Brand USA promotes training with prizes


Brand USA is offering agents the chance to earn goody bags, cookbooks and shopping vouchers by completing its online training by June 11. Ten badges are available on completion of modules through its Big Badge Bonanza incentive. Complete three to receive a Brand USA Goody Bag, five for an American cookbook and seven to be entered into a draw to win one of 10 vouchers worth £100. USADiscoveryProgram.co.uk


CRUISE


NCL, AmaWaterways and Celestyal unveil raft of future sailings


Cruise lines have put more sailings on sale for 2021 and onwards. Norwegian Cruise Line has


sailings to all seven continents available through to 2023, and 20 destinations are new for the line. Its Extraordinary Journeys


range includes a new South America sailing on Norwegian Star, which will be NCL’s first ship to call at Fortaleza and Salvador, in Brazil, during a 15-day itinerary departing from Rio de Janeiro. AmaWaterways has put 2022


European river cruises on sale six months early due to “pent-up demand”. It offers a 5% discount for 2021 Europe, Asia and Egypt bookings made by June 30 and 2022 bookings by September 30. Celestyal Cruises has


revealed details of its 2021 and 2022 deployment in the Greek islands and the Mediterranean. New ports of call include Syros, Crete and Thessaloniki, while three-night and four-night Iconic Discovery sailings on Celestyal Olympia are also new itineraries.


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Sunny Beach, Bulgaria


OPERA OR PERATOR


Balkan Holidays targets early bookings for 2021 programme


Ben Ireland


Balkan Holidays has released its main-edition summer 2021 brochure, with early-booking discounts, £49 deposits and a loyalty discount. New properties among the 171 featured in Bulgaria


include Hotel Belleville, Hotel Cook’s Club, Hotel Mena Palace and Hotel Lion, all in Sunny Beach; Hotel Smartline Arena Mar and Hotel Madara Park in Golden Sands; and Hotel Paradiso in Nessebar. Lakes and mountains holidays in the Bansko and


Borovets regions of Bulgaria have also been added and there are new cruises in Croatia for sale. Balkan Holidays offers flights to Bulgaria from


18 UK airports, to Croatia from 12 airports, and to Slovenia and Montenegro from three UK bases. Prices lead in from £199 for a seven-night stay at Hotel Arda in Sunny Beach, with flights from Doncaster


Sandals and Beaches extend


booking incentive until end of June Sandals and Beaches Resorts’ Booking Bonus has been extended until June 30, offering clients £600 off selected bookings and discounts of up to 45% on holidays in late 2020, 2021 and early 2022. Flights from Manchester, Scotland and Gatwick are available. Seven nights at Sandals Ochi Beach Resort, Jamaica, in late 2020, with BA flights from Gatwick, starts at £1,455. sellingsandals.co.uk


Sheffield on May 20, 2021. Holidays including flights on a Balkan charter can be booked with a deposit of £49, which the operator hopes will encourage early bookings. Early-booking discounts include savings of up to


£657 per couple for a 14-night stay at the Melia Hotel Grand Hermitage, in Golden Sands, Bulgaria, and up to £840 per couple for other destinations such as the Iberostar Heritage Grand Perast, Montenegro, when booked by October 14, 2020. A 5% loyalty discount is also available for repeat


clients and the operator says thousands of free nights are available through its Special Offer Bargains promotions, as well as free or reduced child prices in “most properties”. Balkan Holidays packages include a 22kg luggage


allowance, and it does not charge single supplements. The brochure will not be sent to high street travel


agents until they reopen, but can be downloaded at: balkanholidays.co.uk/brochure


Settle in to watch Netflix or win


other prizes from Celebrity Cruises Netflix gift cards are among the new booking incentives for agents in lockdown using Celebrity Cruises’ loyalty programme. E-vouchers will be given out every week via Celebrity Rewards’ new Treat Yourself Tuesday, with other stay-at-home prizes to be revealed on the line’s Celebrity Cruises’ Travel Agent Facebook page. celebritycentral.co.uk


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