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news to use REPORTING ON THE TOP NEWS STORIES OVER THE PAST MONTH Pass it on! The chances are that once you’ve read
your copy of Selling Long Haul, another 3.8 people will read it too! That was one of the key findings in a
recent research study that gives Selling Long Haul a total readership of more than 70,000 people. Now in its 22nd year, Selling Long Haul
retains its role as an integral part of travel agents’ and homeworkers’ need to keep fully up-to-date with new developments in long-haul travel. Some 64% of agents/homeworkers
read Selling Long Haul at least regularly with a further 26% reading it occasionally. A printed copy is favoured by 75% with 26% reading online (a few do both!). Close to 60% of agents consider Selling
Long Haul ‘very useful’ and a further 39% consider it ‘fairly useful’.
Machu Picchu needs advance planning
Costa Rica's rise Costa Rican ground operator
Horizontes – which is already working with the likes of Abercrombie & Kent – is raising its UK profile and looking to align itself more closely with the trade. “Our country represents five per cent
of the world’s biodiversity within a very small territory. This, plus the education of our people in taking care of our environment, makes Costa Rica a unique destination for eco-tourism,” says Horizontes’ general manager Wilfrid Aiello. “We want to get UK travellers under
the skin of our beautiful country by enjoying the different tailor-made holidays."
www.horizontes.com
Western & Oriental Travel Latin America is urging travellers to Peru to book well in advance in order to secure entrance tickets to Machu Picchu after the authorities moved to place restrictions on the number of daily visitors who can visit the ancient but fragile site. The permitted maximum daily number
of visitors has been set at 2,500 per day, almost half the previous figure. During the festivals and celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the discovery of
IN BRIEF
ATE will head to Perth Australia’s biggest travel trade show,
the Australian Tourism Exchange, (ATE) returns to Perth next year (June 15-21). ATE is integral to Australia remaining on track to meet its 2020 visitor and expenditure targets. Tourism Australia will again ‘sponsor ‘Aussie Specialist agents to attend the show.
www.australia.com
Kiwi lodge is a healing hotel New Zealand’s Split Apple Retreat, located on the edge of the Abel Tasman National Park, is the first New Zealand member of Healing Hotels of the World, an exclusive network of 60 worldwide luxury hotels, resorts and retreats offering the highest standards of holistic health, healing and spa programmes.
www.splitappleretreat.com
Christmas is coming! Thoughts of Christmas might seem a
little premature but some things just can’t be delayed – like the details of the annual Selling Long Haul Christmas party So, save the date: Wednesday December 14. The venue will again be the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel in London so we look forward to seeing you. Visit
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Machu Picchu last month, many visitors found themselves disappointed as the maximum capacity was reached and people had to be turned away without being able to reach the iconic citadel. The operator offers a range of Peru options, including hotels, lodges, treks, train travel and escorted tours, and can pre-book entrance tickets to Machu Picchu. A 12-night Wonders of Peru tour starts around £2070pp, including flights, transfers and a guide.
www.WandOTravel.com
Faraway places are premier
BY REBECCA NICHOLLS Premier Holidays has added
Bermuda, The Bahamas and Tanzania, plus new hotels in Thailand and South Africa, to its 2012 Faraway Brochure. “Thailand offers some of the best value
for money right now of any long haul destination, which is why we have included a new platinum hotel in Krabi and four new hotels in Bangkok,” said David Carlaw, Premier’s head of Faraway Product. Forward bookings for Thailand in 2012 are up 46 per cent, year on year, he added. Another Asian destination whose star
is on the rise is Indo-China. Carlaw said sales of the three-centre option of Cambodia (with Angkor Wat on everyone’s list), Vietnam and Laos were up 32 per cent. Bookings will be further boosted when Vietnam Airlines starts non-stop flights between London and Hanoi and Saigon this month (Sept). The two new tours in Tanzania are ‘Highlights of Tanzania’, with a three-night tour of Ngorongoro, Serengeti and Lake Manyara, from £785 and ‘Tanzania Discovery’, six nights in Lake Mantara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Arusha, for £1,169pp. Both packages include three- star accommodation throughout the trip. New to Premier’s Africa offering are
the Protea Breakwater Lodge in Cape Town, Hyatt Regency Oubaai on the Garden Route and the Sultan Sands and Baraza Resort and Spa in Zanzibar.
www.trade.premierholidays.co.uk
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