NEWS IN BRIEF
Win Easter treats from Hotel Chocolat and Hoseasons
Agents can win Hotel Chocolat Easter goodies by answering 10 questions about Hoseasons and completing a word puzzle being sent out on flyers. Email the answers, along with your name, agency and Abta number to
agency.sales@hoseasons.
co.uk before March 27.
hoseasons.co.uk
Break a world record this summer at Haven parks
Haven is partnering with Guinness World Records to incorporate ‘record-breaking’ into its entertainment offering during its peak season. It will run challenges such as ‘most passes of a beach ball in 30 seconds’ and ‘fastest time to pack a suitcase’.
havenexpert.co.uk
Saga celebrates Beatrix Potter’s 150th anniversary
Saga Holidays is offering a short break in the Lake District to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter’s birth. The three-night break starts from £239 and includes B&B at Skiddaw Hotel, Keswick, one dinner and a guided walking tour. The hotel is close to areas such as St Herbert’s Island, the inspiration for The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin.
saga.co.uk/UK
Caribtours’ September Solos offers 30% discount
Caribtours has teamed up with five-star Saint Lucian resort The BodyHoliday to offer a month dedicated to the solo traveller from August 28 to September 24. September Solos offers savings of 30% for seven nights, from £1,889 all-inclusive, based on one adult staying in a single garden view room, including flights and transfers, airport lounge pass and spa treatments.
caribtours.co.uk
Tipto along to one of 16 roadshows across the UK
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
The Truly Independent Professional Travel Organisation (Tipto) has revealed the dates and locations of its next 13 regional roadshows and three SuperShows.
The roadshows run between
March and June nationwide. Tipto, now in its 17th year, has
run two regional roadshows and one SuperShow since September. The roadshows, called Face2Face with Tipto, allow independent
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19 Tipto members and up to 150 agents attend. The next tranche of roadshows
Tipto tour operator and cruise line members
agents to meet 12 to 13 of Tipto’s 19 tour operator and cruise line members for product and training updates while enjoying dinner, drinks, ‘speed-dating’ and the chance to win prizes. The SuperShows are for agents
from the multiples – Thomas Cook and The Co-operative Travel. All
will be in Shrewsbury on March 15, Cardiff on March 16 and Stoke-on-Trent on March 24. The SuperShows will be at Manchester United Football Club on March 23 and in London and Newcastle in June. Dates and locations of the latter two have yet to be confirmed. To attend, register online at
tipto.co.uk. Tipto has also unveiled a new
training incentive. It is giving away two Pandora bracelets worth £80 each. For a chance to win one, agents need to complete all 15
Insight and Uniworld unveil ‘Europe’s Finest’
Sister luxury brands Insight Vacations and Uniworld Boutique River Cruises have teamed up to produce a digital brochure of escorted tours, including river cruises.
The ‘Europe’s Finest’ collection includes seven itineraries, each combining a land-based tour with a river cruise in Europe.
As a launch incentive,
this is the first time they have produced a combined luxury travel brochure. He described it as a win-win for agents and holidaymakers. The tours featured are: 17-day
AGENT INCENTIVE
any travel agent who registers a booking from the brochure in February and March will automatically receive a luxury L’Occitane unisex gift bag. Insight Vacations chief executive
John Boulding said the two brands had worked together on several tour and cruise itineraries but
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Portugal and the Douro; 16-day Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Rhine; 15-day Switzerland and the Rhine; 16-day Bohemia and the Danube: 22-day Eastern Europe and the Danube; 15- day Gems of Italy and the River
Po; and 21-day La Serenissima. Prices start from £4,025 for the
Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Rhine itinerary. This includes trips to Brussels and Amsterdam before joining the Rhine cruise to sail past vineyards, historic castles
L’OCCITANE: Bag a gift for bookings in February and March
and villages. The price is based on twin-share and includes the tour, cruise and flights, with departures from April to October. There is a 7.5% saving for clients who book any of the combined tour-and-cruise
itineraries before March 25.
insightvacations.com uniworld.com
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