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Explore offers 10% discount on holidays this summer
Explore is offering 10% off holidays departing in June, July, August and September. Any bookings of small group or self-guided tours before April 30 will qualify for the saving. They include the seven- night Amalfi Coast Walking tour, now £1,031 including flights, which departs on June 2.
explore.co.uk/summersale
China Links entices agents with 25% off own trips
China Links Travel is offering agents discounts of up to 25% to go on selected small-group tours to China, Japan and Indochina. The offer covers flights, transfers, hotels, excursions and visas. They include a saving of up to £600 on the China Essential tour, departing October 18 and 25, now priced from £1,798. The offers are for an agent and a companion and are non-commissionable.
chinalinkstravel.co.uk
Rail Discoveries adds five countries to bucket list
Rail Discoveries has added five trips to “bucket-list destinations” for 2019. They include a 15-day Highlights of South Africa tour, from £2,795, and a 14-day Spectacular Southern India itinerary, from £1,795. The three other trips are to Japan; Vietnam and Cambodia; and the West Coast of the US.
raildiscoveries.com
Newmarket Holidays has £200 savings on tours
Newmarket Holidays has a range of last-minute deals offering savings of up to £200 on tours in April and May. Destinations include Italy, Croatia, the US and India. The operator’s latest Holidays & Tours brochure is also available, featuring departures up to November 2019.
newmarketholidays.co.uk
Ramblers returns to Turkey with Lycian Way itinerary
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
Ramblers Walking Holidays’ new autumn 2018 and spring 2019 brochure sees a return to Turkey and other new itineraries.
The not-for-profit operator,
which started working with the trade last year, is offering more than 140 guided walking holidays in short and long-haul destinations for autumn and next spring and has made its brochure more compact. Tours include the high-altitude
Andorra Mountain Trek, which it offers exclusively from the UK, and ‘Winter Spirit’ breaks to European walking and snowshoeing destinations. In Turkey, the 14-night The
Lycian Way, Coast & Mountains moderate walking tour featuring Fethiye, Kas and Adrasan has been reintroduced after being taken off sale last year. It follows Turkey’s first long-distance footpath from the beaches of Oludeniz to Adrasan through varied terrain including forests, mountains and gorges.
ITC group extends £100 in your Pocket incentive until June
The ITC Travel Group has extended its ‘£100 in your Pocket’ agent incentive on the back of strong take-up by the trade. The group’s first brand-wide
trade incentive will now be extended for the three brands with beach product – the Inspiring Travel Company, Western & Oriental and Villa Select – for
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NEW SIZE: The autumn/spring brochure is more compact
It includes the Tomb of Amyntas,
carved into the Fethiye hillside in 350BC, remains of the old Lycian city of Pinara, a boat trip to Kekova and the remains of a sunken Byzantine city. It leads in at £1,450 including flights to Antalya, airport transfers, accommodation, dinners, local guide and transport. Kevin O’Regan, managing
director of Ramblers Walking Holidays, said: “Following the political situation in Turkey and low demand for the tour we took the decision to rest the destination. “While it’s hard to predict
forward booking, we have been encouraged by the demand that we have seen so far and we know from previous tours that the Lycian Way is a wonderful introduction to Turkey. We are therefore anticipating very strong numbers.” Other new itineraries featured
are a seven-night Orange Blossom Coast itinerary in Spain, from £1,195; 13-night Himalayan Vistas, from £2,575; 25-night Complete New Zealand, from £6,300; and 17-night South Island Discovery,
from £5,550.
ramblersholidays.co.uk
“It’s hard to predict forward booking, but we are anticipating very strong numbers [in Turkey]”
bookings that depart before the end of June; previously, it applied to sales up to the end of April. Any new beach bookings that
depart in April, May or June will be rewarded with £100 in Compliments retail vouchers. The incentive is in addition
to ITC’s year-round incentive programme, through which agents can earn up to £500 depending on booking value. To claim £100 vouchers, agents should email booking
£100: ITC Travel Group is giving agents Compliments Vouchers
references to: onehundredpounds
inyourpocket@itc-uk.com
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