NEWS ROUND-UP NEWS IN BRIEF
Hays Travel opens store in Brighouse, West Yorkshire
Hays Travel this week opened a branch in Brighouse, West Yorkshire, taking its number of shops to 161. It plans to open a further three shops across the UK by the end of March.
Osprey and sister ski brand increase commission rate
Osprey Holidays and sister firm Ski Independence have raised their commission for agents. The 0.5 percentage point hike follows new legislation banning credit card charges for bookings.
Insight and Luxury Gold recruit sales duo for north
Insight Vacations and sister brand Luxury Gold have increased their on-the-road sales team following the departure of sales manager for the north Caroline O’Brien. The northern region has been split into two. Clare Collins-Doyle has been appointed sales manager for the northwest and Sarah Budgie as sales manager for the Midlands and northeast.
US tipped to have missed out on 7% global tourism surge
Global tourism figures grew by a “remarkable” 7% in 2017, according to the UN World Tourism Organisation. Arrivals to the US, however, are tipped to have fallen, although its final figure for 2017 is not yet available.
Ten more brands back the Safer Tourism Foundation
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Ten more travel brands have signed up to industry-wide charity the Safer Tourism Foundation since its launch in September.
The foundation now hopes to set up a means of measuring how companies are honouring pledges – which could be recognised by awards – and is looking for more companies, including travel agencies, to sign up. The Safer Tourism Foundation
was set up to reduce the number of avoidable deaths, injuries and illnesses among British tourists. Patron Sharon Wood, mother of children Christi and Bobby Shepherd who died of carbon monoxide poisoning on a Thomas Cook holiday in Corfu in 2006, has campaigned for justice for more than 10 years. Thomas Cook, which gave
£1 million in funding, Tui, Hotelplan and Saga pledged to improve the health and safety of customers at the charity’s launch. Now, British Airways Holidays, Neilson, Audley Travel and Travelopia brands Hayes & Jarvis, Citalia, Austravel, Sovereign,
Travel Weekly’s Parish promoted to Jacobs Media Group MD role
Travel Weekly Group managing director Stuart Parish is to take on an expanded role overseeing parent company Jacobs Media Group’s UK travel and hospitality portfolio. Parish’s promotion to Jacobs Media Group UK managing
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Exodus, TrekAmerica and Headwater have joined the charity’s list of pledgers. The charity’s chief executive, Katherine Atkinson, said: “Everyone I’ve talked to has been very positive. When it comes to health and safety, travel companies all want to see customers safe and well; competitive interests are put aside.” Atkinson, appointed a year ago
to spearhead the launch, said the Safer Tourism Foundation was not trying to supplant associations like Abta and Aito, which have their own health and safety forums. “We are working with them,” she
director will see him take responsibility for The Caterer, the leading media brand for the UK’s growing hospitality sector, in addition to his existing remit for the market-leading Travel Weekly business. The company has also unveiled
plans to further expand its international presence through Connections events and the Travel Weekly and Travolution overseas portfolios. The
SAFETY FIRST: Peter Fankhauser and Sharon Wood at the launch of the Safer Tourism Foundation
said. “But I don’t think anyone has gone out to the whole industry in terms of health and safety before. We want the widest possible reach. “We now want to develop the pledge further with something that would be measured to give companies and customers assurances. The obvious question is ‘what difference does the pledge make?’, and this would be a way of showing companies are fulfilling statements of intent.” Atkinson was a panellist at a
Hill Dickinson travel law seminar in November and hopes to speak at more industry events this year.
international expansion will be led by group chief executive Duncan Horton through organic growth and acquisition. Jacobs Media Group chairman
Clive Jacobs said: “By bringing our travel and hospitality brands together under one management team, we will be able to amplify our message, exploit synergies and better support our readers and commercial partners.”
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