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NEWS ROUND-UP


Greece confident Cook


won’t have an impact Greece’s new tourism minister has shrugged off the impact of the Thomas Cook collapse. Harry Theoharis said: “We are a strong destination and that’s why we feel we have a chance to replace the [airline] slots and hotels [formerly used by Thomas Cook]. We are pretty confident the impact will be minimal and not long-lasting.” The destination will urge operators to lengthen their summer seasons.


LONDON 4–6 November 2019


Tui has ‘big opportunity’ in Tunisia


Te collapse of Tomas Cook presents a “big opportu- nity” for Tui in Tunisia, the tourism minister has said. René Trabelsi said Cook accounted for 50% of UK


visitors to Tunisia. Last year, Tui reintroduced a small programme to Hammamet, three years aſter a terrorist atack in Sousse killed 30 of its British customers. Trabelsi said: “It’s a good opportunity for Tui to


position itself with bigger capacities. Tui has added five flights since Tomas Cook collapsed, but there are other


tour operators in the pipeline, so there’s a big opportunity for everyone.” He revealed Tunisian hotels impacted by Cook’s collapse


were seeking to postpone loan payments to banks and claim tax back. About 40 hotels were owed money by the travel giant when it failed in September. Trabelsi said hoteliers had invested heavily in upgrading


properties over the years and were struggling to pay off debts aſter being leſt out pocket by Cook’s collapse.


Egyptian tourism makes record $12.6bn


Egypt’s tourism sector generated $12.6 billion in revenue in 2018-19, its highest-ever, despite a four-year UK flight ban to Sharm el-Sheikh. Tourism minister Rania Al-Mashat said global tourist arrivals this year had already topped 12 million and she predicted the full-year figure would exceed the peak in 2010 of 13.6 million. She said the impact of Thomas Cook’s collapse had been minimal.


EASYJET ADDS SHARM: EasyJet Holidays hopes to include up to 24 hotels in Hurghada (pictured) and Sharm el-Sheikh in its debut Egypt programme when the operator relaunches at the end of the year. Paul Bixby, easyJet Holidays’ strategy and sourcing director, said there was “a big opportunity” in the country, adding that a decision to increase capacity in the Red Sea had been made before the Sharm flight ban was lifted last month. Bixby said: “We will offer a selection of hotels that we know are popular in Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh entering summer 2020. We would like to keep it small – 10 to 12 in each.”


Sri Lanka unveils plans to rebuild tourism


Sri Lanka hopes to rebuild tourism as an even bigger industry than before the Easter terror attacks. The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau said the destination had “bounced back” thanks to global support and that there were plans to invite more travel agents to visit in 2020.


Rania Al- Mashat


No-deal Brexit ‘could hit 10m UK trips’


About 10 million outbound departures could be lost if the UK crashes out of the EU without a trade deal, a global marketing research company has warned. Euromonitor International head


of travel Caroline Bremner warned of a return to a market similar to


2008 when the UK suffered an economic recession. “If we crash out with no deal,


that would definitely write off 10 million outbound departures. We would go back to the economy growth of 2008 in terms of travel departures.”


Z See our WTM highlights: tinyurl.com/WTM2019highlights Z Full coverage: tinyurl.com/WTM2019news 8 7 NOVEMBER 2019 travelweekly.co.uk


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