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Malta gears trade activity around raft of new flights
Ben Ireland
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Malta Tourism Authority is ramping up its trade activity, particularly with agents in regions from which flights or capacity have been added.
Trade events are planned for this month in the southwest, south Wales and southern Ireland ahead of routes starting from Exeter, Cardiff and Cork. Ryanair will fly twice-weekly
to Malta from each of the three airports next summer. Capacity will also rise on
existing routes from Manchester, Birmingham and Stansted. The tourism authority is planning face-to-face training for agents in these areas ahead of the January peak selling season. Agents will also be trained on
recently added routes to Malta. These include twice-weekly Ryanair and weekly Jet2 services from Belfast, introduced in November 2017; a three-times- a-week easyJet service from Southend, added last winter; a
15.7%
Malta’s year-on-year rise in arrivals between January and August
three-times-a-week Air Malta service, also from Southend, which launched this summer; and a twice-weekly Aberdeen-Malta Ryanair service, which was new this summer. Visitor numbers to Malta between January and August
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South African Tourism to host five agent roadshows this month
Agents are being urged to sign up for this month’s South African Tourism SAT School roadshows. The first event will take place in
Dublin on November 12, followed by Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and London over the next four days. The full-day sessions include
tips on South Africa’s unique selling points, and will feature news updates to help agents answer customers’ questions. The roadshows will be attended
were up 15.7% overall and 16.2% from the UK compared with 2017. The tourism authority’s UK and
Ireland director, Peter Vella, said the rise was the result of Malta’s year-round offering for families and couples, as well as its calendar of events. The Malta Tourism Authority
is one of the first two tourist boards to offer agents advice for LGBT travellers on the Online Travel Training site, in addition to destination training. Each month, an agent who has completed the training is picked at
random to win a £50 iTunes voucher.
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by South African Tourism’s partners, including attractions and excursion companies, airlines, tourist boards and ground-handlers. Agents will also have the chance
to win a place on the SAT School Mega Fam trip in June 2019. The UK is South Africa’s biggest
international source market. South African Tourism’s hub
head for the UK and Ireland, Tolene van der Merwe, said: “Agents are vital to helping us achieve our overarching goal of attracting four million more international tourists to South Africa by 2021, and the roadshows are a great way for us to engage with them.” Email
navreet@southafrica.net or visit
bit.ly/2ArYrob to register
and for more details.
southafrica.net/gl/en/trade
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