NEWS ROUND-UP NEWS IN BRIEF Ship fire forces Fred Olsen
to fly passengers home Fred Olsen Cruise Lines was forced to fly home almost 700 passengers on private charter flights from Madeira on Monday following a fire on Black Watch. Crew put out the fire in the auxiliary engine and there were no injuries.
Will Waggott steps down from board of Tui AG
Will Waggott, chief executive of non-mainstream at Tui AG for almost two years, has stepped down from the executive board. Waggott intends to run the Travelopia specialist portfolio outside of Tui once it has been sold. › Special Report, page 12
Princess Cruises to host
second series of ITV show A second series of The Cruise is to be filmed on a Princess Cruises ship. The new six-part ITV documentary will be set on the 3,560-passenger Royal Princess and is provisionally due to air early next year.
Travel Counsellors creates mobile app for customers
Travel Counsellors is launching an app to enable customers to access their travel itineraries and contact their agent via their mobile phone. The ‘my TC’ app is available from the Apple Store and Google Store.
COMMENT: “Travel partners in the US will now find marketing in the UK has never been more affordable” Jonathan Sloan, page 30
Brand USA invites agents to inaugural Insight event
Robin Searle
robin.searle@
travelweekly.co.uk
About 250 travel agents, suppliers and destinations are expected to meet this autumn at a new event designed to showcase the US to the UK trade.
Brand USA’s Insight event will
take place in partnership with Visit USA and US Commercial Services at London’s BFI Imax theatre on September 15. The evening will include
a trade fair and a showing of Brand USA’s big-screen film commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, America Wild:
National Parks Adventure. Travel Weekly is the official media partner, and will moderate a panel discussion during which US experts will discuss the market to America and the challenges and opportunities facing the trade. Gerry Boyle, UK & Ireland
travel trade director for Brand USA, said: “We are excited to be launching the inaugural Insight: A Travel Showcase event in partnership with Visit USA and in
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Wendy Wu Tours eyes global growth with four senior recruits
Wendy Wu Tours has made four appointments to its senior global team as the operator looks to build on a strong first half of the year. Joe Karbo becomes group chief
executive and will be relocating to London very soon. He was previously general manager at Excite Holidays in Sydney. Andrew Miles joins from holiday
transport company Hoppa as global e-commerce director, and
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travelweekly.co.uk 7 July 2016 Joe Karbo (left) and Andrew Miles
will also be based in London. Leslie Peden, previously with
Rocky Mountaineer UK and US, Virgin Holidays Cruises and Royal Caribbean, has been appointed president for the US business,
PARK LIFE: The Insight event will show America Wild film at Imax
“We invite all travel professionals to join us, share their perspective and meet others in the industry”
conjunction with the US Embassy. “This is a special collaboration bringing together all aspects of the industry who have a part to play, and a conversation to have, about travel to and within the US.” He added: “We invite all travel professionals, from frontline
sales to homeworkers, and from reservation staff to product managers, and all suppliers to the USA – airlines, hoteliers, product, attractions and destination representatives – to join us, share their perspective and meet other members of the travel industry. “Insight is about getting
involved in the conversation and learning from the vast knowledge
that will be brought together.” › If you are interested in attending the event, or would like more information, go to
visittheusa.co.uk/insight › The US: Destinations, page 42
while Andrew Mulholland, who most recently led a turnaround at Adventure World, becomes Australia general manager. The appointments reflect recent
growth and business objectives, the company said. Laurence Hicks remains in
London and has been promoted to group managing director. Wendy Wu Tours, which has
offices in London, Sydney, New York, Xi’an and Auckland, plans to double its global business by 2018. It reported a 27% year-on-year
rise in UK passenger numbers for the first half of this year.
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