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UK & Ireland: Sporting ideas for those inspired by London’s Olympic Games p37; Debbie Ward chats to domestic operators about how they are warming up for a big summer p41;
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ON OUR RADAR
KATHERINE LAWREY
Philadelphia is the kind of city that makes you feel clever just being there. Art and culture oozes from every street corner, and when I visited last year I enjoyed
soaking up the history while exploring the compact, laid-back city on foot. So I was interested to learn that Kirker Holidays is blazing the heritage trail by launching a dedicated Philadelphia arts and cultural tour. The five-night tour departs on October 10 and costs £2,179, which includes flights and five nights’ accommodation at the four-star Latham Hotel in the Rittenhouse Square District.
This will include entry to the Barnes
Foundation – a who’s who gallery of famous artists including Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Pierre- Auguste Renoir, Chaim Soutine and Vincent Van Gogh. The Foundation opens a new campus on May 19, on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the city’s cultural corridor, which will give greater prominence to the collection. Also on the itinerary are the Rodin Museum & Garden, which reopens in late spring after a three-year renovation project, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “Discerning travellers have always known that Philadelphia is the heart of civilised North America,” said Ted Wake, Kirker’s director of sales and marketing. “Now, with the launch of a new art gallery at the Barnes Foundation – home to the largest collection of Renoirs outside Paris – there has never been a better time to visit.” There’ll also be guided walking tours of the city ensuring Kirker’s clients work up an appetite for Philly’s speciality dish – the finger-lickin’ delicious, don’t-count- the-calories Philly Cheesesteak.
PIPPA JACKS
With single parent families accounting for 17% of UK families in the 2011 Census, this is one part of the market agents can’t afford to miss out on. Sandals
stepped up in 2003 to introduce Single Parent Fun months (SPF), in which the single supplement fee is waived – a saving of around £435 on a week’s stay – and the programme is back for 2012, bigger and better. Single parents during this period get to be special guests at the weekly Sesame Street parade and can meet other single parents at Xbox 360 family games nights, beach bonfires, beach Olympics and more. “Planning a family holiday can be daunting , but all-day kids’ camps and 24-hour nanny care mean that even single parents can enjoy some ‘me-time’ at Beaches Resorts,” said managing director Karl Thompson. The programme is available between May 1-24 and September 4-October 31 (though, of course, we don’t condone taking the little scamps out of school…)
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Paul Cezanne, The Card Players ©The Barnes Collection
Paul Gauguin, Haere Pape ©The Barnes Collection
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