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Kuoni cuts some
prices for 2010
Cheap deals threat
KUONI is offering a range of 2010 holidays at
lower prices than this year in its new Worldwide
to Turkey’s image
brochure, after securing deals with hotels in
destinations such as the Far East, Indian Ocean
Rob Gill.
cheap and nasty packages with lead-in prices of
and Africa. TURKEY is enjoying a boom summer, but one £99 sets back the country’s reputation by years.”
Five nights’ room-only at the Shangri-La’s operator fears a flood of “nasty” packages could He fears that Turkey, which has been hit by
Tanjung Aru was priced from £1,279 in the 2009 hit the destination’s reputation “for years”. bird flu and terrorism attacks in recent years,
Worldwide brochure but is on offer from £1,024 Akin Koc, managing director of Anatolian Sky, could be affected by more negative consumer
in 2010, a 20% or £255 reduction. said some of the cheapest accommodation now reports on TV and in the press.
Kuoni is also promoting early-booking incen- being offered in Turkey was so bad that “you “What can you expect if you sell such
tives such as room discounts and upgrades, spa would not want to put your dogs there”. packages? I’ll tell you: a damning feature on
treatments plus food and drink deals. Koc, who is also chairman of the Association Watchdog where the holiday company says that,
It has added activities such as meeting an of Specialist Turkish Tour Operators, is worried as a third-world country, this standard of accom-
astrologer in Jaipur, India, or touring the temples about bargain-basement Turkey specialists modation is normal in Turkey,” argued Koc.
of Angkor Wat in Cambodia on a mountain bike. dumping low-end capacity on the Turkish Budget Turkey specialist Goldtrail Holidays
Prices start at £525 per person for seven market this summer. has already featured on Watchdog in March
nights in the Egyptian resort of Luxor including Koc is concerned that £99 packages and hotel following customer complaints about the poor
flights. rates as low as £1 per night could jeopardise standard of accommodation it offered in Turkey.
Turkey’s growing reputation for offering good- But Koc added: “Thanks to the recession and
quality accommodation and holidays. the euro exchange rate, we are flavour of the
LAUNCHPAD. “We have more high-quality accommodation, year and could have a record summer.
more unspoiled resorts, except for Marmaris, “Turkey could turn out to be a lifeline for some
Titan HiTours and a better infrastructure than many other operators who are seeing huge falls in business
2010 Early Booking Mediterranean countries,” he added. to Spain, Greece and other eurozone countries,
Savings “But most people do not know this, and selling not to mention Mexico and the strong dollar.”
Coaching operator Titan
HiTours has produced its
first brochure specifically
for agents to send to
Win a fam through ‘Wuniversity’
their customers.
The 2010 Early AGENTS can win a place on a serious we are about
Booking Savings brochure lists no direct contact fam trip to China by completing supporting them.
numbers for Titan, so agents can send it to their Wendy Wu Tours’ new online “We’ve launched it at
clients with only their own agency’s details training course. the same time as our new
featured in a special area on the brochure cover. The Far East specialist has Indochina brochure as we
Titan will also pay half of any postage costs just launched its first training know this is an area that
for agents who want to mail the brochure directly programme for agents called is new to us and we want
to customers. “Wuniversity” which covers the agents to be able to get up
The operator is offering 2010 holidays at operator’s main destination of to speed with the region
this year’s prices for bookings made by July 31. China and its new destinations of as quickly as possible.”
A Worldwide brochure will be launched in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Agents who complete
August when prices are expected to go up due The course is made of up of all five modules, at
to changes in exchange rates and other costs five modules, including one on
wuniversity.co.uk, will
since the 2009 prices were set. the total solar eclipse taking receive a toy panda and
Prices lead in at £1,495 for a 16-day place in China on July 22, and has be entered into a draw to
California and the Golden West tour to the US been put together by the Online win one of six places on
including flights. Training Company. an educational to China.
■
titanhitours.co.uk Wendy Wu managing director Launching the course, from left: Bruce Martin,
■ 0800 988 5800 Laurence Hicks said: “We wanted OTT; Hannah Joiner and Jackie Steadman, ■ Try TTG’s web courses
to demonstrate to agents how both Traveltime World; and Laurence Hicks at
ttglive.com
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