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Tour guide firm Touriocity aims to sell through trade
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
A bespoke tour guide service is keen to work with travel agents who want to offer added value and customised trips to clients.
Touriocity was founded in 2014
by chief executive Alex Grant and is part-funded by the founders of CarTrawler, Scott Dunn, Context Travel and Attraction Tickets Direct. It works with partners including Gatwick and Mr & Mrs Smith hotel group, and has a white-label offering for hotels and airlines. Touriocity is in talks with an online travel agency, but Grant hopes to establish a closer relationship with high street agents. The company, which sells in the
US, UK and Australia, specialises in affordable, private tailor-made tours in more than 50 cities. Grant said: “We want to build our business with agents. It’s a matter of getting our name out there and seeing what agents
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ROME: Touriocity offers tours in more than 50 cities. Inset: Alex Grant
“We want to build our business with agents. It’s a matter of getting our name out there”
want. We are keen to distribute in as many channels as we can.” The move to work closely
with the trade follows increased demand for customised private tours. “We are finding more people in the UK are booking private tours; they want to get under the
skin of a city. Quite often our best reviews are from UK travellers because they are shocked by how much they enjoyed it,” he said. The company claims private
tours can often be cheaper than large group tours and could add value, particularly for agents putting together dynamic packages. The company offers agents a flat
rate for them to mark-up. Its three-hour Heart of Rome walking tour costs £26.75 per
person based on four people.
touriocity.com
Cruise Plus booking between now and April 30. Travel 2’s new and expanded Cruise Plus
programme features options from 12 cruise lines. The operator enhances lines’ existing packages by adding elements such as tours, rail journeys, flights and hotels. Travel 2 is pushing the product further
after reporting a 54% increase in Cruise Plus bookings in the eight months to
January on the same period a year prior.
travel2.com
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