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BEST names
Holiday Team diversifies
Melinis as chair
Gary Noakes.
worldwide hotels, but this year
LONG-HAUL specialist The Holiday we want to expand our offering to
Team plans to expand beyond create a one-stop shop for tailor-
NEW TRADE association Better Escorted Touring flights and hotels by offering made travel arrangements.”
(BEST) has appointed Paul Melinis of Insight attraction tickets and theme park He said a range of three, four
Vacations and Trafalgar Tours as chairman. passes, later this year. and five-star hotels would soon
Melinis said the overwhelming response to the The Southall Travel-owned be made available in Australasia.
association, which was created after TTG brought business will also expand its The Holiday Team signed deals
seven escorted tour specialists together, was range of hotels in Australia and with Advantage, Hays Travel, TTA,
continuing and the body had been contacted by New Zealand and create a bigger and Worldchoice last year and all
operators and agents wanting to be involved. short break programme with themed trips to groups are performing well, according to Sawhney.
“We are getting calls to our offices and our European cities. He believes the success is partly down to
people on the road are being asked a variety of Sales director Rajan Sawhney (pictured) offering flights at net prices and allowing agents
questions by agents – the level of interest is claimed sales this year are double 2009 and said to add their own margins.
incredible,” he said. “And operators want to he wants to continue to grow market share by “The agent knows the local market best, so it
know how they can get involved.” expanding his company’s range of add-ons for is up to them what percentage they mark up.
“We intend on becoming a one-stop shop for agents to sell. On that basis, we give them net hotel rates,
agents who want to know more about escorted He added: “We are exploring ways to expand packages and air fares. They have been very well
touring and how it can benefit them and want to our product range including introducing attrac- received.”
make sure we tackle the most important tion tickets and theme park passes. The Holiday Team offers agents an online
elements first.” “We have recently added a powerful hotel-only booking facility but backs this up with a reserva-
BEST’s most recent meeting focused on setting search which gives agents access to thousands of tions team.
membership criteria for other operators.
The members, which are Page & Moy,
Leger, Shearings, Wendy Wu, Collette Worldwide
Holidays, Cosmos Tourama and Insight Vacations
and Trafalgar Tours, all agreed on four criteria
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