Miami, Los Angeles and Seattle throughout 2025 and 2026

Cunard: ‘With Queen Anne, we have a great window to launch a UK-based ship’

Cunard’s Tom Mahoney tells Harry Kemble about the line’s plans to promote its latest vessel – its first new ship for 14 years – to the trade ahead of its maiden voyage from Southampton

Isabel Turner-Hicks

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'More and more agents are concerned about sustainability in tourism'

Ahead of Abta’s Delivering Sustainable Travel Conference on 15 May, head of events Sulamith Waldmeier offers a flavour of what to expect on the day - from overtourism to the ’say-do’ debate

Travel's gender pay gap ‘almost solely’ down to disparities for highest-paid roles

C&M Travel Recruitment research reveals pay parity for men and women at most industry levels except the very top, where men still take most roles

Nandi Dube

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Miles Morgan sells up to Hays Travel after nearly 20 years

Hays Travel said it had no plans to rebrand any of Miles Morgan Travel’s 19 branches across the South West and South Wales

Nisha Bean promoted to Travelosophers head of sales

Travelosophers has promoted Nisha Bean to a new sales role after three years with the business

Marella Cruises unveils first ‘trade-wide’ incentive to woo third-party agents

Top-selling agents can win a place on a sailing on Marella Explorer 2 next year through the incentive

APT's Sarah Turner joins Audley Travel as new southern-focused BDM

Turner took up her role with the upmarket brand on Monday (29 April)

Airlines given a month to act on misleading ‘greenwash’ claims

The European Commission has told 20 airlines they must stop making misleading green claims within 30 days or face a clampdown

Meet TTG Top 50's unexpected new top luxury agency

What started out as a small homeworking agency is now a global titan with its eye on a multi-billion luxury opportunity

Simon Leeming named new cruise lead at Unforgettable Travel Company

In his new role, Simon Leeming will focus on offering year-round trips to around 5,000 existing cruise customers as well as new clients

Elegant Resorts launches new collection of bucket list trips

Featuring everything from island hopping to upscale rail travel, expedition cruising to wilderness safaris, the new collection highlights some of the operator’s most dream destinations via a range of 17 new itineraries.

With 2024 bookings to Vietnam up 50% year-on-year, the collection’s new Vietnam’s Cities, Culture and Coast 16-day exploration includes deluxe boat and train journeys from north to south, a private cooking demonstration by one of the country’s best-known chefs and the chance to cycle to meet the isolated fishing community of Viet Hai.

The luxury agency still attracting new clients after 35 years

Luxury agency Pettitts Travel targets new clients with what it hopes will be unique offerings

'A lot of thought has gone into restructuring our sales team,' says Globus UK sales chief

Sales director Phil Shipman identified the need to segment the sales team to help support the company’s key trade accounts

Ambassador launches recruitment drive to bolster trade sales team

The no-fly cruise line plans to recruit a deputy head of trade, a new business development and a new business development executive in the coming weeks

Premier Travel signals cruise push with new BDM appointment

Premier Travel has said it plans to have a bigger presence in the cruise market with the appointment of a dedicated business development manager