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NEWS Hot Stories
Cook to open 10 more concept stores; Tunisia urges FCO to soften advice; summer sales up 4%; US targets 100m visitors; Orlando positive after tragedies
Round-up Thomas Cook, Freedom, Intrepid WIN!
An SIA trip to Singapore, Canberra and Wellington page 30
Special Reports Tunisia, one year on from beach massacre 10 Refugee-free Samos cries out for tourists 12
Event Preview
Agent Achievement Awards: Paul Melinis Talk Back
Pure Luxury, EU vote, dnata, P&O Cruises
NEWS YOU CAN USE Product Private Jet Tours, Royal, Saga
Hotel Iberostar opens in Ibiza; Sandals Operator Somak, Jet2, Intrepid
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22 Cruise Voyages to Antiquity, Scenic, NCL 24
FRONTLINE Comment Steve Dunne: Live in the now 28 A Day With... Planet Cruise, Portsmouth 38 Agent Champion Chef See who won!
Mystery Shopper Tunbridge Wells DESTINATIONS
UK & Ireland 10 of the Best: Literary breaks
CONSUMER RESEARCH Just under half of adults have taken or plan an overseas holiday this year
page 62 44 London for Families: Kids in the capital 49
Africa Kenya Safari Parks: Masai Mara, Tsavo et al 52
BUSINESS NEWS
Unruly Passenger Seminar Legal view 63 EU Referendum Holidaymakers back ‘In’ 64
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A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
Tunisia’s efforts to deal with the fallout from the massacre of holidaymakers in Sousse a year ago (page 10). Orlando has suffered two unspeakable tragedies in as many weeks – we have the latest from the US on the outlook (page 6). And we report from the Greek island of Samos, which has suffered a calamitous drop in tourists since last year’s refugee crisis in the Aegean (page 12). Yet the news from Samos is improving, as it is for the
Travel’s travails and triumphs T
imes are tough for many travel businesses but tougher still for some destinations, as we report this week on
market as a whole despite the uncertainty brought by the EU referendum and the distraction of Euro 2016. While experiences will be mixed and some businesses will undoubtedly be finding life difficult, we report figures this week showing growth in the overall outbound market for bookings and departures (page 5). Average prices appear to be up year on year, and the
strong demand has come despite the well-publicised fall in the value of the pound this year due to uncertainty around the referendum. Only in the past two weeks has market analyst GfK
reported a fall-off in bookings, attributed to a lack of capacity in Spain and the western Mediterranean rather than to consumers delaying holiday buying. Thankfully, by Friday morning the biggest source of
uncertainty should be resolved because we will know the referendum result. Whatever the outcome, the industry will go into late June off the back of a better-than-expected first five months of the year. Hopefully, business leaders have plans in place to deal with a possible Brexit – and planned investment, like that of Thomas Cook in its high street retail estate (page 4), will take place regardless.
Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley
Was treated, along with all the Travel Weekly team, to a great night out by Nick Hughes and Gail Dunwoodie of Attraction World
Hosted Travel Weekly’s latest senior-level Executive Dinner, with guest speaker James Hogan of Etihad, at The Lanesborough
Gave my lovely dad a metal heron for his garden – as you do! – for Father’s Day on Sunday
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