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■ All America Holidays ceases trading
Lee Hayhurst.
when they come back from
US specialist All America Holidays ceased trading THE BOOM in domestic their main break.”
this week. An Atol-holder, which traded as Ski All holidays this summer is not Cowley said with more
America and All America, sold mainly air-inclusive being enjoyed by travel people this year opting for
holidays to the US, Canada and Latin America. agents, according to one of “staycations” – holidays in
Accommodation-only supplier
Getabed.co.uk the UK’s biggest operators of holiday homes. the UK – because of the recession, agents had an
stepped in to rebook hundreds of affected clients. Holiday Cottages Group has recently enjoyed opportunity to make gains in this market.
some of the best trading days in its 20-year “The UK is doing great this year,” he added.
■ Manchester to host Counsellors conference history, but that has not been reflected in “You will hear that from everyone in the UK.
Travel Counsellors’ annual conference will take bookings through agents. “But still the agent channel is not getting the
place in Manchester Central convention centre About 10% of its business has formerly come full benefit.”
on December 4-6. More than 400 agents have through the trade, and in a bid to increase that Holiday Cottages, which claims its 10,000 UK
signed up to attend the conference since registra- the company has this year consolidated product properties make it the biggest domestic player,
tion opened last week. David Speakman, Travel for the trade under one brand, Cottages4you. also plans to launch a simplified trade brand for
Counsellors founder and chairman, said the focus But managing director Geoff Cowley said the overseas properties.
would be on innovation and customer service. company was not seeing the growth it expected Its US parent will not allow it to reveal trading
through that channel. figures, but Cowley said 2009 bookings were
■ Multicom’s first-quarter sales rise 38% “Almost every customer booking a holiday well up on last year.
Software company Multicom posted a 38% year- through a travel agent books one of our products Some domestic operators have claimed sales
on-year rise in sales for the first quarter of the as well at some point during the year,” he said. are up by as much as 40%, although these
year. The Bristol-based company, behind technol- “If agents really know their customers, they are often from a small base.
Lastminute.com
ogy such as FindandBook, claimed it was growing will know this is a product that people book claimed bookings were 50% up.
four times faster then its competitors. Managing
director John Howell said: “In an increasingly
competitive market, we are bucking the trend.”
luxury included
■ Aegean given green light to join Star Alliance
Greek carrier Aegean Airlines’ application to join
the Star Alliance has been accepted. Meanwhile,
Russia’s biggest domestic carrier, S7, will join the
oneworld group next year.
■ Marriott lauded as UK’s greenest hotel chain
Marriott Hotels is the UK’s greenest hotel chain,
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according to The Sunday Times Green List. The
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in Britain. At an awards ceremony, the company
also won top prize in the “large companies with
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