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IN THE PICTURE: £10k booking, tick!


An apprentice travel consultant has received some sweet treats from Hoseasons after securing a £10,000 booking during her first week. Emily Kedzie of Thomas Cook, Basingstoke, arranged


a two-week break in August for three generations of the same family. Emily booked three waterside cabins at the Hengar Manor Country Park in Bodmin, Cornwall, part of Hoseasons’ Go Active Breaks Collection, for the family of 13. The 19-year-old said: “With the children growing up, the


customer said she was looking for a UK break to treat the whole family. “She felt the holiday would most probably be the last


time all her children and grandchildren would want to go away together so she wanted somewhere that would make some great family memories.”


AWTE to unveil plans to expand globally at WTM


Juliet Dennis juliet.dennis@travelweekly.co.uk


The Association of Women Travel Executives (AWTE) has revealed plans to attract members from outside the UK and encourage them to set up sub-committees globally.


The AWTE global membership


package, which costs £25 a year, will be unveiled at World Travel Market in London next week. It comes under a new membership tier called AWTE International. The association is hosting a


presentation at WTM to raise its profile among women travel executives from around the world who are visiting the show. The AWTE has 318 members, all in the UK, which includes individuals and company members. Chairman Debbee Dale said the association decided to “go global” after demand from female executives at last year’s WTM. She said: “There is an appetite


all around the world to share what we do. It’s not going to happen


DEBBEEDALE: The AWTE chairman, who recently had her hair shaved off for charity, wants the association to expand globally


overnight, but we want to get the message out to other countries.” The AWTE plans to upload


presentations, updates and information from all its events on the members’ part of its website. “We want to engage with members online globally,” said Dale. “The first stage is to benefit members with good content in countries where they don’t have the same sort of network and events.” Members will also be


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“There is an appetite to share what we do. We want to get the message out to other countries”


for other members to use and put photographs of themselves and biographies online to increase online networking opportunities. The next stage will be to


encourage women travel executives in other markets to set up AWTE sub-committees and organise similar networking and speaker- led events in their own countries. The association is running an


event in Ireland this week for about 45 female travel executives. “There is no reason why we can’t do AWTE [events] in Ireland and then globally. We would furnish them with the information to find experts or help them. It would be tailored to their market,” she said. The AWTE presentations at WTM are at 10am and 12.30pm in North


Gallery Room 18 on November 8. ›WTM 2016 preview, page 44


Clia reveals speakers for annual Cruise Forum in Windsor


Clia UK & Ireland has revealed the speaker programme for its annual cruise forum, to be held in Windsor on December 13. Lisa Lutoff-Perlo, chief executive


and president of Celebrity Cruises, will speak at the Clia Cruise Forum about industry developments in 2016 and prospects for 2017. She will be joined by two journalists, Ben Thompson and Frank Barrett, to address some of the UK’s key cruise agent members at the one-day seminar and networking event. Thompson is a BBC Breakfast


business reporter and co-host of BBC Business Live, and Barrett is The Mail on Sunday’s travel editor


and author of 12 books. Attendees will also be invited


to join an evening of celebrations at the annual gala dinner and the Clia Cruise Excellence Awards, which honours agents who have shown innovation and expertise.


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