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Game of Thrones fans will clamour to book new Just Go! Holidays tour


Just Go! Holidays has a four-day Game of Thrones break that visits the fantasy series’ new studio tour attraction and filming locations in Northern Ireland. Tours cost from £499 and include trips to the Giant’s Causeway and Belfast plus flights. Sister brand National Holidays offers four-day tours with the same itinerary by coach, from £399. Departures are from May 11 to October 19. nationalholidays.com/agents justgoholidays.com/agents


Explore expands domestic programme with four activity tours


Adventure tour operator Explore has added four UK escorted activity tours. The Walk West Cornwall tour


costs from £1,245 including five nights’ B&B. Based in Penzance, it visits St Ives, Mousehole, St Michael’s Mount and Land’s End. The Cycle Devon – Coast


to Coast holiday follows the 102-mile Devon coast-to-coast route. It costs from £925 and includes three nights’ B&B. Also in the same county is


the Walk Devon – Dartmoor and South West Coast Path holiday, from £1,225 for five nights. The fourth itinerary is the


Yorkshire Dales Walking holiday, from £1,325 for a five-night tour. Global sales director Ben


Ittensohn said: “Our partners can offer UK trips in a way customers couldn’t easily do on their own.” explore.co.uk


Ffestiniog unveils rail tours of Wales


Rail holiday specialist Ffestiniog Travel has launched three escorted tours showcasing the heritage and landscape of its home country of Wales. The tours cost from £840 for a five-day Ffestiniog & Welsh Highland Railways – Behind the Scenes tour. The other two Wales itineraries are Steam, Castles & Slate and From North to South. ffestiniogtravel.com


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Shearings introduces 25 tours in Europe 2022-23 collection


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Shearings has released its European Collection brochure, which features more than 70 tours, including 25 new holidays. The 100-page brochure offers holidays ranging from


four-day breaks to 16-day tours and covers departures from March 2022 to October 2023. There is also an expanded selection of river cruises,


with eight new options. New tours include a 12-day Classical Italy coach tour


from £849, which visits Siena, Rome, Florence and Pisa. The price includes coach travel, 11 nights’ B&B and nine evening meals. Also new is Imperial Capitals – Prague, Budapest


and Vienna, which costs from £839, including coach travel, eight nights’ B&B and six evening meals. Other new tours visit regions such as Alsace in


France, Bruges and Ghent in Belgium, as well as Portugal, Italy and Croatia.


Garden attractions feature among the new range.


They include Monet’s Garden, the gardens of Versailles, and Floriade 2022, a horticultural exhibition held every 10 years in the Netherlands. Ashley Dellow, Leger Shearings Group’s head of


retail sales, said the launch follows “the huge success of the UK brochure”. “Without a doubt, demand for travel has returned


within our sector and Shearings achieved record- breaking sales in January,” he added. “The timing of this brochure is part of our forward


strategy, to continuously offer our trade partners the best, most popular destinations, combined with a steady flow of new tours, giving agents the opportunity to regularly engage with their customers.” Agents can view the brochure online or request a


print copy from BP’s Trade Gate. A ‘super-low’ deposit of £1 is available until


February 28, after which it will be £25. shearings.com/login-agent


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Fred Holidays offers lap of luxury on vintage rail trip in Switzerland


Fred Holidays Rail Journeys has launched a Vintage Trains of Switzerland package. The seven-day holiday combines five-star accommodation and journeys on the Glacier Pullman Express and the Golden Pass, with first-class rail travel throughout. It includes return flights to Geneva, and accommodation in Montreux, Zermatt, Andermatt and St Moritz, with prices from £3,699. Departures are on June 23 and July 14. agentfred.co.uk


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