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WEEK Contents
NEWS Hot Stories
TTNG in pledge to members after MBO; US specialists ‘reap sales after Virgin move’; Globes brings out stars; terrorism tipped to fuel sales; OTAs’ low deposits
Round-up
A Shinola watch and tickets to Motown: the Musical with Virgin Atlantic page 46
WIN!
Widdowson, easyJet, Monarch, Sandals Special Report
Post Office ranks best-value destinations Globes 2016
Four-page Globes Travel Awards special Face to Face
Tracey Crouch, tourism minister Talk Back
EasyJet, Thomson, bombing, peak sales
NEWS YOU CAN USE Product Celebrity incentive and awards 29
Operators Wendy Wu, Anatolian Sky 30 Cruise Uniworld, Vantage, Hurtigruten 34
FRONTLINE Comment Andy Freeth: keep resolutions 42
Readers’ Lives Leighann Kirby Mystery Shopper Bedford
DESTINATIONS
The US California National Parks: the big six
56 New Orleans: 48 hours in the Big Easy 63
GLOBES 2016
Find out who won what at this year’s star- studded event page 14
Croatia & Eastern Europe Dubrovnik Riviera: other Adriatic pearls 68
BUSINESS NEWS Round-up Travlaw Big Tent Event
WHAT
LUCY DID THISWEEK
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Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley
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Had a great catch-up with Bourne Leisure about Agent Masterchef 2016. It’s going to have a twist! Coming soon...
Chaired Cimtig’s Question Time event, with Advantage, Neilson, Responsible Travel and Norwegian Cruise Line on the panel.
Had to pinch myself as I got to co-host the Globes with the global star that is Dame Edna Everage. So unpredictable, but such good fun!
21 January 2016
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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Stars shine at the Globes T
he January peak period, as it is for the majority of the travel industry, is pretty full-on for us at Travel Weekly. Just two weeks into the new year, we host the biggest
leisure travel event in the industry calendar – and boy, did this year’s Globe Travel Awards live up to its billing (page 14). On the night, we had star turns from Dame Edna Everage, Piers Morgan and The X Factor winner Louisa Johnson, but the real stars of the show are always our guests – both the suppliers who win the much-coveted awards, and the agents who vote in their thousands to reward them. Among the glitz and glamour, a particularly special moment came as we remembered those we have lost from the industry in the past year. You could have heard a pin drop as SuperBreak’s Graham
Balmforth paid tribute to his late friend and colleague Ian Mounser, and helped us raise nearly £6,000 for this year’s Globes charity, Prostate Cancer UK. We also honoured others including the wonderful Ian
Widdowson, of Beaver Travel, who died so tragically just days before the event (page 8). Both Ians epitomised the special people at the heart of our industry, and it was fitting to remember them at such a celebration. In addition to this year’s Globes winners, congratulations also go to the management of The Travel Network Group, who completed their buyout of the business this week (page 4). Let’s hope the deal is a win not
just for the management but also for the members, who are promised some exciting times ahead.
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