NEWS YOU CAN USE Red Sea Holidays starts expansion by adding Tunisia


Product and supplier news to help you sell more Rebekah Commane


Egyptian specialist Red Sea Holidays is expanding into Tunisia in May.


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offering Morocco in 2016 and setting its sights farther afield to include European destinations. Deputy managing director Jason Hilton said now was the right time to look at offerings outside of the Red Sea, as Egypt becomes more politically stable. “We wanted to branch out 18


months ago, but as there was still political unrest in Egypt, it didn’t seem right,” said Hilton. “The market is looking stronger, with sales coming back to where they were prior to the unrest. “The main resorts were not


massively affected anyway. Luxor was the hardest hit, but is starting to come back too, with numbers increasing on a weekly basis.” Red Sea Holidays undertook


market research to ascertain whether adding other countries would confuse customers. “We found that it didn’t bother them. Some said it was like British Gas selling electricity.” A creative agency was tasked


Red Sead Holidays will offer Tunisia from May


with devising a new tagline, as ‘The Egyptian Experts’ no longer fitted the bill.


Hilton said the new strapline,


‘We Go Further’, referenced the new destination and the customer service that can be expected. Tunisia and the island of Djerba will be served by flights from Gatwick, Birmingham and Manchester airports. Departures from Scotland and Newcastle are also in the pipeline. In Egypt, the operator has added properties in Marsa Alam and El Gouna. Flights from Belfast and Dublin


to Sharm El Sheikh are being introduced in May. After gauging Tunisia’s


performance, which Hilton expects to account for 10% of sales, the operator will look at including Morocco in 2016. Hilton added that the operator was also considering expanding to Turkey, Crete and Rhodes. redsea holidays. co.uk


Jason Hilton


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