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ITC to host 100 agents in Cotswolds for its awards


Juliet Dennis juliet.dennis@travelweekly.co.uk


The ITC Travel Group is to treat its 100 top-performing travel agents to an overnight stay and awards dinner at a luxury hotel in the Cotswolds.


The group, which includes


operators Inspiring Travel Company, Rainbow Tours and Regent Holidays, normally hosts its annual awards at a London hotel, but for the first time will offer its bestselling agents a stay at The Fish Hotel, Worcestershire, which it is taking over on November 28. The event will also include an


afternoon tea and business update and will be held with supplier partners.


Agency sales director Lee Marshall said: “We have listened to our agent audience and are doing something really different.” Meanwhile, Rainbow Tours is to


hold its first-ever fam trip to see the “real Africa”.


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Jet2holidays adds destinations in Croatia and Greece for 2020


Jet2.com and Jet2holidays has added adar in Croatia and Preveza in Greece for summer 2020. The company will operate four weekly flights to


Preveza from Birmingham, Stansted and Manchester, and twice-weekly flights to adar from Stansted and Manchester.


NEWS IN BRIEF


Wendy Wu Tours touts flight upgrades for April bookings


Wendy Wu Tours is offering free return premium economy upgrades with Air China on selected tours to Japan and China. The operator is also offering free one-way premium economy upgrades with British Airways to India and with Eva Air to southeast Asia. The offer is valid for bookings made by April 30, flying from Heathrow. wendywutours.co.uk


Nobu Hotel Los Cabos is brand’s first in Mexico


Nobu Hotel Los Cabos has opened in Mexico. The 200-room property is the brand’s first hotel in Mexico and is located on the southernmost tip of the Baja Peninsula. nobuhotels.com/loscabos


THE FISH HOTEL: ITC has booked the property exclusively for its event


“We have listened to our agents and are doing something really different”


The trip, worth £10,000, will take


eight top-performing agents on an eight-night trip at the end of June.


One of the places will be awarded through a sales incentive, running this month. The trip will include visits to the Hluhluwe and Phinda private reserves, Drakensberg mountains and Durban. Regent will host a fam trip to


Iceland in September, while ITC has educationals to the Caribbean,


Europe, Abu Dhabi and California. inspiringtravelcompany.co.uk


The new flights and holidays are available from May


to November next year and tickets are now on sale. A seven-night package to adar costs £559 per


person based on two sharing at the three-star Hotel Kornati. The price includes breakfast and flights from Manchester, departing on October 4. A week in efkas, Greece, is priced from £489 including bed and breakfast at the Red Tower Hotel, departing from Manchester on May 10. Both packages include a 22kg baggage allowance


and return transfers. trade.jet2holidays.com


Toyah to sing at Warner’s 80s Festival in Wales


Eighties popstar Toyah Wilcox will headline Warner Leisure Hotels’ 80s Festival show at Bodelwyddan Castle on June 28. The 80s Festival break is priced from £320 and includes a three-night weekend stay based on two adults sharing a standard room inclusive of the Simply Dine package. bourneleisuresales.co.uk


Virgin and Delta to return to Gatwick with US routes


Virgin Atlantic and Delta will return to Gatwick with two new routes to Boston and New York JFK from summer 2020. The transatlantic partnership carriers will offer up to 18 daily flights between the UK and Boston and JFK. The full schedule will be announced later this year. fly.virgin.com / delta.com


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