NEWS IN BRIEF
Win Black Friday shopping weekend with Titan
Agents will receive £50 Love2shop vouchers for every Titan 2016 booking and be entered into a draw to win a Black Friday shopping weekend. Agents who make a 2017 booking will receive £10 Love2shop vouchers and also gain entry into the draw. To enter, make a Titan booking and send your name, Abta number and booking reference, within seven days of booking, to
agentincentive@titantravel.co.uk
Cox & Kings offers new riads tour of Morocco
Cox & Kings is offering a new riad-based group tour to Morocco in its Middle East 2017 brochure and promoting Iran on the back of continued demand for the destination. The eight- day Riads, Souks & Kasbahs tour costs from £1,015.
coxandkings.co.uk
Enjoy a £200 dining experience from Travel 2
Travel 2 is giving agents the chance to win a £200 Thai dining experience to mark the launch of its Asia brochure. Agents need to book any destination in the new Asia 2016-17 brochure, including return flights and five nights’ ground arrangements, before August 30 to qualify.
travel2.com
Join Premier Holidays’ 80th Birthday Quiz nights
Premier Holidays has teamed up with Singapore Airlines and Tourism Australia to run a series of agent quiz nights to mark its 80th anniversary. The Big Birthday Quiz nights are taking place between September 13 and 29 in Cambridge, Norwich, Birmingham, Manchester and Portsmouth, with each event limited to 80 people.
premierholidays.co.uk/quiz
Newmarket adds 25% to regional flight programme
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
Newmarket Holidays has increased capacity in its regional flight programme by 25% for next year and plans to expand further in 2018.
The escorted tours operator,
which is featuring fly-cruises for the first time, offers flights out of 21 regional airports, at 11 of which it operates full charters. Newmarket has issued dedicated
eight-page brochures for use by agents locally at each airport. The operator has substantially
increased capacity for 2017, with extra departures and destinations added to its existing programme, following trade feedback. Commercial director David Sharman said: “We have listened to agents and expanded the choice at these airports. “We have already discussed new destinations for 2018 and we fully plan to expand the programme. “We consult agents on what they
feel customers are looking for and then work with the airline.” Dubrovnik is new, with five
tours, including a cruise, and is offered with flights from nine
Win a host of prizes in Hoseasons’ six-week giveaway
Hoseasons is giving agents 12 chances to win one of eight prizes as part of its latest What Would You Wish For campaign. The prizes include Virgin Experience Days, a Fortnum & Mason hamper and a personal
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REGIONS: Norwegian cruise and Humberside airport brochure (inset)
“We now have two river cruise ships. It’s getting the message across to agents”
regional airports including Humberside and Norwich. A new partnership with
Norwegian Cruise Line offers
regional flights for two cruises on Norwegian Star to the Adriatic and Greece. Sharman said agents had “jumped on this”, with the majority of bookings so far from the trade. The cruise starts from £989. The operator has also expanded its European river cruise range
WIN!
shopping experience as part of a six-week giveaway. To enter, register Hoseasons bookings made between August 15 and September 25. Two winners will be chosen every Tuesday from August 23. There will also be one grand prize winner picked randomly on September 27, who will be able
to choose three prizes from a list or a £300 Hoseasons holiday voucher. Sarah Smith, Hoseasons national
and is distributing ‘how to sell’ and ‘did you know’ mini brochures to raise awareness of the product. Agency sales manager Richard
Forde said the operator had extra capacity for 2017 following the addition of a ship for 2017. “We now have two river cruise
ships. It’s getting the message across to agents that we offer this,” he added. The operator has also
increased the size of its long- haul programme featured in its new Escorted Holiday Collection, which has 25 new tours for 2017, including South Africa and New
Zealand for the first time.
newmarketholidays.co.uk
account manager, said: “Agents provide an essential personalised option for holidaymakers. The opportunity for agents to enter our competition and win some fantastic prizes is our way of saying thank you for all they do.” Email your booking reference,
name, travel agency and Abta number to
agency.sales@
hoseasons.co.uk by September 25.
hoseasons.co.uk/pdfs/ whatwouldyouwishfor.pdf
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