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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

Sarawak sets sights on 30,000 UK visitors for 2024

Sarawak is hopeful of hiking UK visitor numbers by as much as a fifth next year. The Malaysian state said UK visitors in the year to September had increased to 18,883, up from 5,944 last year

Florida to take tourists beyond theme parks with culinary adventures

Food, drink and activities will be central to Florida’s aim of expanding travellers’ horizons beyond the US state’s famed theme parks

Dubai welcomes challenges to its tourism crown from Gulf neighbours

Competition with emerging tourist hotspots such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar will incentivise Dubai to up its game, the tourist board says

Ukraine to work with immediate neighbours 'to restore tourist image'

Ukraine will need to collaborate with neighbouring countries if it wants to regain its status as a holiday destination

New Michelin ratings and sustainability milestone on the menu for Turkiye

TTG talks to Elif Balcı Fisunoğlu, acting general manager for the Türkiye Tourism Promotion and Development Agency, at WTM London to discover the destination is breaking records with visitor arrivals and sustainable initiatives, plus welcoming Michelin to Izmir and Bodrum for the first time

Sarawak smashes arrivals targets and reveals developments for 2024

TTG hears how the largest state in Malaysia is exceeding visitor arrival targets, and how it will tempt travellers in 2024

How Inspiretec is helping agents unleash the power of AI

TTG hears how Inspiretec’s new travel booking platform, launching at WTM London today, will streamline the sales process for both agents and tour operators

EasyJet to launch new Tunisia route and packages in the spring

Liverpool-Enfidha route to take off on 1 April 2024

UK tourism minister insists industry's importance 'recognised across govt'

Sir John Whittingdale said the UK tourism industry isn’t always given the recognition that it deserves

Argentina's sporting and culinary bonafides to boost its tourism

Sports and gastronomy tourism will bolster Argentina’s post-pandemic recovery next year, with the country still feeling the halo effect of its 2022 Fifa World Cup triumph

'I want Peru now' campaign launched to woo back visitors

Peru has launched an international advertising campaign spanning television, radio, and print and social media, titled “I want Peru now” in a bid to recoup visitors lost since the pandemic

Idris Elba steps in to revive Sierra Leone routes

Sierra Leone has enlisted top British actor Idris Elba, whose father is from the country, to help secure direct flights from the UK in an effort to increase visitor numbers

TTC Tour Brands appoints Polly Poulton to expanded sales team

The escorted touring specialist has revealed an expanded trade sales team

Spain looks to reduce destination overload by highlighting other regions

Spain’s focus on growing tourism expenditure over visitor numbers will continue, although the country’s minister of tourism believes there will be opportunities over the next two to three years to introduce new tourists to lesser-visited parts of the country

Valencia enlists Abta's help to relay plans to scrap tourism tax to agents

The new government of the Region of Valencia has rubber-stamped plans to scrap a tourism tax that was set to come into force next year