Club Med launches agent portal


Phil Davies phil.davies@travelweekly.co.uk


Club Med has created a dedicated UK trade website to help boost bookings by agents.


The Clubmedagents.co.uk site


has key information on consumer and trade trends, agent offers, useful links and marketing and sales tools. The all-inclusive resort


operator’s new platform links to the Club Med agent booking engine at Easyclubmed.com, providing agents with an integrated system to find information and then book holidays online in one place. Functionality will be added for agents to personalise point-of-sale


UK PORTAL: Agent site will feature offers and sales tools


material with their logo and a call to action. It will also feature links to new e-learning modules and monthly webinars


to increase product knowledge. The aim is to provide everything


an agent needs to complete a Club Med booking, said UK and Scandinavia managing director Estelle Giraudeau.


An online competition to win a


stay for two people is being run to mark the launch. To enter, register on the website and fill in a short survey by August 19. The site will include key


product information, trade-related news, special offers, incentives, unique selling points for each resort, marketing and sales tools including online brochures, resort presentations, images and videos, details of agent loyalty schemes


and access to a weekly newsletter. clubmedagents.co.uk


SuperBreak offers packages to Ireland’s only theme park


SuperBreak is now offering short breaks to Ireland’s only theme park, Tayto Park in County Meath. The theme park and zoo has more than 100 attractions including the 32-metre-high Cu Chulainn Rollercoaster, the largest inverted wooden coaster in Europe, which has drops of 29 metres. Packages include a stay at the


four-star D Hotel in Drogheda – a 30-minute drive from the park. Two nights for a family of four including a return ferry from Liverpool to Dublin with a car and one-day park passes costs £849 in mid-August. One-night packages


are also available. superbreak.com/agents


NEWS IN BRIEF


Free baggage allowance available on Jet2CityBreaks


Jet2CityBreaks is now offering free 22kg baggage allowance on trips to its 30 destinations, excluding Christmas market New York bookings from Leeds Bradford or Newcastle airports. This is in addition to 10kg of free hand baggage. tradesite.jet2holidays.com


Crystal Ski moves to train transfers from December


Crystal Ski Holidays is to switch from coach to train transfers for all Swiss ski resorts from December. All bookings made before December 15 will receive a first-class upgrade. Prices remain the same. crystalski.co.uk


Simply Sweden offers lodge exclusively through trade


Simply Sweden is offering a new break exclusively via the trade, paying 10% commission. The homestead Fjellborg Arctic Lodge in Swedish Lapland can be booked for up to eight clients for a two or three-night break and includes husky racing and ice-fishing. Prices start at £3,695. simplysweden.co.uk


Diamond Rail Holidays adds Costa del Azahar tour


Diamond Rail Holidays has added a tour to Spain’s Costa del Azahar for 2016-17. The eight- day Valencia and the Orange Blossom Coast tour is based in Peniscola and starts at £849. diamondrailholidays.co.uk


Best Served Scandinavia unveils two new winter tours


Best Served Scandinavia’s winter 2016-17 brochure introduces a four-day ice-skating holiday in Finland for £775, and a six- day Northern Lights & Whale Watching tour in Norway, from £1,070. It offers 12.5% commission. best-served.co.uk


TAYTOPARK: Packages available 32 travelweekly.co.uk 28 July 2016


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