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WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF FUN: Carnival Cruise Line has named the 12 agents who will be its Fun Ambassadors for 2020, up from eight this year. The ambassadors will go on a trip to Ibiza, receive double Loyalty Rocks points on all bookings, and attend three board meetings and the 2020 Clia Conference. They will also sail on 5,200-passenger ship Mardi Gras. The group was treated to a day out at trampoline park Flip Out in London. The ambassadors are: Chesney Miller, Barrhead Travel; Joseph Walker, Bolsover Cruise Club; Sally Walker,
Cruise.co.uk; Kal Sindhu, Travelbag; Jessica Hartley, Vision Cruise; Mem Adem, Cruise1st; Toni Hill, Cruise365; Jed Wakefield-Coombes, Hays Travel; Gemma Buckley, Virgin Holidays; Greg Hill, Cruise118; Samantha Storey, Cruise Nation; and Beth Hulett,
Iglu.com.
EasyJet Holidays relaunches with 25% bigger Atol licence
Lee Hayhurst
EasyJet this week confirmed a permanent head of distribution role and revealed a larger Atol licence as it relaunched its holidays division. Si Morris-Green,
to consumers” before 2020 and that “we haven’t confirmed [trade] timings”. EasyJet did confirm it had been
who had been working in a consultancy role, was appointed to the new full-time position. He will host trade days this month – but easyJet admitted it still had no launch date for its easyJet Holidays agent portal. Chief executive Garry Wilson
had suggested, during Abta’s Travel Convention in October, that the trade portal would be ready in time for the brand’s relaunch. But a spokeswoman this week said the relaunch “was only ever going to be
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granted a temporary Atol licence for one million customers a year – 200,000 more than its previous total – by the CAA, as the regulator reviews figures after Thomas Cook’s failure. It came as easyJet
Holidays kicked off a major online, offline and TV
marketing campaign which aims to hit 97% of its target ABC1 consumers 19 times each ahead of peaks. Commenting on opportunities
for agents, Wilson said: “Clearly, we are an online business. The number of online bookings we do is significantly higher than our competition. But we do see a place for travel agents. “What we do not want to add is
complexity in the business because that adds cost and destroys value. “If we are able to work with the
trade in a way that’s very simple, clear and transparent and does not involve a huge amount of cost, we will be absolutely open to that. “We are speaking to a number of
players and they are very responsive to our position. Certainly, we are very
open to the trade to sell our holidays.” A spokeswoman said: “We are
still in discussions with the trade. We have not yet signed any partners.” Morris-Green left his role as
EasyJet Holidays’ TV advert launched last week
marketing director at Worldchoice and Travel Trust Association parent The Travel Network Group in February. Paul Ablin, chief operating
officer at easyJet Holidays, said: “Si will be looking after relationships with key partners, which includes sales through external parties and our contact centre. He’ll also be continuing to explore how we might be able to work with the trade.” Wilson said the brand would
not be specifically targeting former Thomas Cook customers following its collapse but would “welcome them” if they wanted to book with easyJet.
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