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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

G Touring to recruit for four new trade sales team roles

Travelsphere and G Touring parent confirms plans to recruit a trade sales director, two new key account managers and a trade sales marketing executive

Carol Cabezas stands down as president of Azamara amid leadership shake-up

Small-ship specialist names new executive leadership team

Designer revealed for this year's Claridge's Christmas tree

The Mayfair hotel has partnered with Louis Vuitton for another famous Christmas collaboration

Kerzner International ramps up UK sales team

Former Elegant Resorts head of business development will join the growing hotel group

Sri Lanka's Sun Siyam Pasikudah poised to reopen after $1.5m 'transformation'

Sun Siyam Resorts hopes the reopening of Sun Siyam Pasikudah later this month will give Sri Lanka’s east coast a boost

Long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum finally set to open next summer

Egypt’s minister of tourism said a soft opening of some parts would happen “probably later this year, maybe January”

Celebrity Cruises reveals name of fifth Edge-series ship

Celebrity Xcel will offer Caribbean sailings during its debut season

St Helena to benefit from increased airlift from November 2024

St Helena will gain new airlift to and from Cape Town next November, courtesy of Airlink, following renewed demand for travel to the subtropical island, as well as a second weekly Johannesburg later this month

Seychelles looks to distinguish its offering by grading guesthouses

The Seychelles Ministry of Tourism plans to start grading smaller guesthouses as part of its strategy to differentiate the destination from its Indian Ocean counterparts