talkingshop the SeCtiOn FOr agentS abOUt agentS
Double agents pg 48 Steve Guy and Karen Allen are
talking short breaks
Travel Uni pg 49 "We're fully behind the 'We're
backing Agents' campaign"
Win! Win Win pg 50 Discover Israel's many 'hidden
gems' on a week's trip for two Red Sea in the swim
Join your new online community
Red Sea Holidays has launched its biggest-ever brochure. Holidays to the Red Sea and Egypt are available from nine UK airports with a lead-in price of £399pp for a seven-night all- inclusive stay at the Sharm Resort Hotel, departing in December. Early booking offers are available for
summer bookings made by October 31 – offering £100 discount per booking on all Red Sea Hotels and Grand Cruises holidays, and a £50 per booking discount on all other holidays.
www.redseaholidays.co.uk
Above: Karen Cunningham, Designer Travel, Ramsbottom, and (right) Zoe Holt, Red Sea Holidays
Cruising is the Future
Future Travel’s Emma Sanger joined with Celebrity Cruises to host some of its top clients at an exclusive lawn tea party onboard Celebrity Eclipse. Over 25 cruise fans joined the Future
Travel team and Celebrity Cruises' head of field sales, Michael English, on the ship for a summer picnic lunch on its grass lawn.
The group enjoyed sandwiches and fruit skewers – and the obligatory summer glass of Pimms - as well as a special ‘hot glass’ show. The tea party was joined by the deputy
mayor of Salisbury, councillor John Abbott, along with guests from the Salisbury Chamber of Commerce and Salisbury Rotary Club.
www.celebritycruises.co.uk
Selling Short Breaks & Holidays is pioneering a series of Destination Dialogue events for our WE'RE BACKING AGENTS campaign. First will be an event collaborating
with Visit iceland on October 11; followed in November by Portugal. Destination Dialogues will bring
key destinations, suppliers and proactive agents together. If you're an independent agent eager to promote and sell more short haul destinations and want to join us in an informal
knowledge-building and brainstorming session with leading suppliers get in touch. The event will be an intimate affair, designed to give YOU a chance to get an overview of the market, an update on product and a chat through the best ways to sell the destination. To be a part of it contact
Julie.Baxter@
bmipublishing.co.uk or 020 8649 7233. For more see: www.
shortbreaksholidays.com
September sees the launch of a unique new online forum for agents selling short breaks and holidays. Be a part of it and you could win a trip to Costa Brava (see page 5). Go online at www.
shortbreakholidays.com, click through to our WE'RE BACKING AGENTS microsite and get involved. Here you will find regularly updated news and product launches relevant to selling this sector and also have the chance to make your own contributions. • You can upload photos of your own UK and short haul trips and share
highlights and sales tips
• You can begin a discussion thread, share your successes or vent your frustrations
• You can read the news and views from our travel agent columnists
• You can get inspired too. Check out our Agents’ Success Stories section
If you sell short breaks or short haul holidays this site is for YOU, about YOU.
Oliver Broad For AITO Specialist Travel Agents "Supporting this campaign is key to
aitO Specialist travel agents; we want to empower our members, and give them the tools to thrive. each aitO agent runs a different business, but they all need to stand out in the marketplace and this campaign will help to differentiate themselves from other agents. High value bookings can occur more often in short breaks, especially when the clients’ demands are more rigid or corporate clients are involved. It's definitely a lucrative sector, not to be overlooked."
Destination Dialogue - Iceland leads the way
Earn a golden ticket
DFDS Seaways has launched a Golden Ticket incentive for agents, with prizes on offer for those who book its Newcastle to Amsterdam or Harwich to Esbjerg routes. Agents who submit booking numbers
to the DFDS' agent website (www.dfds.
co.uk/agent) during September will receive a Golden Ticket, giving them a chance to win either an Apple iPad, an iPod Touch or one of three DAB radios. The more bookings made, the greater the chance of winning.
Below: Co-operative Travel agent, Fallon Scott and assistant store manager, Donna Cunningham with Colin Fawcus of DFDS Seaways Cramlington branch
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