NEWS IN BRIEF
Tahiti specialist agents to be featured on tourist board site
Tahiti Tourism is to start featuring the names of Tahiti specialist agents on its UK website. Contact details of agents who have passed training modules, been on fam trips or attended training sessions will be added from next year.
tiareagents.tahiti-tourisme.com
Barbados plans fam trips to push sports, villas and Mice
Barbados Tourism Marketing has unveiled plans for a new agent loyalty programme in January 2018 and smaller agent fam trips next year. The educationals will concentrate on small-group trips to promote sports tourism, villas and the Mice sector next year.
visitbarbados.org
Cape Verde to drop visa requirement for EU citizens
Cape Verde is to eliminate visas for EU citizens. The new rules will come into force in May or June next year. Currently all Brits require a visa, costing €40, which can be obtained in advance or upon arrival at the airport.
capeverde.com
Tap into TAP’s trade website to create Lisbon stopovers
TAP Air Portugal is introducing a website to help agents capitalise on its stopover scheme. The airline’s five-day stopover initiative aims to encourage more passengers to spend time in Lisbon. The new trade site will help agents create itineraries.
flytap.com
Spinning Globe offer
Ben Ireland
ben.ireland@
travelweekly.co.uk
An online platform for agents to access “hot leads” from customers who build their own trip but need help booking it has been launched.
Spinning Globe is a site on which
holidaymakers can create wish lists by choosing activities and destinations that appeal to them in a My Trip planning tool. After creating their list, they can
choose an Abta or Atol-licensed travel agent – a specialist for the type of holiday they have created – to contact for advice and to book. Spinning Globe, which is looking
for more UK agents to register to use its site, takes a fee from the agent for delivering a customer. So far, agents from Travelbag, DialAFlight, Turquoise Holidays, Wexas and Fleewinter have registered but Spinning Globe hopes independent high street agents will follow suit to add a potential revenue stream. It features destination content, sponsored by tourist boards, on Thailand, Zagreb, the Bahamas, Nevada, Mauritius, Kenya, Chile and Qatar, and aims to add more. “We want to give agents another
way of attracting customers, and when customers have built their own trip it’s a really hot lead,” said Spinning Globe’s head of marketing
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travelweekly.co.uk 16 November 2017
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