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STAR APPEAL
Entries open for 12 agents to win a breathtaking African safari as Cover Stars returns in partnership with Newmarket Holidays
Travel Weekly’s Cover Stars competition is returning with a brand-new headline partner – and it’s stepping up a gear with an incredible VIP fam trip to one of Africa’s most legendary safari destinations. For the past 15 years, our flagship travel agent competition has put frontline readers at the centre of their weekly magazine, with professional photoshoots providing front covers and first-person interviews monthly throughout the year. And for the 2027 edition,
we’ve teamed up for the first time with Newmarket Holidays to offer 12 lucky readers the chance to experience an unforgettable trip to Botswana while posing in front of some truly jaw-dropping backdrops. The Cover Stars trip will take place from
November 7-15, with our winners hosted by the stunning Chobe Safari Lodge and flights to and from Heathrow provided by airline partner Ethiopian Airlines.
BEAUTIFUL BOTSWANA Chobe Safari Lodge in Kasane, Botswana, sits directly on the banks of the Chobe River, sharing a border with Chobe National Park. Home to the greatest concentration of elephants on Earth, with herds of up to 5,000 crossing the floodplains, this is the backdrop your cover shoot deserves. Lions, buffaloes, hippos and crocodiles complete a cast that will make every frame extraordinary. This incredible setting will allow us to capture our winners in the grounds of the lodge and out
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on game drives inside Chobe National Park. River cruises, stunning sunrises and golden sunsets over the Chobe, complete with elephants at the water’s edge: these are our locations. No studio. No backdrops. Just raw, breathtaking Africa. As well as their professional photoshoot with
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award-winning photographer Steve Dunlop, our winners will be living the full Chobe experience. Beautifully appointed river-facing rooms or classic thatched rondavels, all en-suite, will be provided on a single occupancy basis. Our Cover Stars will also experience sundowners at the Sedudu Bar, sunset river cruises where hippos surface feet from the boat, and a day trip to Victoria Falls, not to mention game drives at dawn and dinners under vast African skies. All in all,
it’s a five-star location, showcasing Newmarket Holidays’ Premier Collection tour: the Ultimate Safari – Botswana, Victoria Falls & Zimbabwe.
ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME TRIP Lucy Huxley, editor-in-chief of Travel Weekly, said: “Cover Stars has an incredible history of showcasing the travel agents at the heart of everything we do at Travel Weekly. “When Newmarket Holidays approached
us and talked us through its plans to showcase its Premier Collection on our first Cover Stars trip to Africa, we leapt at the chance, and I can’t wait to find the 12 winners who will experience this once-in-a-lifetime trip and feature across our magazine, website and social media channels in 2027.” David Sharman, chief commercial officer
at Newmarket Holidays, said: “We are delighted to be Cover Stars’ headline partner for 2027 and to have this unique opportunity to showcase one of our 18 Africa safaris. “Our travel agent partners are such strong
supporters of our wider safari portfolio, so we chose Chobe National Park as the perfect location to kick off our partnership.” He added: “With the backdrop of Victoria
Falls, sunrise and sunset game drives and cruises and the beautiful Chobe Safari Lodge surrounded by wildlife, the 2027 Cover Star features promise to be the most stunning to date.”
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HOW TO ENTER
All you have to do to enter the competition is head to
travelweekly.co.uk/coverstars2027 and tell us why you would like to be one of our 12 Cover Stars for 2027. Entries will close on Wednesday, August 5, after which a panel of judges will select our winners. The competition is open to frontline travel sellers aged 18 or over in the UK,
whether they work on the high street, online, in call centres or from home. For more details of the trip and full terms and conditions, go to:
travelweekly.co.uk/ coverstars2027
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