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Tui puts summer 2020 on sale and adds Los Cabos
Lucy Huxley
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Tui has put its summer 2020 programme on sale early and announced the first direct flight from the UK to Los Cabos in Mexico for winter 2019.
Los Cabos, famous as a holiday hangout of celebrities such as George Clooney, Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston, will be served by a flight from Gatwick from November 2019. UK & Ireland managing director
Andrew Flintham said Tui had seen a resurgence in mid-haul destinations this year, but customers were still looking for “more exotic destinations”. “Mexico is our most popular long-haul gateway,” he said. “We are the market leaders to Cancun and to Puerto Vallarta, but we are excited to announce the first direct flight to Los Cabos.” The Tui Airways flight will
serve 13 hotels across two main resorts: Cabo San Lucas and San
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The Goa Experience adds Kerala hotels and twin-centre options
The Goa Experience has unveiled a range of Kerala holidays that it says offers easy access to the beaches and backwaters of the southern Indian state. The Goa specialist features eight new properties in Kerala, from beachfront hotels to luxury boutiques.
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Ryanair’s reduced carry-on baggage policy starts
Ryanair’s new baggage policy came into force last week, meaning free cabin baggage allowance is reduced to nothing bigger than a handbag or laptop case unless passengers pay £6 for priority boarding. Priority boarders can continue to bring two carry-on bags.
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Loganair adds four routes from Edinburgh for 2019
LOS CABOS: Tui offers first direct UK flights to Mexican celebrity hangout
Jose del Cabo. Hotels include Riu properties, the Santa Fe and Baja California, plus the Hard Rock Hotel Los Cabos. Tui will offer seven, 10, 11 and 14-night breaks. Flintham also announced that
Tui’s summer 2020 programme would go on sale four months earlier than usual, on November 8, the earliest Tui has sold its summer programme. It includes new flights from Doncaster Sheffield airport to Cancun and thousands of free kids places at own-brand hotels Tui
Sensatori, Tui Family Life, First Choice Splashworld, First Choice Holiday Village and SuneoClub. There are also new services
from Manchester to Puerto Vallarta this winter and six new routes to Hurghada across winter 2019 and summer 2020. Flintham said “it’s been an
interesting summer for the whole industry” with the UK heatwave and England’s World Cup success, while “the only island anyone was
talking about was Love Island”.
tui.co.uk
Kerala can be booked as an add-on to Goa holidays, as a twin-centre with Kovalam or Alleppey, or for standalone trips of seven nights or more. A seven-night Kerala Highlights tour, with a night on the backwaters, Cochin visit, treks and boat rides, starts from £1,479. Agents who book five holidays with any of The Goa Experience parent Serenity Holidays’ six brands – others include Corsican Places and The Gambia Experience – by November 30 qualify for a year’s
subscription to Spotify Premium or a £100 alternative.
goaexperience.co.uk/hotels/kerala
8 November 2018
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Loganair is to add four routes from Edinburgh for summer 2019 aboard aircraft with fewer than 40 seats. It will start year- round services to Bergen and Stavanger, both Norway; the Hebridean island of Islay from March; and a weekly service to Guernsey from May to September.
loganair.co.uk
Visit Orlando releases list of 20 festive activities
Visit Orlando has compiled a list of 20 festive activities to help agents sell last-minute Christmas and New Year breaks.
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