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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

Nine things we took away from WTM London 2023

Just how big are Jet2’s ambitions for Morocco? Will the EU’s Etias scheme be derailed by scam websites? And will the Grand Egyptian Museum finally open its doors next year?

Spain plays down likely Etias impact as 'fake website' warnings emerge

The UK is one of 60 non-EU countries that will need to apply for Etias travel authorisation once it launches

Tenerife aiming to take Brits beyond beaches and court new markets

The destination is looking to improve connectivity from France and North America

Watch: Malta focuses on screen tourism, art and events for 2024

TTG speaks to Tolene van der Merwe, Visit Malta’s director for the UK and Ireland at WTM

Hays IG chief Natasha Marson to join easyJet holidays

Nastasha Moran will join easyJet holidays on 18 December to oversee the operator’s sales team and work with more than 5,000 travel agents

Trade ‘ridiculously important’ to Celebrity Cruises, says president

Laura Hodges Bethge reaffirmed the line’s commitment agents as it took delivery of newest ship, Celebrity Ascent

Slow travel, longer stays and ‘set-jetting’: Tourism Ireland gears up for bumper 2024

Ed Robertson speaks to Tourism Ireland’s chief executive designate Alice Mansergh to discover what’s new in the destination this year and in 2024

Ex-Cook agent died after hotel fumigated for bedbugs, inquest told

Susan Cooper was on holiday with husband John Cooper in Egypt’s Hurghada when the incident happened in 2018

Jamaica fixes sights on growing arrivals to five million by 2025

Jamaica is to reveal the next steps in its ambitious tourism growth plans as it seeks to keep ’momentum’ going for a full post-pandemic recovery’

Incredible Journeys’ latest campaign sends sales records tumbling

500%+ increase in number of agents booking with the trade-only brand following two-week ’September peaks’ campaign

EasyJet holidays boss: ‘Claims all-inclusives can't be sustainable are utter nonsense’

Garry Wilson, chief executive of the UK’s third-largest tour operator, said such criticisms ’have frustrated him for years’

EasyJet puts a dozen new routes on sale for summer 2024

Southampton-Alicante and Liverpool-Enfidha are some of the new routes put on sale by easyJet

WTM London 2023: Official Daily Day three

Pitch perfect. Delegates tune into business opportunities on the final day of WTM London 2023.

Jet2 makes five-year commitment to invest in Moroccan tourism development

As part of the partnership, the airline and tour operator will work alongside Morocco’s tourism office on widespread marketing campaigns