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DSD kicks off new Zambia football and schools tours


Lucy Huxley lucy.huxley@travelweekly.co.uk


Attraction Tickets Direct and its trade-only brand Do Something Different have two new tours in Zambia featuring a local football match or school visit.


The tours are being run in conjunction with the company’s charity, the ATD Foundation. Chief executive Oliver Brendon


said: “The foundation has already paid for seven boreholes, 48 latrines and five classrooms, and sponsors a football academy for boys, girls, men and women. “The charity is all about water sanitation, education and football, which is a force for good in the deprived town of Dambwa. “We bought a bus for the football


academy to take the teams to away games, but we also use it to take kids to school and to help women with their shopping in the week. Now we will use it to take tours to the football and to the school.” Brendon said he is in talks with


OPERATOR


Kirker Holidays reintroduces Egypt and Tunisia and adds new hotels


Kirker Holidays has reintroduced Egypt and Tunisia and expanded in Oman and Turkey for its 2019 Short Breaks & Tailor-Made Holidays brochure. In Egypt, the operator is offering Nile cruises and holidays to Cairo, Giza, Luxor and Aswan. A four-night


“We bought a bus for the football academy. Now we will use it to take tours to the football and school”


Audley Travel and VIVID Travel about featuring the tour and said it would suit tailor-made operators’ programmes and agents putting together bespoke trips to Zambia. “The bus is an opportunity


for the football academy and schools we support to put tours


on, including training up tour guides,” he said. “It’s a way for the communities


to learn new skills and, because it’s a social enterprise, all the money goes back into the villages. “We think customers will love


it. They will get to see where the football players live and train and see students at the schools we have supported. It will get clients off the main tourist trail of Victoria Falls, which tends to be all people see.” The half-day tours cost from £50


and went live last week. dosomethingdifferent.com


cruise and tour costs from £2,998. In Tunisia, Kirker’s featured hotel is The Residence, close to the village of La Marsa. Its Turkish programme now includes the resort of Izmir, the villages of Sirince and Alacati, and Istanbul’s Sultanhan hotel. In Oman, it has added the Crowne Plaza in Muscat, and the Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar. A six-night escorted tour Oman – Pearl of Arabia, departing October 10, costs from £2,929. Prices are based on


twin-share and include flights. kirkerholidays.com


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Did you know…? Sandals Royal Barbados has just opened ‘Sweet n’ Salty’s Gourmet Donuts & Coffee’ – Sandals’ first artisanal doughnut shop.


SUPPORT: Livingstone Youth Football Academy


NEWS IN BRIEF


Virgin to fly daily to Tel Aviv from London in September


Virgin Atlantic is to begin daily flights between Heathrow and Tel Aviv, Israel, on September 25. The five-hour service is timed to tie in with connecting long-haul flights. vaflightstore.com


Sign up to join one of Visit California’s trade quizzes


Agents can still sign up to attend Visit California’s trade quiz nights in Chester (February 26), Liverpool (February 27), Newcastle (March 28) and Leeds (April 4). Drinks and dinner are included and it is free to attend. Rounds will be hosted by Californian destinations. star.visitcalifornia.com


Super Break offers new London theatre package


Super Break has packages to new musical Come from Away, in London. It tells the story of when 38 aircraft landed in Newfoundland after the 2001 terror attacks in New York. Prices start at £108 for one night’s B&B and show ticket. superbreak.com/agents


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