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CARIBBEAN TOURISM ORGANISATION
CAROL HAY UK MANAGER CTO
Love our Caribbean promotion – get involved! Do you have a passion for selling holidays to the
Caribbean? If so, then join the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) for our ‘Love the Caribbean’
Campaign during Caribbean
Month, throughout September. And follow our new Facebook, Twitter and Blog pages, under the theme ‘Love Caribbean’. The campaign aims to increase bookings to
the Caribbean region and the CTO is happy to send our special offers flyers to agents to distribute to their clients and display in their agency shop windows. And agents can participate in the campaign in other ways, like email blasts, social media or other events. For more information on the campaign, please contact
Ann-Marie Brooks at
abrooks@caribtourism.com; 020 8948 0057.
Win some amazing prizes To celebrate the launch of the Love Caribbean Special Offers Campaign and Caribbean Month, the CTO will be giving away: • £300 worth of shopping vouchers to the first two agents to log 20 or more bookings made during September. • £150 worth of shopping vouchers to the first two agents to log 10 or more bookings • £75 worth of shopping vouchers to the first two agents to log five or more bookings. Only offers from the Love Caribbean
Special Offers Campaign are eligible to receive the above prizes. And agents must also be signed up to the Caribbean Training Programme (CTP). To join download the registration form on
www.onecaribbean.org/ traveltrade/travelagents. Any tax liability on vouchers will be the agent’s responsibility. Just download the booking form on www.
onecar
ibbean.org/ content / f i les / CTPBookingForm(1).pdf
to log your
bookings and email to abrooks@
caribtourism.com with the subject Line “Love Caribbean Campaign Incentive” .
IN BRIEF
Contact: Caribbean Tourism Organisation 22 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1BP Tel: 020 8948 0057 Fax: 020 8948 0067
caribbean.co.uk or
onecaribbean.org
Scenic Excellence: Eight Scenic Hotel Group NZ properties have landed a TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence: Scenic Hotel Te Pania in Napier, Scenic Suites Queenstown, Heartland Hotel Queenstown, Scenic Hotel Dunedin City, Scenic Hotel Bay of Islands in Paihia, Scenic Hotel Marlborough in Blenheim, Scenic Hotel Southern Cross, and Scenic Hotel Auckland.
scenichotelgroup.co.nz
Aeromexico goes overnight:
Aeromexico will begin an overnight Heathrow-Mexico City service from October 27. The airline said it made the change in response to requests from both leisure and business clients. The service, on Mondays, Thursdays and Saundays, will leave London at 22.30 and arrive in the Mexican capital at 05.20 the following morning.
aeromexico.com
Desert & Delta welcomes Xakanaxa
Xakanaxa Camp in the Xakanaxa region of Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana, is the latest addition to the Desert & Delta Safaris collection. Built in the early 1960s, Xakanaxa was the first camp in Moremi Game Reserve. The 12-tent camp (en-suite) offers activities that include game drives, motorboat excursions and mokoro activities.
xakanaxa-camp.com
SOUTH African Airways is running an online photography competition called ‘Capture South Africa’, designed to ‘capture the beauty and spirit of South Africa and its people’ by showcasing images under two categories: ‘People’ and ‘Landscape’. The winner of each category will receive a pair of return tickets with SAA for travel between London and South Africa, and some of the entrants will have their image used in a forthcoming SAA advertising campaign in the UK. Upload up to fi ve top photographs for either category at
capturesouthafrica.com throughout September. An overall winner will be chosen next month (October).
The best of Rockford
ROCKFORD, Illinois, has a brand-new brochure for the travel trade. ‘Rockford, The Midwest at Its Best!’ contains facts about the region to help drive sales. It includes suggested itineraries within the Great Lakes area, attractions in Rockford, such as Anderson Japanese Gardens and the Burpee Museum of Natural History, and details on how to get there, when to visit and the history of the area. The A5 booklet will be distributed at training events, exhibitions and shows,
or
upon request at info@cellet.
co.uk; gorockford.
co.uk
Fort Lauderdale boss aims to put UK back on top
BY ALAN ORBELL NEW VP of Tourism and International Business at Greater
Fort Lauderdale
C&VB, Fernando Harb, wants to restore the UK to its number one position in terms of
enjoyed for several
relinquished to Brazil. Harb said that for many years Fort
Lauderdale was “almost a suburb of Miami”, even though it recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. “The new Fort Lauderdale really started in 2007 and we now have more hotels, a more relaxed atmosphere and certainly appeal more to families. We’re family friendly and kid
visitor arrivals, a position it years but has
orientated. On top of that our hotel rates are much lower than Miami.” Already enjoying international flights from Frankfurt and Oslo, Fort Lauderdale’s airport is adding nine new international gates. “If we build it they’ll come” hopes Harb, in terms of ex-UK flights. A rail link between the airport and downtown is planned by 2016. Believing that “there is no better way to sell it than to see it”, Harb says that fam trip budgets are being “seriously increased”. Harb took over from Alfredo Gonzalez, Brand USA’s new Senior Vice President, Global Partnership Development.
sunny.org
SOUTH AFRICAN AIRWAYS PUTS TOP PICS IN THE FRAME
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