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'There is great opportunity ahead for agents,' says InteleTravel chief

The US-based homeworking group will soon become a billion-dollar business globally, co-founder and president James Ferrara tells TTG

Iceland declares state of emergency amid 'intense swarm of earthquakes'

Around 1,000 earthquakes have been recorded since midnight on Sunday (12 November), prompting fears of a major volcanic eruption on the country’s southwesterly Reykjanes peninsula

South Africa 'smash and grab' attacks prompt Foreign Office warning

Updated travel advisory issued on Friday makes specific reference to attacks on vehicles

Practising 'business intimacy' critical to travel's future

Firms warmed striking up a personal rapport with clients will be a key pillar of any post-Covid successes they have

Premier Travel to open 27th branch next month

Four ’highly experienced’ employees will be installed at the new Fakenham branch

'Travel isn't yet as universally accessible as it aspires to be'

Two people with lived experience of deafness reflect on Tui’s introduction of British Sign Language, and how the industry still has some way to go to make good on its accessibility pledges

'It's striking how uncommercialised these islands are'

Mary Carlyle, tailor-made reservations specialist at If Only, joined a Cook Islands Tourism fam trip to Rarotonga and Aitutaki earlier this year.

Solmar charts 'Unprecedented rise' in trade enquiries following James Villas closure

Specialist has taken over more than 300 former James Villas’ properties

Ski demand 'explodes' as season opens early following heavy Alpine snowfall

Jet2.com launches ski flight sale as several resorts open slopes ahead of schedule

Iceland's Blue Lagoon shut as FCDO warns of new volcanic activity

Iceland’s Met Office recorded more than 1,000 tremors over a 24-hour period earlier this week

Costa Rica ready to double fam trip opportunities next year

Country’s tourism minister William Rodriguez said the trade was ’so important’ to Costa Rica

Limitless Travel founder honoured for commitment to championing accessibility

Angus Drummond named in disability charity the Shaw Trust’s Disability Power 100

TTG Media backs new DEI-focused travel media internship programme

Step Up will see two successful candidates join the initiative’s partners for paid internship positions

Transatlantic start-up hints at plans to sell through agents

Global Airlines founder James Asquith told WTM London agents would have a role to play in its distribution model

Overtourism 'a bigger sustainability challenge than decarbonising aviation'

Former Abta chair Martin Brackenbury tells WTM London overtourism has become the industry’s biggest barrier to becoming truly sustainable

The tours that are a lifeline to independent British businesses

Booking small group tours of rural Britain can help provide crucial support to independent businesses, tour operator Rabbie’s tells TTG

Sunvil launches Cuba, new Greek island and expanded Albania programme

Operator reveals new additions to its European and Latin American programmes for 2023/24

Ex-Cook agent died of carbon monoxide poisoning, inquest hears

Susan Cooper, 63, was on holiday with her husband John when the tragic incident occurred in August 2018

Tui stresses importance of indie agents as summer 2025 goes on sale

Third-party agents ‘vital to us’ says Tui after renewing its courtship of trade

Abtarians Society signs off with £18,000 Abta LifeLine donation

The group, set up in 2000 for ex-Abta council and committee members, and senior staff, is being wound up owing to declining numbers

Norfolk agent Lisa Webster named Tui Agent of the Year

Webster joined Tui in January 2020 without any previous experience in the travel sector after seeing a job post on LinkedIn

C&M Travel Recruitment adds Pamela Harrison to senior appointments team

Originally from Malta, Harrison moved to the UK 15 years ago and first started working as a travel assistance coordinator at Travel Guard

Tui launches Newcastle-Cape Verde flights as part of service ramp-up

According to commercial director Phillip Iveson, the new route will give people in the north-east “more choice and flexibility” when choosing a holiday

Chile targets longer stays and more British Airways airlift in 2024

Chilean Tourism Board’s national director Cristobal Benitez Villafranca hopeful persuading BA to extend its current four-times-weekly Santiago route to seven-times-weekly