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Pure Luxury adds cruises and jet charters for 2019
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Trade-only tour operator Pure Luxury has added cruise packages and private jet charters for the first time in its 2019 brochure.
There are also 60 new
properties, two new self-drives and four new multi-centre itineraries in the brochure by Gold Medal’s sister brand. Cruise holiday packages have been introduced to capitalise on the growth in popularity of cruising in the UK market, and combine flights, pre and post- accommodation and cruises. Guests on the 21-night Luxury Jewels of Arabia and the Indian Ocean itinerary join an ocean cruise with Seabourn. It leads in at £6,889. The 12-night Luxury Barbados package combines a stay at the Sandy Lane Resort with a Silversea Caribbean cruise and starts from £7,259. Agents will be able to charter
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TourHound in discussions with agencies to capitalise on growth
TourHound, an aggregator of escorted touring and adventure holidays, is in talks with agency groups as it looks to build on ‘phenomenal’ growth in its first year. Managing director Laurence Hicks established the price-comparison site in November 2017 with 20
“Jet travel is opening up with companies offering greater accessibility and clearer pricing”
PURE LUXURY: Capitalising on popularity of cruising in the UK
private jets for their clients for the first time. They can choose from a network of 7,000 aircraft through Pure Luxury’s new partnership with PrivateFly. Simon Woodford, director of
air product at Pure Luxury parent dnata, said: “Private jet travel has traditionally been a niche offering, but the market is opening up with companies offering greater accessibility and clearer pricing.”
The brochure includes additional hotel options in Phuket and Koh Samui after Pure Luxury recorded a “particularly strong” performance in Thailand. The Keemala Phuket features ‘bird’s nest’ accommodation in the trees with a private pool for £804 per night, and the InterContinental Samui Baan Taling Ngam, has an ‘air bar’ overlooking the Gulf of Thailand, with rooms leading in at £258 per night. Both are based on two people sharing. In the past year, Pure Luxury has seen an increase in pre- booked excursions, so for 2019 it has introduced 12 fully commissionable add-ons in
Canada, Dubai and Mauritius.
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operators – there are now more than 50. He has signed white-label deals with Advantage Travel Partnership and Silver Travel Advisor, and is in talks with other consortia, agency groups and individual agencies. “It shows agents’ customers that the agent has a
touring specialism, and they have options at their fingertips. It is a useful, powerful tool, said icks. He aims to recruit a business development manager in 2019 who can work with partner travel agents to
drive their touring business via the white-label site.
tourhound.co.uk
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Jet2 introduces weekly winter flight to Lleida
Jet2.com is to run a weekly service from Stansted to Lleida, in Spain. It opens up ski options in the Catalan Pyrenees for three months from December 23.
jet2.com
Warner Leisure unveils Heythrop Park as 15th hotel
Warner Leisure Hotels has acquired the Grade II-listed Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire. The group plans to refurbish the hotel before reopening it in 2020. The 14th property in the Warner portfolio, Studley Castle in Warwickshire, will open in March following a £50 million refurbishment.
warnerleisurehotels.co.uk
South Africa changes entry requirements for children
South Africa is no longer requiring families travelling to the destination from countries whose residents do not require a visa to carry birth certificates for children. The requirement had been in place since 2015 to prevent child trafficking.
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