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Royal's Europe chief said the cruise sector was working to understand how it would adapt in “a world pre-vaccine”
Agents ‘must not be passive’ or cruise capacity ‘will fill’, Royal boss warns
Ben Bouldin predicted a broadening of the booking curve and urged the trade to capitalise on lower prices and additional capacity across the river and ocean cruise sectors
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‘Exceptional’ wave period returning river cruise to pre-pandemic levels
Delegates at the 2023 Clia Riverview Conference were urged to focus on product over price when selling a river cruise
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Three ways to capitalise on the river cruise market in 2023
Delegates at the Clia Riverview Conference were urged to ‘make their own luck’ to gain new river cruise business in 2023
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Lack of temporary workers stymying US tourism rebound
US Travel Association urges US government to address barriers to filling 1.7 million leisure and hospitality vacancies
Loganair to restart Donegal-Glasgow service this summer
Loganair to resume island services after strike breakthrough
Services from Inverness to Kirkwall, Sumburgh, Stornoway and Benbecula “as soon as it is practical to do so”
Heathrow welcomed 61.6 million passengers in December 2022 (Credit: Heathrow airport)
‘Smooth’ half-term getaway augers well for Easter, says Heathrow
Britain’s busiest airport welcomed 5.2 million passengers in February, only around 200,000 shy of 2019 and 2020 levels
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Aito members gain point-of-sale access to verified carbon offsets
Fenix Carbon has created an exclusive portfolio of offsets for Aito’s 120 members, and provide training, webinars and consultation to assist with adoption
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Which? calls for package travel protections to be retained
Consumer group fears rules could be “watered down” in government review
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The selfless agent who gifted a trip of a lifetime to their colleague
"Jane really deserves it – I want her to take her husband and have an amazing time."
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Luton airport set to launch ‘game-changing’ train service
The Luton Dart shuttle will replace current bus transfers to the airport
TTG Media has forged a partnership with sustainability consultancy TerraVerde (Credit: Noah Buscher / Unsplash)
Clia launches new sustainability toolkit
The new online source of information for stakeholder communities is accessible in six languages
Text For Champagne! With Virgin Voyages
Virgin Voyages offers agents champagne in new text message competition
In this innovative new competition agents answer questions via text to be in with a chance of winning a bottle of champagne from Virgin Voyages
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UKinbound chief receives OBE at Windsor Castle
Joss Croft attended the royal residence earlier this week where he was presented with the medal
"I am a travel agent and my other job is…"
"I am a travel agent and my other job is…"
InteleTravel has 11,500 agents in the UK and many combine their work as a travel advisor with other jobs.
Birmingham Airport Snow March 2023 (Credit: @BHX_Official / Twitter)
Heavy snow forces airports to close runways
Transport hubs in central and northern England hit by severe weather
Norse Atlantic Airways is permitted to fly transatlantic from Spring 2022
New UK-US carrier to reveal first details of winter schedule this month
Norse Atlantic Airways hopeful of transitioning to profitability by the end of the year
Clive Wratten says BTA Cares will "throw its arms" around business travel workers
HS2 delay risks destroying govt's levelling up agenda, BTA chief warns
The government confirmed construction of the Birmingham-Crewe leg of the new network will be delayed for two years to cut costs
Travel leaders were united in their damnation of the government's 'amber plus' category (Credit: iStock)
UK tourists would support tourism levy for nature, poll finds
The majority of survey respondents said they would pay between £2 and £10 to stay overnight in a UK national park
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Solmar expands into Ionian Coast amid 'significant' growth plans
The Midland-based firm has added 25 villas in the resorts of Parga, Preveza and Sivota Bay to its portfolio
Interest rates have risen to their highest level since 2008 (Credit: Pixabay / Pexels)
Holidaymakers to up holiday spend this year despite cost of living squeeze
New data reveals 85% of 2,700 consumers intend to spend the same or more on their travel in 2023 compared with 2022
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Silversea introduces direct London-Arctic charter flights
The new services will be available for 28 Arctic and Greenland sailings in 2023 and 2024
Leger Holidays is expanding its fleet of Luxuria coaches
Leger Holidays adds four new tours to Grand Explorer collection
The holidays are longer in duration and make it easier to visit destinations which are ’a little out of the ordinary’
Flights to North African destinations experienced the greatest rise in popularity compared to 2019
EasyJet puts winter 2023/24 schedule on sale to 125 destinations
Seats to 125 destinations from the UK are now available to book between 1 December 2023 and 23 March 2024
Seashore was christened at Ocean Cay (Credit: Conrad Schutt / MSC Cruises)
MSC Cruises increases trade commission on shore excursions
The line has increased commission rates from 5% to 15% for northern European sailings during summer 2023 and winter 2023/2024