NEWS IN BRIEF
Carrier’s head office to focus only on the trade
Carrier’s 70-strong head office team will become solely trade-focused from December 4 when a move to new offices in Didsbury, Manchester, is complete. All consumer calls to the luxury specialist will be dealt with by its independent travel agency Carrier Travel, based in Alderley Edge. The trade currently accounts for 80% of bookings.
carrier.co.uk
Kirker gives away hampers for Orient-Express bookings
Kirker is giving away luxury Christmas hampers to agents plus entry to a prize draw to win one of four places on a Venice Simplon-Orient-Express fam trip next year for every new booking of the luxury train between now and December 31. Three-night Venice packages featuring the train start from £2,548 including flights.
kirkerholidays.com
Trafalgar serves up dining experience in the Vatican
Trafalgar is to offer new VIP after-hours dining experiences inside the Vatican in 2018 on selected Italy itineraries. They include al fresco dining in the Cortile del Giardino Quadrato (square garden) with views of the cupola of St Peter’s. For the past two years, the operator has offered private dining in the Vatican’s Ethnological Museum.
trafalgar.com/agents
Get on track with Great Rail’s £100 low deposits
Great Rail Journeys is offering low deposits of £100 per person for bookings on or before December 8 for some of its best-selling tours in India, the US and Europe in 2018. They include India’s Golden Triangle and USA Coast to Coast.
greatrail.com
Hayes & Jarvis publishes US destination-style guide
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Hayes & Jarvis has brought out its first brochure combining the US, Mexico and the Caribbean.
The 2018-19 programme moves
away from a traditional brochure format with a new destination guide layout featuring more photographs, maps and expert advice, and themed sections: Unique Stays; Family Fun; Sail Away; and Let’s Talk Private Islands. New destinations for next
year are Alaska, New York State, northern California and Puerto Rico. More than 10 hotels, including the Chablé Resort Mexico, and several tours and cruises, have also been added. General manager Suzanne
Harvey said the new-style destination guide, one of the operator’s largest programmes, aimed to “fuel ideas and holiday aspirations” by offering everything from island-hopping in the Caribbean to self-drives in the US. New tours featured in the guide
Newmarket unveils coach trips to China exhibition in Liverpool
Newmarket Holidays has put coach breaks on sale for 2018 to see China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors Exhibition in Liverpool. The operator is offering two and
three-day inclusive coach breaks to Liverpool’s World Museum, which will include admission to the exhibition, free time to explore the city, and bed and breakfast
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New hotels featured in H&J’s new programme
include a seven-day escorted tour to Olympic National Park, Washington State, and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, from £3,879. The tour is run by sister brand Grand American Adventures and includes a kayaking trip on
Lake Crescent, an orca whale spotting boat trip and stays in national park cabins and yurts. Also new is a luxury cruise on
Regent Seven Seas Cruises’ Seven Seas Navigator along the coast of
New England and eastern Canada. The 17-day cruise-and-stay
holiday, from £12,669, includes 14 nights on the five-star ship, one night at the four-star The Redbury New York and one night at the five-star Fairmont The Queen
Elizabeth, and return flights.
hayesandjarvis.co.uk
Province – more than half of which have never been on show in the UK before.
As part of the exhibition, visitors can see the Terracotta Warriors, including a life-size terracotta horse and other objects from the First Emperor’s Qin Shi Huang’s burial complex. Newmarket head of trade sales
LIVERPOOL: China’s First Emperor exhibition opens in February
accommodation. The exhibition features more than 180 artefacts from museums across Shaanxi
Richard Forde said: “The exhibtion promises to be extraordinary – the Terracotta Army is often high up on everyone’s ‘must-see’ list.” A two-day break to see the
exhibition starts from £135.
newmarketholidays.co.uk
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