Travel News July/ August 2022


Morning Tea with Oceania Cruises


Above: Agents tuck into their breakfast treats at the Hilton Hotel


Above: Agents were treated to a delicious morning tea while discovering all thing Oceania Cruises


Above: Oceania Cruises David Sanderson ready to get engaging with agents


Above: NI travel News’ Jonathan Adair addresses agents at Morning tea


THE BIG TRAVEL TRADE EVENT 2022 43


Above: Jam and cream scones went down a treat at the morning tea event


Above: Agents enjoyed the presentation from David Sanderson about Oceania Cruises


Above: A big turnout of agents for Oceania Cruise’s morning breakfast


Above: Clubworld Travel agents gather for the morning


Agents loved catching up with David Sanderson of Oceania Cruises


Above: David Sanderson stopped for a picture with prize winners on the morning


Above: Clubworld Travel’s Bethany Craig, Gareth Leckey, Rebecca Whyte and Amy Olphert of AO Travel chat with Oceania Cruises David Sanderson


Meetings at BTTE 22


Left: Danny Waine, Paula Macfarlane, Graham Buck of ABTA and Paul Hackett of ITAA ahead of the ABTA/ ITAA Meeting


Left: Hays Travel


managers gathered at this


years Big Travel Trade


Event to carry out a company meeting


Above: NITA took time to come together at the Big Event


Above: TTNG hosting a meeting for their members and potential new clients


Above: All smiles form David Sanderson as he presents to the agents at the morning tea for Oceania Cruises


WHAT DOES POST COVID RECOVERY LOOK LIKE FOR THE TRAVEL TRADE?


Above: Luke Brennan, Deirdre Laughlin, Maureen Easton (Clubworld Travel), Sarah Millar (Advantage Travel Partnership), James Buchanan (Gallagher Travel) and Trevor Ardies (Rosetta Travel) at the ABTA Regional Meeting


Above: Danny Waine (ABTA), Francis McCabe (WTC), Kasie Simpson, Sharon Thompson (Thompson Travel), David Taylor (Clubworld Travel), Paula Macfarlane (ABTA) attending the ABTA Regional Meeting


Thanos - “We’ve been very very lucky as a group. Our hotels are actually quite full and it’s good to see that people are travelling again and that they are coming back in hoards. As of today, we have exceeded pre-pandemic levels which is brilliant.” G Adventures - “ From September 2022, G Adventures has run over 5000 tours, within may, June and July. We are going to be running at least another 3000 plus tours. During last year, we saw demand for shorter-haul, so we done some walking tours within Europe. So we’ve got hiking within Ibiza, Corfu as well. So just bringing out new products to match what people are looking for. We definitely see it all picking up more in the long-haul market as well. So all very positive.” Gold Medal - “For gold medal, one of our top relationships is with G Adventures. The incredible journeys brochure is all about bucket-list destinations. We are definitely getting customers looking something a little different. Booking average spend has definitely increased, we have seen an increase in length of stay. Where people used to book four-day destinations, we have seen more people going for the seven to ten night destinations. This is always something that has worked really well for us in the past, but post-pandemic we are definitely seeing demand for something different. Which again is building our, already strong relationship, with G Adventures.” Emirates - “The reinstatement of an awful lot of people, people-first, aircrafts in place. Routes opening up, countries lifting restrictions but for us on the ground. In terms of airports worldwide, and in terms of cabin crew and getting aircraft flying. That’ll be the biggest recovery. I think everybody is ready to travel again, so we are ready to go.” Constantinou Bros- “ During Covid, we had the luxury to renovate all our hotels during that period. We kept our staff in the company, along with our guest levels as well. We are experiencing a very strong, late-bookings in high quality. In April, we ran out of superior suites, supreme suites. This shows that customers want to travel and ensure they have good holidays. Along with more guarantee for their travel.”


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