Scenic starts selling 2023 river itineraries


Scenic has released 24 European river itineraries for 2023 ahead of the programme’s scheduled on-sale date. Savings of up to £1,400 per couple are available on cruises on the Rhine, Main, Danube, French rivers and Russian waterways booked before September 30. scenic.co.uk


AVIATION


Loganair launches Teesside-Dublin link in 2022 programme


Loganair has included new domestic routes and its first international flights since the pandemic in its 2022 programme. A new Teesside-Dublin route


will start on May 27, and up to nine flights a week will operate between Aberdeen and Dublin. Another new route will be a


one-stop service linking Newquay with Inverness on Saturdays. There will be additional summer services from Manchester and Edinburgh to Newquay. A service from Glasgow


to Sumburgh in the Shetland Islands will operate on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays, in addition to services to Norwegian cities Stavanger and Bergen from Edinburgh and Newcastle. Flights between Edinburgh


and Cardiff will rise to six a week. loganair.co.uk


OPERATOR


G Adventures to start range of Vaccinated Tours in October


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G Adventures has introduced a programme of Vaccinated Tours on which the tour guide and all travellers will be fully vaccinated against Covid-19. The operator has also launched Travel-Ready tours,


targeted at clients and tour guides in destinations where the rollout of vaccinations may have been slower. Customers and guides on Travel-Ready tours must


have either received a full Covid-19 vaccination or have a negative PCR test taken within 96 hours before the first day of their tour’s departure. The operator is assisting tour guides to access


vaccines in their home countries. The new ranges come after a survey by G Adventures found 56% of travellers said having a vaccinated guide, or chief experience officer, was more important to them than their fellow travellers being fully vaccinated.


Viking ships to sail identical world cruises three days apart in 2023-24


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Viking has launched two identical 138-day World Cruises for 2023-24, departing three days apart out of Fort Lauderdale. The itineraries include overnight stays in ports such as Sydney, Haifa, Istanbul, Auckland, Bali, Ho Chi Minh City and Mumbai. Viking Sky will depart on December 20, followed by Viking Neptune on December 23. Prices start from £39,990. vikingcruises.co.uk


The two programmes launch in October, with 304


Vaccinated Tours and 64 Travel-Ready departures that month. An icon will feature next to each trip on the operator’s website to indicate the category of tour. Jeff Russill, chief operating officer at G Adventures,


said: “By October, we will have successfully, and safely, run close to 1,000 tours since September 2020, supporting employment and the local economies of countries that are dependent on tourism, such as Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Morocco, Peru and Kenya. “As a global operator, we also want to ensure travel


equity for those travellers who haven’t been able to be vaccinated as yet due to their age and/or home country, as we have travellers from more than 160 countries join our trips. We expect vaccination rates to increase in most destinations later this year and, as they do, we will be operating even more Vaccinated Tours.” gadventures.com


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Emirates to revive Newcastle link and boost flights from Heathrow


Emirates will resume its Newcastle-Dubai service on October 15. The Gulf carrier will offer four flights a week in two classes aboard Boeing 777 aircraft. It will also increase operations from Heathrow in a phased manner that will see it offering six flights a day – with five Airbus A380 services – by October 31. emiratesagents.com


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