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How can agents plan ahead to ride out the next inevitable crisis?

We Are Llama’s Phil Bloomfield looks at how industry marketers in the industry can face up to – and get ahead of – the inevitable unpredictability that travel faces

Airports urged to end 'unfair and excessive' pick-up and drop-off fees

The Business Travel Association blasts airport drop-off and pick-up fees as a rip-off for passengers and profiteering

Unrest in Ecuador 'risks spilling over into Peru', Foreign Office warns

Ecuador’s president Daniel Noboa has extended the country’s 60-day state of emergency for a further 30 days through to 6 April

Short watch: Visit Jersey In The Spotlight

What’s Visit Jersey’s new campaign about, who should you be promoting the island to and what can they do when they get there? Discover all this and more in this five-minute In The Spotlight video

The Big Question: Do women have equal opportunity to progress in travel?

The agency sector, in particular, is still staffed primarily by women. So is the industry creating enough openings for them to maximise their potential?

Si Morris-Green to step up at Classic Collection as Andy Freeth departs

Trade specialist set to lose its chief executive and product and commercial boss in wholesale changes at the top

Ex-Cook cruise lead and Celebrity sales manager to join Advantage

Zoe Edwards joins the Advantage Travel Partnership following a seven-year stint at Celebrity Cruises

APT sales chief encourages agents to grow with river line and operator

APT’s Brad Bennetts noted how selected Danube and Douro departures would be exclusively sold through the UK and Irish market

'We make sure they feel supported': Global Travel Collection on helping agents flourish

Global Collection Travel UK’s vice president Francesca Mendola reveals how she helped to overhaul the brand during the pandemic

The immersive Kissimmee villas that have to be seen to be believed

Clients can get comfortable in a home-away-from-home, surrounded by Florida’s natural beauty and with the major theme parks right on their doorstep.

MSC Cruises to put 2026 ex-UK programme on sale this week

MSC Virtuosa will be based in the UK for summer 2026, sailing a range of two- to 14-night itineraries

Expanding Domes brand to make Santorini debut next month

This new family-friendly resort boasts 50 suites and villas, all of which come with their own private pools and terraces overlooking the Aegean Sea.

Star Clippers to homeport in Grenada during 2025/26 winter season

Line will station one of its vessels in the Caribbean during winter 2025/26

IHG partners with Just a Drop charity to fund safe water projects

The Water for All initiative will be piloted at five of IHG’s voco hotels, including two in the UK

Heathrow predicts busiest-ever year after record February

Some 5.8 million people travelled through Heathrow last month, including more than two million during half-term

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

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

Carrier hails agents for their support in driving operator's best ever year

The tour operator held its annual recognition event at BAFTA, where it thanked agents for their support

TTG Luxury award winner's cruise sector diversity project moves to next level

Founder of The Compass Project Edwina Lonsdale is preparing to add a Southampton school into the project

Celebrity regional sales manager Peter Ryan to join Azamara

Ryan brings more than 25 years’ industry to his new role with Azamara, most recently as regional sales manager at Celebrity Cruises

Scott Dunn parent expands executive team with two new appointments

Sonia Davies and Victoria Courtney will report into Flight Centre Travel Group global leisure chief executive James Kavangh

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

'We don't want to be superheroes: we want to be mums and have a career'

Two new Travel Counsellors share how starting a business at home has ticked all their boxes for being a “working mum”.

Women in Travel marks International Women's Day with new award categories

The new categories honour women in travel tech, mentees and mentors, and diversity, equity and inclusion professional of the year

Balkan Holidays recruits former agent Natasha Smith as new RSM

Smith will look after agents in southern England and south Wales, with Wayne Szczambura taking the lead in central England and north Wales