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Explora Journeys launches co-branded agent websites and unveils new sailings

Agents can now co-brand a client-facing website, as the line announces new sailings for Explora I and Explora II

Travel reaping rewards of positive 'turning point for consumer confidence'

Last month, year-on-year spending with travel agents increased by 9.2%, according to new data from Barclays, which said it had observed ’a turning point for consumer sentiment and confidence’

Seabourn hails trade partnerships as 2024 set to hit company record for bookings

Seabourn reveals a record-breaking 2024 for bookings and stresses the importance of trade relationships

'What I learned booking my own destination wedding'

Wotton Travel agent Rachel Ball used her expertise as an agent to book her own wedding in the Caribbean to husband Matthew – she shares their story with us.

Watch: Why an enriching tour is the best way to see Sri Lanka

TTG teamed up with G Touring (Just You and Travelsphere) to take agents on a sustainability-focused fam trip and help them discover Sri Lanka in a way that benefits people and the planet – and promises richer experiences.

8 easy ways you and your clients can help preserve and protect Mallorca

The Mallorca Tourism Board is inviting agents to sign its new, eight-point Mallorca Responsible Tourism Pledge

'Travel trends for 2024, and how agents can make the most of them'

Discover some of the key trends for 2024, and how you can apply them to your business

On the Beach's B2B growth 'slower than expected' despite long-haul and premium surge

The OTA has pinned the slow down on the B2B market becoming ’more crowded’ as ’tour operators and low-cost airlines compete for share of high street agent and homeworker business’

Latam Airlines restores direct air link between the UK and Peru

Five-times-weekly Heathrow-Lima service inaugurated at the weekend

'Our goal is to take everything off of the plate' of luxury travel advisors, says Internova boss

Internova Travel Group boss says the business exists to make its advisors lives easier and has launched many initiatives to do so

Baldwins to expand into new regions and launch homeworking division

Kent and Sussex-based miniple opens new branch in Grantham, with five more to follow over the next 18 months – along with the launch of a homeworking business

Why agents can't bank on travel being 'insulated' from the cost of living crisis forever

Despite an encouraging post-Covid rebound, and the recent Autumn Statement giving the nation’s finances a little boost, travel’s recovery remains fragile heading into Christmas and the new year

Torey Kings-Hodkin to join Disney Destinations as trade sales chief

Royal Caribbean’s head of sales will become Disney’s EMEA trade sales and marketing director early next year

'London’s most incredible new hotel for decades': Checking in to Raffles London at the OWO

TTG Luxury explores the capital’s iconic new hotel

Raffles London at The OWO's MD Philippe LeBoeuf on his career, building a team and going 'the extra 5%'

LeBoeuf tells TTG Luxury how his career led him here, and what it takes to run such a hotel

Watch: Discover the highlights of Pittsburgh, and how to sell them

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Travel Network Group to stream conference as host city Munich hit by snow

Only around half of the more than 500 delegates are expected to be able to conference in person following record snowfall in Munich over the weekend

Tui launches accessibility guides for customers at 200 of its hotels

Tui has released Detailed Access Guides for an initial 200 hotels in its partnership with AccessAble, with another 200 hotels to be surveyed in 2024

Travel Counsellors membership tips record 2,000 business owners

The homeworking giant has recruited 300 new members over the past year, taking its membership past 2,000

How one agent is helping new clients overcome their travel fears

A Holiday Village homeworker has joined forces with a hypnotherapist to offer free workshops to help prospective clients deal with travel-related stressors

Glasgow airport reopens after heavy snow as UK braces for more adverse weather

Airport authorities said on Sunday (3 December) the runway was ’fully operational’ after weekend snow

Govt promises more resilient, crisis-ready airport slot regime

Aims include limiting slot leasing to stop airlines ’monopolising’ slots to boost competition and reduce prices, and creating new powers to respond to crises

Multi-million investment to put Ireland’s Waterford airport on international flight map

Prime minister Leo Varadkar said the development would open south-eastern Ireland to many more visitors

How to sell sustainable travel as a luxury specialist

Two luxury agents reveal how TTG’s Sustainable Travel Ambassadors programme has helped them promote and sell more responsible holidays