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Wendy Wu offers
Superbreak rail
packages boom
World Expo deals
SUPERBREAK has reported a 125% rise in sales
through agents of rail-inclusive breaks to London
for the three months to the end of October.
The operator said 18,000 customers were
Chris Gray.
take part in the Expo, which will have the theme booked by agents on rail-inclusive packages
WENDY WU TOURS is launching packages “Better City, Better Life”. to the capital, compared with 8,000 in the same
targeting leisure and business travellers to next Wendy Wu Tours is offering a China & Expo period last year.
year’s World Expo in Shanghai. 11-day tour, which includes Shanghai, a day at Sales office manager Chris Cundall said that
It claims to be the only UK operator offering the Expo, a Wuhzhen day tour, Xi’an and Beijing. packages could now cost less than the published
packages to the exhibition, being held from May Prices start at £2,180 and include nine nights’ train fare.
to October. hotel accommodation, some meals, all flights, “Our on-the-road sales team have worked
Managing director Manuel Mascarenhas said transfers, entrance fees, taxes, local guides and hard to ensure agents understand the value
the Expo would boost China’s profile in the same visa fees for UK passport holders. these rail-inclusive breaks offer,” he said.
way as the 2008 Olympics and the operator Wendy Wu Tours is also offering an Expo “In the north-east in the last three months, the
wanted to help agents capitalise on the publicity. Short Stay lead-in price of £290 for a three- vast majority of all shops visited have put Lon-
He said many businesses would be going day/two-night itinerary, which can be added to don rail deals into their windows and, as the fig-
to the Expo to build up trade relations, and the selected longer-stay itineraries. ures show, they continue to sell amazingly well.”
event would also The deal in- Demand was being driven by new shows and
attract tourists. cludes an entrance exhibitions, such as Moctezuma, the Aztec
“The sheer ticket to the Expo, military commander, at the British Museum.
spectacle of this two nights’ B&B Agents made 200 bookings to that exhibition
event will be a accommodation, alone in October, said Cundall.
draw to leisure and transfers.
visitors as the site Customers can
will have many also add extra
features never nights in Shanghai,
before experi- to take in the Expo,
enced on such a on to other Wendy
huge scale.” Wu Tours escorted
More than 200 group tours, from
countries will Business and leisure travellers alike will be heading for Shanghai £190 per night.
21-night beach holidays that can be combined
First Choice
with tours including a two-night Adventure
Taster Tour, a four-night Canopy Tour or a
adds Costa Rica
seven-night Grand Tour of Costa Rica.
The operator will have a year-round pro-
gramme to the Dominican Republic for the first
time and in winter 2010 will have exclusive di-
FIRST CHOICE has added Costa Rica to its rect flights to Samana in the north of the island.
long-haul programme using flights from Gatwick More 10 and 11-night itineraries will be
on Thomson Airways. It claims Thomson will be available in Mexico, Goa, Jamaica and Florida.
the only airline offering direct flights from the The November edition of the 2010 Florida
UK to Costa Rica next year. brochure adds two new properties on Interna- WOW FACTOR: The Cosmos Lapland Team
The destination is in the November edition of tional Drive, Fairfield Inn and Springhill Suites, has received a Wow Award for customer
First Choice’s Tropical brochure, as are new with unlimited access to the Aquatica water park. service. Cosmos purchasing and operators
direct summer flights to La Romana, Dominican First Choice has also launched a November manager Rob Goodwin (pictured) collected
Republic, and more 10 and 11-night itineraries. edition of its Weddings brochure. the award at a ceremony at the New
Costa Rica options include seven, 14 and Call 0871 200 4455 or visit
firstchoice.co.uk Connaught Rooms in London last week.
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