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In brief Seabourn in UK drive
■ Aito picks Majorca for annual conference
Katherine Lawrey in Genoa.
Cruise Club, Cumbria Cruises and Gill’s Cruise
Aito Specialist Travel Agents has selected Ma- YACHTS OF SEABOURN is expanding its UK sales Centre had said their customers had been ask-
jorca’s five-star Blau Porto Petro Beach Resort team as a result of increased trade interest in the ing about Seabourn.
& Spa for its annual conference on June 10-13. line and its three new ships. Magowan said Seabourn’s bed capacity was
Chairman Barry Moxley said the Blau Porto Petro Andrew Magowan, Seabourn vice-president increasing from 624 in the summer of 2009 to
was a state-of-the-art hotel that would more than for Europe, Middle East and Africa, is planning 1,974 by 2011, through the addition of three ships.
meet the group’s conference requirements. to add two regional sales managers to his UK “Our traditional supporters are important as
team of three. they have ever been, but we need to widen our
■ Dermot Blastland to speak at Born Free debate Magowan explained the reasons behind the distribution net. There’s an opportunity for many
Dermot Blastland, Tui Travel’s UK and Ireland expansion while giving TTG an exclusive hard hat more agents here.”
managing director, will be the guest speaker at tour of new ship Sojourn (below) in Genoa. Magowan hopes to have the extra sales reps
the Born Free Foundation’s debate on the impact “Since the launch of Odyssey last year, the in place by the launch of Sojourn in early
of tourism on wildlife. The evening, Look At interest from the trade has been huge. I don’t have June, when more than 250 agents will be
Animals With A Different View, will take place enough resources to invited to Greenwich
on March 18 at the Ondaatje Theatre, Royal follow up all of the to experience the
Geographical Society, in London and starts at leads,” he said. ship.
7pm. Tickets are £12.50. Contact Joanne “Some big players Sojourn, which is
Bartholomew at Born Free on 01403 240 170 are coming to us undergoing finishing
or
joanne@bornfree.org.uk who have not sold touches in the
Seabourn before.” Mariotti shipyard,
■ Eurotunnel profits plummet 96% Magowan said the will carry up to 450
Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel has likes of Bolsover passengers.
seen profits slashed by 96% following
cancellations by Eurostar in December and the
effects of a fire in September 2008. Eurotunnel
recorded a net profit of ¤1.4 million in 2009
– down from ¤34 million the previous year
– mainly due to a drop in freight business.
Leisure business performed better with a 1%
increase in passenger numbers during 2009
while car traffic was also 1% higher.
■ Gunmen raid safe at Thomson Liverpool shop
Staff at a Thomson agency in Liverpool were
forced to open the shop’s safe at gunpoint during
a robbery on Tuesday. Two men armed with a
handgun raided the shop in the Mossley Hill area
at around 2pm. Staff and customers were or-
dered into the back of the shop before the men
fled with foreign currency and travellers cheques
from the safe. Police said nobody was hurt.
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