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traveluni.com News update | Autumn 2010 Travel Uni backs agent campaign
Travel Uni has thrown its weight behind the exciting: WE'RE BACKING AGENTS campaign which launches in this issue of Selling Short Breaks & Holidays. Associate director Sally Oakey said:
“This is a great idea and long overdue. Agents who train with Travel Uni regularly report back to us on just how successful they are at selling short breaks and short haul holidays – especially after they have completed training on the destination or visited it." Among Travel Uni’s most popular training programmes are those on Tunisia, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Costa Brava, Italy and Aquila Resorts (Greece) – and all offer huge sales opportunities for agents.
Training works – it’s official!
Research conducted by Travel Uni has generated some pretty conclusive results on how effective and financially worthwhile training can be for agents. Well over 95 per cent of 150 agents
surveyed reported that completing a Travel Uni programme had made a direct impact on their ability to sell the destination they studied. Over 90 per cent also stated they had subsequently made ‘lots’ of sales to that destination. Agents rated the online training as
an effective way to quickly and easily increase their product knowledge and secure sales by using the sales tips. Many continued to refer to the programmes as an information resource after training and appreciated the fam trip opportunities on offer.
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Sally added: “There is no question that
short haul sales can be equally as lucrative as long haul ones and those agents who work to develop these sales deserve just as much support and recognition. We are natural partners for such a campaign because backing agents is exactly what we do through our training programmes. We wish the campaign every success and will be supporting it with ideas and updates on the campaign website."
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STOP PRESS Visit Iceland and Costa Brava tourist board are actively supporting the WE'RE BACKING AGENTS campaign. Join the campaign at:
www.shortbreaksholidays. com and you will be entered into a draw to win a trip to the Costa Brava (page 5). Visit Iceland will stage the campaign's first Destination Dialogue event, in association with Selling Short Breaks & Holidays, to help forge new ways to support agent sales. Learn more about the event on page 47.
Trade gets to know Djerba Island
The Tunisian National Tourist Office and Tunisair joined forces to host a mega fam trip to the island of Djerba. Some 87 guests were invited on the
trip to commemorate Tunisair’s inaugural flight from London Gatwick to Djerba island via Monastir. The group included tour operators
Solos Holidays, Exodus, Small Families, Cosmos, Thomas Cook, Tunisia Firs, Just Sunshine, Airworld, Olympic Holidays, Cox & Kings Travel, Arab Tours and Poppy Travel. The guests visited Djerba island to
explore the market towns of Houmt Souk and Miduon, the pottery village of Guellela and the crocodile park and museum. They also had the chance to test out thalasotherapy treatments for
themselves and explored the desert town of Tataouine. Jet2 has also opened new routes
from Leeds, Newcastle and Manchester to Monastir in Tunisia. Visitor numbers were up by 22.5 per cent from Jan-May 2010 compared with the same period in 2009.
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