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Eight operators and two travel agencies join Aito


Eight operators and two agencies have joined The Specialist Travel Association (Aito). The operators are AmaWaterways, Discover Egypt, Exsus Travel, Imaginative Traveller, Latin Routes, The Cultural Experience, The Travel Department and Travel The Unknown, while Oasis Travel in Northern Ireland and Ocky White Travel in south Wales have joined Aito Specialist Agents.


Travelsphere and Just You expand joint sales team


G Touring brands Travelsphere and Just You are to expand their joint trade sales team. The brands are recruiting for three key account managers to cover the southeast, Scotland and Northern Ireland. They will join Phil Shipman, Rachel Mould and Darryl Gardner who cover the rest of the UK.


Michelle Baillie to leave Cook within three months


Thomas Cook’s head of retail, Michelle Baillie, is to leave within three months. Baillie joined Cook from Tui in 2016.


CroisiEurope unveils new ship Zimbabwe Dreams


CroisiEurope is to build a second ‘boutique’ ship for southern Africa. The eight-cabin vessel, Zimbabwe Dream, will launch in March 2020 and will be a sister ship to African Dream.


‘Free tech solutions solve 80% cybersecurity issues’


Juliet Dennis juliet.dennis@travelweekly.co.uk


Travel companies can reduce the risk of cyberattack by up to 80% using free technology, according to an expert.


The Global Cyber Alliance (GCA), set up three years ago to prevent cybercrime, said most travel businesses were not aware such technology exists. In the fourth phase of Profit’s Secure Our Systems campaign


against cybercrime, backed by Travel Weekly, the GCA urged companies to look at what they can do immediately to reduce risks without extra cost. Andy Bates, GCA’s executive


director for the EMEA region, said: “There is such a thing as a free solution to cybersecurity that solves 80% of security issues. There isn’t a 100% cure to all cybercrime, but you can reduce your risk of an attack and the impact.” According to the GCA,


cybercrime costs the UK £29 billion a year, nearly 1% of GDP. The GCA – set up by the New York County


Solo Traveller Report: Market has ‘large potential for growth’


Episode 4 of the Travel


Weekly podcast is out now and features Gold Medal and Travel 2 managing director Lisa McAuley. Listen and download on iTunes and Soundcloud, or visit:


go.travelweekly.co.uk/podcast


The solo travel market is growing but the mainstream industry is not doing enough to cater for this sector, according to new research. Mintel, which was due to officially


launch its 2018 Solo Traveller Report this week, highlighted “large potential” for growth in the single traveller sector, particularly in escorted group tours. The research showed 17% of


adults had taken a holiday on their 8 travelweekly.co.uk 15 November 2018 SOLOS: 52% want escorted tour


own in the past five years – a year- on-year rise of two percentage points. The majority (15%) were ‘pure solo’ travellers, not travelling with a group.


CYBERCRIME: Agencies can reduce the risk of an attack and the impact


£29bn


Cost of cybercrime each year in the UK


District Attorney and the City of London Police – has developed technology to reduce spoof emails and block dangerous websites. The alliance, which has 238 partners including Barclays, Sony and Microsoft, developed a cybersecurity configuration tool to make it easier for businesses to implement the ‘Dmarc standard’, which protects against email addresses being hijacked and


used by fraudsters to send ‘spoof’ emails. Most cybercrime originates from ‘phishing’ and 77% of mail domains can be ‘spoofed’, according to the GCA. Bates said it was easy to switch


Dmarc on, adding: “It stops people pretending to be you using email.” Computers can also be set to run Quad 9 – another GCA security tool – which blocks users from dangerous or fake websites, he added. Bates compared Dmarc to washing your hands to protect yourself from catching a flu bug and Quad 9 to immunising yourself


against bacteria. › Read more on Secure Our Systems at travelweekly.co.uk


The study found 60% of


respondents said there is a “widespread belief” the industry does not cater well enough for solo travellers, 45% believed there is still a ‘stigma’ attached to travelling alone, while 61% said it was “more of an adventure”. Mintel’s research found 52%


of solo travellers were interested in taking an escorted tour, with price and security rated the most important factors for solo travellers. More than eight in 10 respondents (85%) said single supplements were an important issue, and 65% wanted 24-hour contact with a travel company.

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