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NEWS Hot Stories
Sharm ‘safer than Heathrow’, crisis summit hears; Euro price hikes threat to 2017 bookings; Cook offers bonus for own-hotels sales; MSC reveals ex-UK 2018 sailings; Royal extends Wi-Fi deal
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Round-up Polar Routes launch; Clia River preview 08 Miles Morgan shop; Hays acquisitions Tunisia ‘ban’; A2B deals; Tipto events
Bake your way to winning a ski holiday in The Great Inghams Cake Off page 42
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Conference Reports Co-operative Travel Consortium, Portugal 14 Connections Luxury, Rio de Janeiro
16 Talk Back Sharm, Jet2holidays, British Airways
NEWS YOU CAN USE Product SeaWorld, AffordableXtras
Operator A&K, Premier, Collette 19 21 22
Destination Brand USA, Israel, Vietnam 24 Hotel Universal, Minor Hotels, Iberostar 29
FRONTLINE Comment Andy Freeth: apprentices
Readers’ Lives Tom Pestridge
PHOTO From left: Mark Delaney, Travel Circle; Alison Holmes, The Co-operative Travel Consortium; Steve Campion, Holiday Discount Centre; Julie Kendrick, The Co-operative Travel Consortium; and Paula Nuttall, The Vertical Travel Group. Photo: Steve Dunlop
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All-Inclusive Pause & Play: Slow it down or speed it up 46 Mexico: Save, spend and splurge
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North Africa Winter 3 Ways: Sun, sights and sports Marrakech Add-ons: Beyond the city
BUSINESS NEWS
WTM Finnair, Hotelbeds, Zika, New York 70 ITCMS Rifai criticises travel advisories
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WHAT
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for Brexit will be debated long and hard for months to come. For the travel industry, there appears to be much at stake, and no more important an issue than the free movement of people, not just with regards to staffing but your customers’ freedom to visit their destinations of choice. The prospect of new visa restrictions being imposed and
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Travel must not be Trumped T
he implications of Donald Trump’s shock victory in the US presidential election so soon after the UK’s support
increased costs levied looms large, but even before Brexit and Trump, freedom to unrestricted travel was constantly under threat. As WTTC chief David Scowsill pointed out at the first
International Travel Crisis Management Summit last week (page 72), a “tenuous” link between Isis and the perpetrators of the San Bernardino mass shooting last December prompted a review of the US visa programme. Describing this as an “overreaction”, he warned the travel
industry to be on guard for such knee-jerk responses by governments after terror attacks. The situation regarding the resumption of flying to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt has been put down to politicians’ tendency to be risk-averse when it comes to declaring somewhere safe (pages 4 and 19). However, I’m not sure most people would be quite as
confident as UNWTO boss Dr Taleb Rifai, who told ITCMS delegates that often the safest place to travel to is one that has just been attacked. What our industry needs from authorities is detailed, reasonable and up-to-date advice, an appreciation of the economic and social benefits of travel and a pledge that ‘close the border’ instincts will always be resisted.
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Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley
Captained and landed a Boeing 777 simulator, with co-pilot Ian Scott from AMG, at the Dubai Parks & Resorts WTM event.
Spent a great morning in Weybridge with the Royal Caribbean team planning the exciting initiatives they have for agents in 2017.
Proudly watched my son represent the 14th Tonbridge Sea Scouts at the Remembrance Day Service and Parade on Sunday.
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