the review
Delta and Virgin grow transatlantic services
DELTA Air Lines and Virgin Atlantic’s joint venture partnership is set to deliver up to five new daily transatlantic
flights in summer
2015 compared with this summer. The proposed schedule will include a new daily service from Heathrow to Detroit; an additional daily
service from Heathrow to
New York, JFK; an additional daily service from Heathrow to Los Angeles; an additional daily service during the summer season from Heathrow to Atlanta; an additional summer seasonal service from Heathrow to San Francisco, flying five times a week; and an additional daily service during the winter season from Heathrow to Miami. Also on the cards is a ‘transfer of operations’
between the two
airlines that will see Delta fly one of
Virgin’s existing Heathrow to
Newark services and Virgin fly a daily service between Manchester and Atlanta. In addition, Delta Air Lines will launch a new daily service between Manchester and New York JFK in Summer 2015. Across the joint venture, Delta
and Virgin will now offer 10 daily services from London to the New York area.
delta.com
SET-JET TO THE US WITH the winter months fast approaching, we can take some solace in the various new programmes that will hit our TV screens as we curl up on the sofa wrapped in blankets (think Homeland, X Factor
, Strictly , Dallas).
It’s also a prolific season for Hollywood blockbuster premieres on the bigger screens, encouraging some cosy cinema nights. If escaping the gloomy UK winter is a
VISITORS to Wilmington, on the North Carolina coast, can now go behind the scenes at the
The weekend tours were being offered largest film studio
complex east of California after EUE/ Screen Gems Studios resumed tours of its sound stages and 50-acre lot. In addition to walking the 10-stage
working lot, visitors will go behind the scenes of the CBS series Under the Dome and see a visual history of the North Carolina film and television industry in the theatre where famous producers, directors and actors have reviewed footage shot at the studio.
three times a day throughout the summer with, at the timeof press,
an
autumn schedule still to be determined. EUE/Screen Gems hosted tours for 15
years but ended them in 2011 when the popular US series One Tree Hill wrapped up production. The complex, which opened in 1984, has hosted more than 350 productions, including recent projects such as Iron Man 3, The Conjuring, We’re the Millers, Eastbound and Down and Sleepy Hollow.
studios.euescreengems.com;
visitnc.com
Virgin Holidays heads to the regions
VIRGIN Holidays is to offer holidays to Orlando and Las Vegas from Northern
Ireland and Scotland
respectively after Virgin Atlantic added flights from Belfast (to Orlando) and Glasgow to (Las Vegas) to its summer 2015 schedule. Seven nights in Orlando, at the 3V+ Maingate Lakeside Resort, and car hire, with flights from Belfast, start from £999pp, based on two adults
IN BRIEF TrekAmerica goes for a song:
TrekAmerica has launched its new All- American playlist, created entirely by the operator and its customers. Created on Spotify, the playlist is made up of over 100 feel-good road trip tunes, including Sweet Home Alabama, California Soul and Send Me On My Way.
trekamerica.co.uk
USA pavilion for Destinations 2015: Visit USA will again be bringing US exhibitors together in 2015 in a special USA Pavilion, this time including both Manchester and London. Destinations Manchester will be held at Manchester Event
City (January 15-18) and
Destinations London at London Olympia (January 29 -February 1).
Visitusa.org.uk
Four Points doubles in Nashville:
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide has opened the second Four Points by Sheraton hotel in greater Nashville, Tennessee. The 101-room Four Points by Sheraton Nashville-Airport, a former Wyndham hotel, is close to the airport and within easy reach of downtown.
fourpoints.com/nashvilleairport
sharing. The price is based on a June 25 2015 departure. Seven nights in Las Vegas, at the 3V Circus Circus Hotel and Casino, with flights from Glasgow, start from £999, for an October 1 2015 departure. The Belfast-Orlando service will operate from June 25 to July 16 2015; the Glasgow-Las Vegas service will run from September 10 to October 1 2015.
Vhols4agents.couk
o Kill a Mockingbird in Alabama to Fight Club in Delaware to Gone with the Wind in Georgia or Brokeback Mountain in Wyoming, there is a set-to-jet-to for all tastes and ages. This year sees the return of Hollywood’s Dolphin T
priority, however, no country in the world is better for a touch of film tourism, or ‘set- jetting’, than the original home of the motion picture: the US. It is actually possible to travel through all 50 US states via 50 celebrated films! From T
ale 2, which will hit UK cinemas on
October 3. The first film told the real-life story of ‘Winter’ the dolphin and her prosthetic tail. Set in St. Pete/Clearwater, a sun-drenched peninsula on Florida’s West Coast, the success of Dolphin T
ale back in 2011 is clear
evidence of just how appealing film tourism can be for holidaymakers, as well as how beneficial it can be for a destination. In St. Pete/Clearwater, all sectors of the
local economy, from hotels to taxis, felt the benefits of Dolphin T
the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, noticing the biggest impact of the film’s popularity. The destination is anticipating an influx of
visitors and an economic boost from the ‘Winter effect’ of this second instalment, projected at $5 billion (£3.13 billion) by 2016. If you, as travel experts, wow them with the prestige (or infamy) of a destination or location they have witnessed or connected with on the big screen, you may reap the financial rewards of extra bookings.
ale, with Winter’s home, Behind the scenes in NC JAMES BROOK
Managing Director Rooster PR
49 TOURISM UPDATE
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