NEWS ROUND-UP PICTURED: Baldwins’ bachelor


The Marks family of Baldwins Travel are set to appear in the upcoming Channel 5 reality TV series, The Bachelor. The eligible bachelor featured in the dating show


will be Alex Marks (pictured, far right), the 31-year-old brother of Chris and Nick, joint managing directors of the Kent-based independent agency. A host of single ladies will compete for personal


trainer Alex’s attention over the course of the 10-part series, which was filmed in South Africa, Antigua and the UK. Broadcast dates have yet to be released. Chris, Nick, their father Ron, who is company


chairman, and mother Sally, a director, all make appearances. Nick (second left), Ron and Chris are pictured at last year’s Agent Achievement Awards.


Hurtigruten’s Walter plans booking and training portal


Harry Kemble harry.kemble@travelweekly.co.uk


Hurtigruten’s new head of trade sales has revealed plans to build a “one-stop shop” agent portal and to host meet-and-greet trade events.


In his first interview in his new


role, ar alter said he wanted to wor more closely with eisting accounts, after being promoted from national ey account manager on February 6. alter said agent training


had occasionally been an afterthought at Hurtigruten. In the net si months, he plans


to launch a portal for agents to access training, an image library, mareting tools and the line’s 2 booing platform. The new portal will be designed in-house and will be lined to the eisting 2 booing engine. He said gents will be able


to go to one place and get all the basics. e need to drive agents to the portal and mae sure that they have the nowledge because


WALTER: ‘Agents will be able to go to one place for all the basics’


Hurtigruten is such a niche product.  little bit of nowledge about Hurtigruten goes a long way because there are a lot of clients out there looing for epertise. alter also wants to launch a roadshow programme where


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Capacity of new ship Roald Amundsen


agents will be able to put uestions to Hurtigruten’s UK general manager, nthony aniels. Over the past few years it has


been the on-the-road sales team, but sometimes agents need to hear a bit more of the bigger picture. utting on events is something that we can do relatively easily. Hurtigruten is set to launch its 530-passenger hybrid-powered vessel Roald Amundsen on ay 17, and alter revealed how the line is planning agent ship visits. There will be an opportunity


in the mid-summer to see Roald Amundsen, he said.


Fam trips are an important part


of the company’s development. e really want the trade to eperience and see the ship.


Registration opens for all for Abta’s convention in Japan


Abta has opened up registration for its 2019 Travel Convention in oo with fights hotes n tours vie inuing ug or u tiets n tours. egistrtion hs revious


been open only to those who had pre-booked. he  onvention is on


toer  n ttenne wi e e t  eegtes. onom return res with  Nippon Airways are £599 from Heathrow and £449 via other European hubs. Delegates will st t the rn rine ote New Takanawa. he onvention oinies with


the ug or u in n n ofii ges re vie. nsien ours osmos


and Wendy Wu Tours are offering pre and post- onvention tours ting in estintions suh s ount ui oto r io n s. he n tion ourism


rgnition hs  hoie o two and three-night fam trips on offer for Abta delegates.


The Travel Convention 2019 October 7-9, Tokyo thetravelconvention.com Media partner: Travel Weekly


COMMENT: “My company operates in a B-word free zone. We don’t talk about it to clients or each other” Miles Morgan, page 26


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