Weddings & Honeymoons
(Pictured clockwise from top left) hit the pacific highway Abercrombie & Kent’s tailor-made Contemporary and Cutting Edge California is impressively exclusive. Staying in Beverley Hills, couples have a fashion insider take them shopping in Rodeo Drive, then they drive the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco. The honeymoon, from £6,450pp, includes flights, car rental, guiding and activities,
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under bolivian skies Kuoni’s Passport to Luxury honeymoon brochure includes several “Wildcard” suggestions. Among them is an overnight stay in an Airstream caravan on Bolivia’s moon-like Uyuni salt flats, with a chef cooking dinner. A three-day package with a night in a hotel and another in the Airstream costs £1,653pp from La Paz,
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recipe for happiness Among W&O’s more unusual twin-centre honeymoons is 13-day Two Kingdoms, One Journey private tour, linking Thailand with “happiest place on earth” Bhutan. The tour
covers Paro Town, Punakha Valley, Bangkok and Phuket, staying in Como properties throughout. It costs from £4,599pp including flights, accommodation, private guiding and three spa treatments,
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canadian adventure Adventurous clients can explore together on a Canada Wilderness Adventure from Elegant Resorts. After two nights’ room-only at the Rosewood Hotel Georgia, Vancouver they’ll take a seaplane to Clayoquot Wilderness Resort, staying in an en-suite luxury tent. The £6,025pp honeymoon includes flights, UK lounge passes and transfers,
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on the safari trail Simply Luxury by Travel 2’s programme includes the eight-day Elewana Tanzania Safari. It links Arusha, Tarangire national park, Karatu, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Lake Manyara and Serengeti national parks with accommodation in a coffee lodge and a manor. It costs from £4,399pp in April, including most meals and all flights,
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increased the number of travel exhibitors to such an extent now that you’re not getting a return,” he warns. He generally partners with two or three suppliers for a fair, so an agency member may handle a larger show alongside reps from an operator, airline and hotel group. Suppliers have also contributed competition prizes, exclusive deals and value-added offers. Both Travel Designers and the suppliers will each
be looking for a good return on investment, which varies from show to show. “From a small table-top show I would be happy with, say, 10 hot leads and 50-60 email address,” says Harding-McKay. Travel Counsellor Adamson-Brown, once
herself a wedding planner in Cyprus, has arranged around 500 destination weddings and twice as many honeymoons. She attends about two fairs a month in winter,
favouring small events where she’s often the only travel supplier. “There are not so many people coming
through the doors but you’ve got more time with 70
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