Travel industry news

TikTok: 7 tips to get the most out of the platform agents can no longer afford to ignore

With TikTok users spending upwards of 90 minutes a day on the platform, on average, We Are Llama’s Marta Safin explores some of the ways savvy agents can use it to their advantage

Cash injection set to accelerate 'One A&K' strategy and expansion

$500 million in funding will help plans to streamline and unify the business and build up DMCs, camps, lodges and boats for the brand

Agency to put another £1 million behind multi-million pound recruitment drive

The cash boost extends homeworking and franchise outfit Not Just Travel’s investment in expanding its team to £4.4 million since the start of 2022

WTM London to host 'timely' debate around the transformative potential of AI

This year’s Ministers’ Summit will be moderated by ’a well-known BBC journalist’ and will feature more than 50 tourism leaders from around the world

Dave Ody and team to leave United Parks & Resorts and seek 'new opportunities'

United Parks & Resorts’ UK and Ireland market director Ody said the group had decided ’to take a different direction to manage the UK and Irish source markets for 2025’

Aito members ready to stare down biggest challenges with renewed confidence

Just over half (54%) of Aito members cited supply and demand as their biggest challenge, while 48% said it was competition, but a massive 96% said they expected turnover to increase or stay the same over the next 12 months

Advantage, RateHawk, Intrepid: all the latest travel trade people moves

Intrepid Travel has hired a new chief impact officer, while Exodus Adventure Travels has brought in a new marketing director – these are the latest travel trade people moves agents need to know about

Is it time airlines offered the trade more out-of-range fares?

Agents tell TTG that with customers looking to secure their dream holidays increasingly early, they’re being held back by forward flight availability. But why are airlines so reluctant to extend their schedule windows? Gary Noakes reports

Hayley Morris to leave Titan Travel and succeed Richard Forde at Newmarket Holidays

Morris, who joined the escorted touring specialist from parent Saga in November 2022, will begin at Newmarket on 21 October

New agency boss says late mum 'answered his prayers to find a new site'

Former on-the-road sales manager Wayne Beard opened Pure Joy Escapes in September 2023 and business was booming until it was hit by a structural issue with the chapel where the agency was based

Protected Trust Services takes on Wonderluxe Travel homeworkers

Wonderluxe Travel has been placed into voluntary liquidation after losing a silent partner, who was an investor in the business

Fears of fierce Atlantic hurricane season prompts US travel warning

The Foreign Office has updated its US travel advice after the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast an ’above-normal Atlantic hurricane season’

Virgin Atlantic's Flight 100 sustainable fuel ad claim banned by ASA

Virgin Atlantic has been told not to repeat claims about sustainable aviation fuels made in a radio ad to publicise a special transatlantic flight last year

Clients holding out for late deals even if it costs them, agents say

Agents have told TTG their clients are holding out for deals and leaving it later than ever to book their summer holidays, even if it ends up costing them more money

Spending with travel agents continues to defy slowdown – Barclays

Barclays Consumer Spend shows spending with travel agents is still increasing, bucking a downward trend in card transactions in July

Hays Travel team unhurt after shop vandalised during Sunderland unrest

Hays Travel owner Dame Irene Hays’ daughter Helen Hays said bricks were thrown through the agency’s Vine Place store on Saturday (3 August)

Abta: 'It’s clear many of the industry’s priorities have been heard'

One month to the day since Labour took power after 14 years in opposition, Abta’s director of public affairs Luke Petherbridge assesses the party’s actions since forming a new government – and what its priorities mean for travel’s prosperity

British Airways owner IAG abandons plan to buy Air Europa for second time

British Airways’ owner says demand for travel remains “robust” this year

Jet2holidays doubles apprentice fund available to agents to £1.2 million

Operator launched the scheme last year to help agencies recruit new staff

The sales director reinventing what it means to be ‘on the road’

Anzcro’s Shubhra Halliday hit the road in a Maui motorhome earlier this year to promote the operator’s new New Zealand brochure to agents – she talks TTG’s Harry Kemble through her exciting journey

Emerald Bay closure communicated to agents ‘as soon as possible’ – Sandals

Sandals has told TTG it notified agents of its decision to shut Sandals Emerald Bay in Exuma for a refurb ‘as soon as possible’, with the resort set to reopen after the works under the group’s Beaches brand

Virgin Atlantic to axe Nassau and Providenciales routes in Caribbean shake-up

Virgin Atlantic confirms two route closures as it reshuffles its winter 2024/25 timetable, while extending a South Africa service

Attractions platform Lovetovisit secures another multimillion-pound investment

Lovetovisit, a UK attractions booking portal, has secured more funds after attracting venture capitalists to back its growth

EU airports blast bloc's decision to reinstate 100ml liquid rule from September

The trade body representing European airports said the reintroduction will penalise airports with new C3 scanners ‘operationally and financially’