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Funway takes £50 slice off rates of Big Apple breaks Funway Holidays has launched a New York sale with savings of £50 on city-break packages. Bookings must be made by the end of September through funway4agents.
co.uk for travel up to December 31, 2015. Agents should quote NY50. Offers include three nights at the two-star Comfort Inn Lower East Side, with flights from Heathrow for £545, down from £595.
funway4agents.co.uk
Virgin Limited Edition launches Get Savvy tool Virgin Limited Edition has launched Get Savvy e-learning site to help agents learn about the products offered by Sir Richard Branson’s collection of properties. The programme offers modules and question-and-answer sections. Agents also have the chance to become a Savvy Star of the Year and win a holiday to one of the properties, which include Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, Ulusaba Private Game Reserve and Mont Rochelle in South Africa, and Kasbah Tamadot in Morocco.
vlesavvy.com
Premier Holidays unveils Southern Africa brochure Premier Holidays has introduced a standalone brochure for southern Africa for 2015 following increased demand. The Southern Africa programme now offers a wider range of options in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Victoria Falls, Tanzania and Zanzibar. New areas in South Africa include Mossel Bay, George, Port Elizabeth and Drakensberg. Premier plans to hold events next month with South African Tourism to promote its programme.
trade.premierholidays.co.uk
Treyn rebrands as Rail Discoveries and adds host of tours for 2015
Great Rail Journeys has rebranded its trade-focused sister brand Treyn as Rail Discoveries. The operator said the old brand
Newmarket agency sales manager Richard Forde presents the operator’s new brochure to Jennie Watson and David Smith, both of Village Travel, Cheam
Juliet Dennis Newmarket Holidays consolidates
Escorted tours specialist Newmarket Holidays is to consolidate all its air holidays in one 228-page brochure and is offering its first ever price promise.
The operator has
previously offered separate regional brochures as well as destination- led, short-haul and long-haul brochures for its air packages. These have been
breaks by air into a single brochure
The price promise means the operator will refund the difference if the same holiday is found cheaper elsewhere. Group Marketing director Phil O’Sullivan said: “We have taken this stance because we know we are cheaper.”
228
Number of pages in Newmarket’s
new consolidated brochure
dropped in favour of a “big book” featuring more four and five-star accommodation alongside fewer “quality” three-star hotels, giving the programme a more upmarket look and feel.
A file copy of the Escorted
Holiday Collection 2015-16 brochure will be sent to every agent in the UK for the first time when it launches on September 1. New destinations include Sri
Lanka, the Baltics and Barcelona. New tours include a 14-night Top to Toe tour of Italy, from £1,249; two cruise and tour breaks in the US; and a Jewels of the Baltic tour.
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travelweekly.co.uk — 28 August 2014
Newmarket’s decision to produce a single range of escorted tours worldwide is in part to improve racking in
travel agencies, which account for
a “significant” level of sales, as well as to cater for
more of the varied destinations on regular clients’ wish lists. O’Sullivan added: “We were trying to give our trade partners a lot of literature, but a lot of agencies have reduced racking space and couldn’t rack it all.” The operator also hopes the
move will improve awareness of its product range, which spans day trips to Lapland to long-haul tours in South America. “Agents will now be able to see
our full range of tours”, he said.
newmarketholidays.co.uk
had caused some confusion among customers, while Rail Discoveries represented a clearer reflection of both its “quality and value”. Treyn was launched just before the operator began selling through agents in 2008. The new brand, which follows customer feedback surveys, will still focus on the trade. Its range of escorted, standard-class rail holidays packaged with three-star hotels remains the same. The new website is
raildiscoveries.com. The operator has changed its name at the same time as launching its summer 2015 programme, which features six new worldwide tours, 17 new tours in Europe and the UK, five new fly- rail tours and three new rail cruises. New itineraries include a
15-day Highlights of Vietnam & the Mekong Delta tour; nine-day Discover Beijing, Xi’an & Shanghai; and 11-day India’s Golden Triangle & Shimla Extension. Also new for 2015 are special-
interest tours, such as a Royal Gardens of Germany itinerary, and more all-inclusive holidays, such as The Mont Blanc Express.
raildiscoveries.com
New rail tour: Mekong Delta
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