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Cuba Direct adds Costa Rica twin-centre option
Cuba Direct has launched a tour combining Cuba and Costa Rica. The 10-night holiday starts at £1,289, excluding international flights. The operator is offering savings of £300 for bookings made this month.
cubadirect.co.uk
Saga introduces Club Palmeraie Marrakech
Saga has added seven nights’ all-inclusive at the Iberostar Club Palmeraie Marrakech, in Morocco. Prices start at £399 including flights and transfers. Departures run from September 2018 to April 2019, with discounts of up to £300 per couple available until April 27.
saga.co.uk
G Adventures offers tours to Dracula’s castle
G Adventures has added a three-day Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania tour, including a Hallowe’en party, from £299. The operator is offering agents making a Hallowe’en booking by August 31 the chance to attend the party.
gadventures.com
Leger boosts Christmas range with 11 itineraries
Leger Holidays has added 11 tours to its Christmas Markets and Festive Breaks brochure, taking the total to 29. Early-booking discounts of up to £40 are available.
leger.co.uk/christmas-markets
Exodus to operate 12 trips only for women
Exodus Travels has added 12 departures solely for women. A Cycle Indochina & Angkor tour leads in at £2,349, including flights.
exodus.co.uk
Mark Warner heads back to Turkey after three-year gap
Ben Ireland
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Mark Warner is ramping up its focus on Turkey after returning to the country this summer for the first time since 2015.
The operator has produced a
two-page fact sheet for agents to help them sell its Phokaia Beach Resort, in Foça, which is new for summer 2018. Mark Warner has expanded its online agent information hub to give more details of the resort, including downloadable window posters and webinars. The 160-room resort, which was
previously operated by Neilson, offers water sports such as sailing, windsurfing, paddleboarding and kayaking, and offers a free waterski tow for each guest. The land-based activities
available include tennis, guided cycling and volleyball. The operator is offering
packages that combine five nights’
Olympic Holidays launches summer 2019 programme
Olympic Holidays will distribute its summer 2019 preview brochure to shops next week, offering agents the chance to make early bookings on its Gold and Island Hopper itineraries. More destinations and accommodation – including the operator’s dedicated Weddings and Gold Collection brochures – will continue to be added and made available online in the coming months.
PHOKAIA BEACH RESORT: Offers full and half-board accommodation
“We’ve created a fact sheet for agents, to give them all the tools they need”
full-board and two nights’ half- board, encouraging guests to go out for dinner in nearby Foça. The accommodation options include eight villas, family rooms, suites and standard rooms.
Julie Franklin, Mark Warner’s agency sales manager, said: “Phokaia Beach Resort is not in our current brochure, so we’ve created the fact sheet for agents, to give them all the tools they need.” She added that Turkey sales
were going “really well” so far, following the operator’s two-year absence from the country.
Prices start at £699 in May.
booking.markwarner.co.uk/ agents/
agentslogin.aspx
OLYMPIC: Early booking starts Seven nights’ self-catering at
the three-star Buena Vista Studios in Kefalonia starts at £309 per
person, based on two people flying from Gatwick on May 7 2019. Island-hopping itineraries include seven nights taking in Corfu, Sivota and Lefkada, with departures from May 5, 2019. Prices start at £790 per person, based on two people travelling together. The package includes three nights’ all-inclusive at the four-star Aeolos Beach Resort in Corfu, two nights’ bed and breakfast at the three-star Albatros Hotel in Sivota and two nights’ bed and breakfast at the three-star Porto Ligia Hotel in Lefkada, transfers and flights
fromManchester.
olympicholidays.com
19 April 2018
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