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WEEK Contents


NEWS Hot Stories


Midcounties to rebrand shops as Co-op; Brexit ‘breakthrough’ with visa-free plan; Agent seals £83k Scenic Eclipse booking; River sector ‘ripe for consolidation’; Firms warned against ‘knee-jerk’ reaction


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Round-up SOS tech solutions; solo traveller report 08 Fred in Nat Geo deal; Movers & Shakers


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A trip to Disneyland Paris during Legends of the Force season next year page 46


Special Reports Clia River Cruise Conference, Paris


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Cosmopolitan editor at Executive Lunch 14 Talk Back


21 Norwegian, Vietnam visas, Townsley gift


NEWS YOU CAN USE Product Inghams, Marella, Kuoni, Exodus 23


Cruise American Queen, Royal, Seabourn 24 WTM 2018 Gardaland, Tui, Malaysia


27 WTM 2018 Caribbean campaign, Tobago 31


FRONTLINE Comment Gordon McCreadie, If Only


A Day in the Life Rachael Belshaw Mystery Shopper Southampton


DESTINATIONS


Aviation Training: Help your bookings take off


Escorted Tours Norway: A hit for escorted touring Silk Road: Six of the best tours


FRONT COVER Royal Caribbean wedding winners Natasha and Bradley Ashford


page 32 BUSINESS


Breakfast: Mergers & acquisitions event 84 ITCMS 2018: Guevara issues warning; crisis experts talk checklists and resilience


86 54 Fear of Flying: BA course calms nerves 63 WHAT


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LUCY DID THIS WEEK


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Moderated the Clia River Cruise Conference in Paris; stayed on two river ships and sailed past the Eiffel Tower and other famous sights.


Hosted a Travel Weekly Business Breakfast on staff recruitment, training, development and retention in the travel sector.


Ran 5km by the Seine with Clia’s Andy Harmer, Avalon’s Giles Hawke, ex-Club Med manager Yann Richard and Travel Weekly’s Stuart Parish.


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Take Off in Travel, designed to showcase the fantastic and diverse employment opportunities in our sector. This is always a highlight for me, demonstrating not only


A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR New talent is reassuring T


Travel Weekly’s passion for tomorrow’s industry, but also shining a light on those companies committed to finding and nurturing the stars of the future. In addition to our regular partner Abta and our headline sponsor MSC Cruises, we had a record number of firms support the publication this year, which was particularly encouraging given the challenges the industry faces. With so much political and economic uncertainty, it


would be easy to relegate training and development to a back seat. But if anything, our speakers felt companies were treating it more seriously. There is still a degree of misunderstanding about


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apprenticeships, and many companies are still getting to grips with new regulation and funding, but participation in apprenticeship schemes is “climbing steeply” and more firms are forming coherent training programmes (page 6). There are still areas of concern, including a dip in applicants for traditional academic courses and the potential impact of Brexit on firms and their workers, but the speakers were confident that travel was increasingly seen as a credible and rewarding career choice. The benefits of attracting the best young people to our sector are undeniable. As one speaker said: “The performance and ideas we see from our new talent are absolutely inspiring.” Long may that continue. Check out Take Off in Travel at takeoffintravel.co.uk


his week, I opened our annual launch event for Travel Weekly’s prospectus-style careers magazine


Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley


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