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Hope for glad tidings on the horizon A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR


The industry’s road to recovery continues to be beset by diversions and hold-ups, as has so often been the case this year. There is an undoubted sense of positivity about pent-up demand and vaccine progress, and some rare good news for Scottish agents in the shape of much-needed financial support (page 6). But momentum continues to be hampered by worries over issues including Brexit, rising business costs and ongoing uncertainty over when key destinations will open (and stay open) in a meaningful way (pages 4-6). The turning of the clock at midnight on December 31 will not make those worries disappear. But after a year of professional and personal loss, the trade will be keen to see 2020 fade in the rear-view mirror in the hope that 2021 will be easier to navigate.


The outlook for the industry is analysed in detail in our ninth Travel Weekly Insight Annual


Report (pages 4, 10-11, 38-40) and the 56-page report and all our online and print content continues to be made available for free to support your business recovery and planning. This is our final print edition of the year, but we will continue to deliver all our leading news


coverage and analysis on travelweekly.co.uk until we return – every week – from January 7. As we look to 2021, our commitment to informing, inspiring and connecting our industry has never been stronger. The entire team joins me in wishing all our readers and partners a safe and peaceful Christmas.


WHAT LUCY DID THIS WEEK


OCo-hosted a live webinar with Virgin Atlantic’s global sales boss Lee Haslett and gave away places on two fam trips with the airline – one to Jamaica and one to Antigua!


OJoined Clia UK & Ireland director Andy Harmer for a chat and some of my favourite tunes for his ‘Cruise Hour’ on Travel.Radio.


Lucy Huxley, editor-in-chief, Travel Weekly Group CONTENTS NEWS


dedicated web pages to support you


go.travelweekly.co.uk/ webcasts


Webcasts Resource Centre


go.travelweekly.co.uk/ resources


Restart & Recovery Hub travelweekly.co.uk/ restart-recovery


T ravel Weekly’s


January tipped to be a ‘difficult’ month 4 Canaries decision ‘hits winter demand’ 4 ‘Shambolic’ start to test to release


Bonding costs ‘to rise’; Scottish support 6


Cruise ‘demand’; Travel House; Royal 8 Special reports


Travel Weekly Insight Report 2020-21 10 Comment: Derek Moore reviews year 12 Christmas Good Deeds: Trade pressies 14 Christmas Cheers: ‘I’d like to thank...’ 16


NEWS YOU CAN USE Product


Intrepid, Inghams, Sandals, Saga


FRONTLINE agent diary


Kim Kent: Here’s to a fresh start in 2021 22 Your Stories


THE QUEEN’S AWARDS FOR ENTERPRISE:


INTERNATIONAL TRADE 2020


FOLLOW US: travelweekly.co.uk


Becs Sanders on her career from TV to travel and food 23


@travelweekly 19 MSC, NCL, Celebrity, Princess, A&K 20 5


ODecorated our Christmas tree and actually wrote my Christmas cards!


competitions


Win flights for two with Virgin Atlantic 25 Get Social Captain Tom, Canaries, grants, Brexit 27


DESTINATIONS trends


Asia


Travel in 2021: Self-drives, rail, villas and sustainability are among the types of holiday tipped by experts to be in demand next year 28


Singapore: Get a taste of what it will be like to visit once restrictions ease with Katie McGonagle’s report from the city-state


BUSINESS NEWS


Travel Weekly Insight panel debates: Fears grow for post-Xmas restrictions 38 Carriers face fall in long-haul demand 39 Regional airports; confidence ‘critical’ 39 Brexit deal ‘must not be acrimonious’ 40


travelweeklyuk @travelweeklyuk 17 DECEMBER 2020 3


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