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Operators
Kay McLellan
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In brief
Superbreak spots
■ Funway issues Amazing Thailand brochure
Funway Holidays has unveiled its Amazing
Thailand brochure. It features city breaks, tours,
escorted journeys and beach holidays from June swing to UK sales
30. Breaks to Bangkok start from £649 for four
nights, and to Phuket from £689 for seven nights, from foreign holidays,” said Mounser. “People
Kay McLellan.
including accommodation and flights. SUPERBREAK has reported early evidence of recognise that places such as Rome are more ex-
0844 573 5888 people switching from foreign to domestic pensive now and are more likely to avoid them.”
holidays, reporting strong January sales for He added: “Some industry leaders have
■ ITC Classics releases Platinum – on CD UK breaks. speculated that people will try not to forgo
ITC Classics has launched its Platinum Collection Ian Mounser, sales director of Superbreak, their main holiday, and so the short holiday
on an interactive CD, due to be released in April. revealed that January sales for regions outside market will struggle. But I think there is a degree
Deals include 14 nights’ half-board for the price London were up 14% on last year, while its of wishful thinking in that. Some people will, but
of seven at Les Pavillons in Mauritius. overseas programme was down by 12%. others will say they are not going abroad.
01244 355527 Mounser said the strength of the euro was “Every market is saying that lead times are
having a definite effect on overseas sales but getting shorter – and that helps UK breaks.”
■ Tourist board leads the Pennine way that the impact of this on Superbreak would be Superbreak’s London sales have remained flat
West Yorkshire Tourism Partnership has launched limited, as overseas bookings accounted for only year-on-year, but Mounser pointed out that the
the Leeds & Pennine Yorkshire Group Travel 15-20% of its business. early 2008 period benefited from very strong
service. Aimed at coach tour organisers, the He said bookings through agents, which make ticket sales to several exhibitions including
service has a dedicated brochure and will help up about 55% of Superbreak’s distribution, were Tutankhamun and the First Emperor.
create itineraries and negotiate rates. doing better than any of its other distribution Mounser said he believed UK sales would
0113 220 6366 channels, and that the predicted move by continue to strengthen during the year, and
customers back to packaged deals would help added: “The outlook isn’t fantastic, but I would
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“There is definite evidence already of a switch double-digit growth in 2009.”
Scots firm heads
south up north
GLENTON Holidays, the Glasgow-
based coach tour operator, has
launched its first range of holidays
from north-east England.
The programme features coach
tours, cruises and self-drive holi-
days from 10 north-east locations.
Established in 2005, Glenton
said it expected 40,000 passengers in 2009.
Steve Turbill, co-founder of Glenton, said: “We
plan to invest significantly in this region over the
coming years. Working with local travel agents
will be an important part of our strategy.”
Glenton has teamed up with Scottish IT’S THE WHEEL DEAL FOR TOP AGENT:
Jet2.com and
Jet2holidays.com helped their
independent Ramsay Travel to host a series of top-selling agent kick off the new year in style — by awarding her a gleaming new Ford
roadshows to promote the brands, starting on Fiesta. Alan Cross, group sales manager at
Jet2.com, handed over the keys to the lucky
February 23 at Ramsay Travel’s Kirkcaldy agency. winner, Jill Jones from Vacation Travel in Blackpool. A new Win A Car competition has
0800 024424 been launched. To take part, visit
jet2.com/winacar
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