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NEWS Hot Stories
Thriving indie agencies expand with new stores; Barrhead acclaims high street success in 2015 results; Essex agencies clash over ‘misleading’ ad; Youtravel won’t seek sales chief after Riches quits; bookings up in July despite Brexit gloom
Round-up WIN!
Cook outsources hotels; TW roadshows; WTTC tips UK tourism to grow by 3.6%
A four-night Just for Tots break to one of Butlin’s resorts page 38
Talk Back
Jon Platt, cruise lines, Swansea airport Cover Stars 2017
Enter our fabulous competition to grace our front cover and win a trip to Texas
NEWS YOU CAN USE Product French America Line, Travelmood 19
Operator Carrier issues six brochures Aviation Ethiopian Airlines flies A350 Cruise Royal Caribbean, Avalon, APT
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FRONTLINE Comment Steve Dunne: biggest trend 30
A Day With... Miles Morgan Travel 34 Mystery Shopper Macclesfield, Cheshire 40 DESTINATIONS
Escorted Tours 10 of the Best: Wildlife Tours
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Foodie Macedonia: Try something new 51 Gap Years: Target the wider market
BUSINESS Demands grow to enforce regulation of the sharing economy
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Africa Garden Route: South Africa at its best 62
BUSINESS NEWS
UNWTO Seminar report from Lithuania 70 Back page MPs back P2P regulation
72 WHAT
LUCY DID THISWEEK
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Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley
Met James and Crista from Holiday Extras to decide on their next campaign to follow the incredible #winmeamini promotion.
Caught up with Michael and Chloe from Intrepid Travel ahead of their big office move to London and to talk about trade plans.
Cried every time Team GB won a medal at the Olympics! I’m so impressed by all our amazing athletes.
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Team GB’s triumphant Olympians returning from Rio on board a specially customised British Airways Boeing 747. It’s a fantastic feelgood story and a marketing coup for the flag-carrier – and the timing couldn’t be better as BA and its partner American Airlines join Travel Weekly for the first time to fly our very own travel agent reader stars on their own trip of a lifetime. Over the past six years, our Cover Stars competition
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has rewarded more than 70 frontline travel sellers who have taken pride of place on our front covers and experienced some amazing destinations and travel products along the way. And I’m delighted that 12 more agents will have this amazing experience as we launch Cover Stars 2017 in association with our new airline partners, our headline sponsor Texas Tourism, and our long-term makeover partner Simon Shopping Destinations (page 16). Cover Stars really is a celebration of everything that’s good about our industry, and it is fitting that we are unveiling the details of this year’s competition as our news pages are packed with stories hailing the growth of agencies across the UK (page 4). Just as our Olympic athletes have been lauded
for their expertise, skill and dedication, so our own readers can be proud of the hours of hard graft – often unseen – that ensure their customers rate them so highly. With the latest booking statistics also giving cause for good cheer (page 6), there are plenty of reasons to enter the key September booking period with a sense of positivity.
s I write this week’s column, the TV screens in the Travel Weekly offices are dominated by pictures of
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