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Just You offers land-only and new deposits scheme
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
Singles specialist Just You is to offer land-only trips for the first time and a protected deposit scheme as part of a broader strategy to capture new customers.
The operator has revamped the
look and feel of its 2019 Europe & Worldwide brochure, and its logo, after extensive research into the solo travel market. It has added 11 tours worldwide
for 2019, with new destinations including Georgia, in eastern Europe, and Pantelleria, an island in Italy described as the ‘black pearl’ of the Mediterranean, and new tours including Jordan, Costa Rica and India’s Maharaja Express. The operator has a new strapline,
‘Solo Adventures Together’, and is backing up its focus on the brand with a larger advertising spend. It is halfway through a two-year
OPERATOR
Sandals to hold wedding training sessions for trade around the UK
Sandals and Beaches Resorts is to host training sessions for agents around the UK about its wedding programme. Agents will be able to expand their knowledge
about the resort operator’s recently launched ‘Aisle to Isle’ wedding offering, which features several Caribbean-themed ‘inspirations’.
JUST YOU:Operator has added 11 tours worldwide for next year
strategy to double UK trade sales. Alastair Campbell, managing
director, said: “We want to push the business forward and reach new customers. To do that we need to make more of a splash in the marketplace to remind people we are specialists in the
solo market. This sector is one of the fastest-growing and sales are growing fast through the trade.” Its new ‘Make Your Own Way’ option, also available through sister brand Travelsphere, allows clients to book their own flights and transfers to the first hotel on a tour. Previously all product was offered as flight and land packages. “It’s just about giving customers
choice,” added Campbell. Also new are protected deposits,
which allow clients to cancel and postpone their trip and transfer the deposit for use at a later date at no extra charge. This is similar to a scheme already offered by parent brand G Adventures. The brochure features 119 solo tours in total, with 522 individual
guaranteed departure dates.
justyou.co.uk › Travelsphere, page 28
Day-long sessions will combine Sandals
WeddingMoon specialist training with a Sandals Mini MasterClass about the operator’s latest product news. Sessions begin on September 25 in Lincoln, to be
followed by events in Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Maidstone, Cambridge and Norwich. Separate full-day intensive Sandals training
programmes, which touch on the Aisle to Isle programme, are also available from September 19. The first one takes place in Canterbury, and is followed by sessions in Tunbridge Wells, London,
Preston, Southampton, Warrington and Staffordshire.
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Jet2 increases flights to Bulgaria for next summer
Jet2holidays is increasing capacity to Bourgas, Bulgaria, a new destination for summer 2019, with two extra weekly
Jet2.com flights, from Leeds Bradford and Manchester.
tradesite.jet2holidays.com
Advantage to host over-50s training session in October
Advantage Travel Partnership will host its first agent training session for selling to the over-50 market on October 16. Agents taking Silver Traveller Training, in partnership with Silver Travel Advisor, become an accredited Silver Travel Advisor Agent.
tinyurl.com/AdvSilver
Etihad offers Abu Dhabi prize as training incentive
Agents who complete Etihad Airways’ new online training course could win a three-night holiday for two to Abu Dhabi. To be in with a chance, complete the five modules to become a certified Etihad Airways specialist by September 30.
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