OPERATOR
Cox & Kings cuts group sizes and some single supplements
Cox & Kings has reduced maximum group sizes and axed single supplements for the first solo places booked on most tours. The luxury group tours
specialist unveiled the changes with the launch of its North Africa, Middle East and Central Asia 2021 programme. The range focuses on Cox &
Kings’ best-selling tours and also features Lebanon for the first time after its soft-launch this year. The seven-night Lebanon:
Land of the Phoenicians tour takes in the ports of Byblos and Sidon, capital Beirut and Roman remains at Baalbek, and costs from £1,795. Cox & Kings has also brought
in new safety and hygiene protocols, and larger vehicles to provide more space while travelling. Maximum group sizes have been cut from 26 to 18 clients, with an average of 14 per tour across its programme. For most of its tours the
operator has scrapped the single supplement for the first three places booked for single travellers.
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Roman temple of Bacchus in Baalbek
City Cruises’ Millennium Diamond on the Thames
DOMESTIC
City Cruises targets the trade as it introduces open tickets
Juliet Dennis
UK sightseeing specialist City Cruises is targeting more business from agents as the trade homes in on the domestic market this summer. The tour boat operator, which resumes sailings
in London, York and Poole on July 4, is in talks with consortia keen to ramp up their UK product offering. Commission of 10% to 15% is available to agents
who book the operator’s sightseeing and dinner cruises. Around 60% of sales already come from operators,
wholesalers and online agents but few traditional agents currently book City Cruises, said managing director Kyle Haughton. Targeting a 5% increase in trade sales, he said: “We’ve
been banging the drum for a number of years to get agents to book our product. It’s a great opportunity to increase yields. UK attractions are a huge market that doesn’t
DOMESTIC
Great Little Breaks signals addition of UK rail trips by end of August The operator began selling
Great Little Breaks is on track to launch UK rail packages from the end of August. The operator is testing its new
online rail booking system and is confident it will be ready for agents by the end of the summer.
travelweekly.co.uk All rail trips will need to be
booked as part of a hotel package and will be Abta-bonded. Great Little Breaks also
aims to make theatre packages available once it is clear when theatres will reopen.
proactively through the trade in January and is targeting 50% of sales from the trade in the next 12 months. Currently about 20% of its 250 hotel partners are on sale.
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get focused on as much by agents as it did in the past.” The operator, which has introduced ‘Covid-secure’
measures and will require all passengers to wear masks, is offering a reduced product range from July 4. Passenger capacity has been reduced from 400 per
sightseeing cruise to 130 and from 100 to 46 on dining cruises to meet social distancing guidelines. City Cruises has also introduced open tickets,
allowing agents to book customers without having to commit to a specific date. In London, these include the 24-hour Sightseeing Flexible Open Pass, from £19, to see the capital’s landmarks; the Daytime Dining Pass, from £35, for lunch, afternoon tea or an evening cruise; and the Thames Flexible Dinner Pass, for showboat or jazz entertainment with a sit-down meal, from £82. In Poole, the Jurassic Circular Cruise costs from £15,
while in York an afternoon tea cruise costs from £28.50.
citycruises.com
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