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6O DESTINATION DIALOGUE Check out our Latin America Travel Guide launch party and quiz. Read all about it and test yourself!


62 WISE COUNSEL Barbara Charlton's new tour operator of the month award


65 COMPETITIONS Be in it to win it! All the best competitions and incentives in one place. Enter now!


66 ON LOCATION Agents see it for themselves: KwaZulu- Natal, Elite Resorts and Buccament Bay


NEWS


63 IN THE NEWS 64 AGENT TRAINING


Favourite USA takes to the road


BY JULIE BAXTER Visit USA has been out on the road bringing together over 300 agents and a selection of key American suppliers. A broad range of exhibitors toured


WISE UP ON THE WEB! Be in the know with Selling Long Haul's


online travel trade training partner, now offering training on more than 100 products and destinations...


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TALKING SHOP appears in every issue of Selling Long Haul. It is your opportunity to tell us and your fellow retailers what you have been up to. Have you been on any fams, attended a conference, hosted a theme evening at your agency or sold an unusual holiday? Or maybe your shop is selling travel a little differently to your competitors? Or, do you have a strong view on one of the industry’s burning issues? We want to know!! Please send your news, views and photos to Talking Shop, Selling Long Haul, Suffolk House, George Street, Croydon, Surrey, CR9 1SR Tel: 020 8649 7233 Fax: 020 8649 7234. Or email steve.hartridge@bmipublishing.co.uk


London, Manchester and Bristol to spread the word on product and promotions currently drawing the crowds across The Pond. At each venue more than 100 travel agents enjoyed an evening of destination and product updates, quizzes, spot prizes and entertainment, all introduced by Master of Ceremonies Nigel McShine-Jones. Agents also had the chance to win prizes including flights to the USA, with


IN BRIEF


New AITO members Hyde Barker Travel and Feherty


Travel have joined AITO. Hyde Barker was recently taken over by Barbara Cray and John Lightwood who have a strong track record in tour operations, active travel and specialist destinations. Feherty Travel prides itself on offering independent advice. www.aitoagents.com


Tailor Made turns to the trade Tailor Made Travel has launched


its first brochure since merging with Connections. The Canada & Alaska programme can now be booked by the trade and includes a wide range of adventure and wildlife experiences, epic rail journeys, self-drives and added-value accommodation. www.tailor-made.co.uk


Travel 2 turns 30! Travel 2 plans to roll out a series of


promotions and incentives in January to mark its 30th birthday. Visit www. travel2.com for further information or follow the operator’s news on Twitter – @T2News – which provides updates on all news, views, incentives, offers, competitions and FAMs. www.travel2.com


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accommodation and attraction tickets. The aim of the roadshow was to


stress the message that the USA remains one of the world’s most popular and exciting holiday destinations – and the organisers were pleased to see it was definitely still a favourite sell for top agents too. The USA was recently voted


favourite destination for 2011 in a poll taken among the 25,000 readers of the Daily Telegraph. Asked about their likes and dislikes


when going abroad and about their travel habits, readers placed the USA top of the pile, ranking it above even France and Spain.


Make sure you know what all the


fuss is about by training on the USA. The bronze, silver or gold level modular training can help you get a handle on all the highlights and better sell the huge diversity of the destination. To support agents further the Visit


USA Association in the UK has recently updated and refined its online US Travel Specialist training programme – which is available free of charge to UK travel agents. For more information and a gallery of pictures from the roadshows: www.visitusa.org.uk www.visitusatraining.com


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