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Riverside Luxury Cruises boss on line's surprise expansion and UK growth plans

Gregor Gerlach shares his plans for the line with Harry Kemble

Hays Travel reveals above-industry average customer satisfaction score

Hays’ senior learning and development manager Leanne Cox also revealed the agency’s new service promise

'I’ve realised it’s not about age, it’s about skill sets that drive the business'

Jack Prescott, commercial strategy lead at Travel Counsellors, explains how he’s dealt with imposter syndrome in the boardroom

British Airways' sustainable fuel project gets £9 million cash injection

Project Speedbird has received extra money from the UK government

Hays Travel launches new £5,000 rewards scheme for its agents

Independent challenges its agents to ’be the sunshine’ in their clients’ lives in an effort to drive levels of customer service up further

Fred Olsen super-fan celebrates 2,500 cruise nights with line

Retired fish and chip shop owner Kevin Harrison first sailed with Fred Olsen in 1993

WestJet to launch new Gatwick-Canada route next summer

The St John’s service will operate three times a week on Sundays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 1 May and 25 October 2024

UK sustainable aviation fuel industry receives £53m funding boost

Winning projects span across the country from the Orkney Islands to the north of England and south Wales

West Sussex agency to add more shops and launch homeworking division

Experience It Now Travel director Richard Light is looking at sites to expand his agency business, and hopes to recruit up to 20 homeworkers

Tui grows new-look trade relations team to 17 ahead of peaks

The expanded team will report into Tui head of trade relations Andrew Isherwood

Former Abercrombie & Kent boss Kerry Golds takes up new role

Former Abercrombie & Kent chief tour operating officer reveals new role with lifestyle concierge brand

Celebrity Apex to return to the UK in 2025 after inaugural season next summer

Celebrity Apex will sail a full season from Southampton for the first time next summer before returning the following year

Virgin Atlantic puts back the start of its Sao Paulo service again

Virgin Atlantic has postponed the launch of flights to Brazil’s commercial capital and aviation hub

'Lobbying to get second UK-based Celebrity ship is constant,' says UK boss

Celebrity Cruises last had two ships homeporting in the UK in 2013

Wendy Wu: 'Staying in business for 25 years is nothing – we could go on for 100!'

As Wendy Wu Tours marks its quarter-century, its eponymous founder talks TTG through its remarkable story

Explore set to return to Tunisia after long absence

Adventure specialist relaunches itineraries to Tunisia after a gap of almost seven years

Celestyal to grow fleet with purchase of ex-Carnival Corp ship

The ship will undergo a ’multimillion-euro’ refit ahead of Celestyal’s 2024 programme beginning in March

G Adventures unveils new range of sustainability-focused luxury tours

G Adventures introduces the Geluxe Collection to its range of tours, aiming at those who want an upmarket yet sustainable tour

The short break option that's the best of Britain in miniature

With its heavenly scenery and heritage railways, clients will be chuffed with an Isle of Man holiday.

Riviera Travel announces brochure launch and 40th birthday celebrations in TTG Trade Secrets video

In this edition of TTG Trade Secrets, Riviera Travel’s Thomas Morgan shares the operator’s surprising variety of product, details of a new Worldwide tour and how they’re celebrating its 40th birthday in 2024

Ambitions Travel Recruitment expands team with two hires

Genna Davis has joined the firm as talent acquisition operations specialist and Claire Castro has taken up the role of brand operations manager

Hays seeking to build cruise sales to a third of its business

Cruise is predicted to account for 25% of the agency’s business this year - but head of cruise commercial Catriona Parsons wants more

Clarity Business Travel completes deal to buy TTG Top 50 agency Agiito

As part of the deal, Clarity has also acquired B2B rail ticketing platform Evolvi

New aviation and maritime ministers named following govt reshuffle

Anthony Browne and Lord Davies of Gower will take up the briefs vacated by Baroness Vere