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Advantage unveils ‘Book Early’ campaign for 2017


Advantage Travel Partnership has started a ‘Book Early’ campaign for 2017 holidays. Members will receive marketing materials for their shops and online to encourage customers to book. Head of commercial John Sullivan said the timing of the promotion was in light of “challenges” the industry had faced this year, including terrorist attacks and the collapse of Lowcost Travel Group.


Former Crystal Ski worker Williams jailed for murder


A former Crystal Ski Holidays worker who murdered a love rival has been jailed for at least 30 years. Sarah Williams, 35, stunned Sadie Hartley with a cattle prod and stabbed her 41 times at her home in Lancashire in a bid to win back her ex-lover. Williams worked at a Crystal Ski shop in Manchester. An ITV documentary about the case, The Murder of Sadie Hartley, will air at 9pm on September 1.


BA cabin crew vote 91% in favour of industrial action


British Airways cabin crew voted for industrial action short of a strike in protest at a new performance review scheme they say is “needless”. BA members of Unite voted 91% for action. The carrier said: “Customers will experience no inconvenience.”


COMMENT: “Travel brands and destinations that ignore the multigenerational holiday do so at their peril” Steve Dunne, page 30


Thomas Cook outsources hotel contracts to Webjet


Phil Davies and Amie Keeley


Thomas Cook has outsourced the management of 3,000 hotel contracts to cut costs and free it to focus on its ‘differentiated’ holidays.


European online accommodation business Sunhotels, a subsidiary of Australian company Webjet, will take over the contracts of Cook’s ‘complementary’ hotels – those outside its core programmes – next spring. Webjet will pay Cook £21 million


to cover the cost of synchronising Cook’s IT system with Sunhotels’. Webjet will receive an undisclosed management fee for the first two years of the five-year deal, followed by a “volume-based service fee” from 2019. The deal will enable Cook to give


customers access to Sunhotels’ inventory of 75,000 hotels. Details of the deal between Cook and Sunhotels were revealed in Melbourne-based Webjet’s full-year accounts. Cook said the arrangement


would come into effect from spring 2017 and be fully implemented


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Register and hit the road to join a Travel Weekly roadshow


Travel Weekly’s roadshows are back this month, and we’re heading to a city near you! Hundreds of agents attended our


nine roadshows last year and the first three of this year also proved a massive hit with the trade. The next three events will be held this month and places are


8 travelweekly.co.uk 25 August 2016 NETWORKING: Leeds roadshow


filling up fast. So if you want to get involved, now is the time to register. We’ll be heading to London on September 20,


FANKHAUSER: ‘The deal ensures certainty over the quality of hotels’


“This frees us up to focus on growing our differentiated holiday offering”


by January 2019. Under the terms of the deal, Sunhotels will be responsible for health and safety audits at the properties. It already has an agreement with Cook in the group’s Nordic markets. Thomas Cook chief executive


Peter Fankhauser said: “Entering this new relationship with Webjet will transform the way in which


Thomas Cook offers a wide choice of hotels to customers. “It provides us with a low-cost


production platform for our complementary offering across all our source markets. It enables us to streamline our systems while at the same time ensuring greater certainty over the quality of hotels that we offer our customers. “This frees us up to focus on


growing our differentiated holiday offering, the area where we know Thomas Cook can really make a difference.” Cook said the move was in line with its new operating model, unveiled last year.


Manchester on September 21 and Leeds on September 22, and we’re back in December for our Christmas Crackers in Birmingham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Cardiff. Each will feature product


training and a prize draw, plus the chance to dance the night away with a DJ at every venue. Our roadshows are open to


frontline selling agents who work in shops, from home, in a call centre or online. They are free but


you must register in advance at: twroadshows.co.uk

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