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NEWS Hot Stories
Tui agent killer sentenced to life in jail; OTAs boost Atol capacity by 600,000; Liverpool to build new £50m cruise port; NDC ‘will leave agents on the sidelines’, plus a brief history of GDSs’ evolution
Round-up Universal; Virgin Holidays; Uniworld
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A seven-night river cruise on the Rhine and Moselle with A-Rosa page 42
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Nuttall on rail fares; CroisiEurope plans 10 Travel’s gender pay gap; Jetset fam trips 12
Interview
If Only’s Andy Freeth, Gordon McCreadie Talk Back
Indies; Liverpool cruise; BA Holidays
NEWS YOU CAN USE Product Jet2, Ethiopian, Isango!, APT
Events Sandals, Visit Orlando 14 17 04 21 22
Cruise A-Rosa, Royal, P&O, Ponant, Tauck 24 Operator Jetset, Balkan, Ramblers, ITC 27
FRONTLINE Comment Gemma Antrobus: pay gap
Readers’ Lives Cover Star Marie Orpe Mystery Shopper Norwich
DESTINATIONS
Hotels, Resorts & Spas 8 of the Best: Outdoor spas
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Beijing: hutongs, art zone, skyscrapers 55 Caribbean: Hotel extras for couples
COVERSTAR Co-operative Personal Travel Advisors Marie Orpe at Creston Ranch, California
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Scandinavia Stockholm: 48 hours in Swedish capital 66
BUSINESS
Travel Weekly Business Breakfast Experts debate the Future of Airline Distribution and the effects of NDC
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LUCY DID THISWEEK
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Met agents from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the US, India, Romania, Cyprus and Malta at Clia’s Asia cruise event in Vietnam.
Was amazed to experience fresh powder on an Easter ski trip to Belle Plagne – the snow conditions have been fantastic this season.
Helped my sister and her daughters choose their new puppy – a cocker spaniel called Roof-rack. So jealous...I want a dog!
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of my team. But the last couple of weeks have seen me hotfooting
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR What a wonderful world! D
it from the UK to the French Alps, then out to Vietnam via Singapore. In fact, I’m writing this from the amazing Ho Chi Minh City where I’m moderating Clia’s first global river cruise event in Asia. It’s great to experience first-hand some of the products
and destinations that we write about, and you sell, week in, week out. Last week, while staying in a fantastic Pierres & Vacances apartment in Belle Plagne, I visited Neilson’s new Turquoise chalet hotel – perfect for families after a day on the slopes. Twenty four hours later I was checking in at Heathrow for a Singapore Airlines flight and was wowed by the onboard food, comfort and service. Here in Ho Chi Minh, seeing really is believing. I’d heard
how frenetic the city was, but nothing prepares you for crossing the road. There are mopeds everywhere – even on the pavements – and they stop for nothing. We saw one carrying a family of five and a chicken! The noise, sights and smells are truly incredible –
what a privilege to experience it. I’m travelling again in the next few weeks to
see Carnival Horizon in Italy, to the launch of Marella Explorer in Barcelona and to the Advantage conference in Miami. Just as here in Vietnam, I’m looking forward
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to making the most of seeing and experiencing new places because, after all, that’s what this wonderful industry of ours is all about.
espite being editor-in-chief of Travel Weekly, I actually don’t get to travel anywhere near as much as many
Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley
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