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ravel Weekly launches Travel’s Good Deed Feed to showcase acts of goodwill in the trade during the coronavirus crisis. Natalie Marsh reports
It’s sweets and treats as crisis triggers kind acts
Surprise deliveries, food banks and messages of support have been among a number of acts of kindness reported across the travel trade in the past week. As the impact of the coronavirus
left travel firms facing uncertainty, colleagues, customers, partners and rivals have come together with measures of goodwill and messages of support. The positive actions led Travel
Weekly to compile a dedicated Good Deed Feed online showcasing the gestures of support that individuals and teams have shown to one another. The feed can be found at
go.travelweekly.co.uk/gooddeedfeed. Highlights include:
Q Central England Co-operative is to launch a food bank for those most-affected by the coronavirus crisis. Food parcels will be created from food donated at the Co-op’s food stores, in which about half of the
society’s 24 travel agencies are based. Q Paul Marsden, a Travel Counsellors homeworker based in Sale, Greater Manchester, delivered some cakes
local shop and got them some cakes, just because I thought we all need a
bit of a pick-me-up.” Q A client of Aspen Travel’s Karen Allen requested that she keep the commission she would otherwise have lost after Allen refunded the
Travel Counsellors’ Paul
Marsden gifts some treats to Karen Allen and the team at Aspen Travel
client for their cancelled booking. Q Niall Douglas, managing director of Full Circle Travel in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, has been offering travel advice to local residents through Facebook. He managed to help one non-customer whose son was stuck in Brazil and even checked in on him
when he returned home. Q The Good Deed Feed also showcases how firms are spreading positivity. Saga has launched its #notgoingoutclub campaign, promising “masses of inspired ideas and advice to keep you enjoying life at home”.
to nearby high street agency Aspen Travel. “I thought they’d be feeling the same as I was feeling and it would be nice to do something as a bit of a surprise,” he said. “I went into the
Find our Travel’s Good Deed Feed online at:
go.travelweekly.co.uk/ gooddeedfeed
Children stuck at home? Keep ‘em busy learning with our Kids’ Activity Pack
A collection of resources for parents whose children are at home – following the closure of schools across the country – is now available on Travel Weekly’s website. Travel Weekly, in association
with educational publisher Twinkl, has put together travel-related activity packs, suitable for three phases of education: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3.
10 26 MARCH 2020 The packs feature wordsearches,
quiz questions, drawing activities and more. The website also features other home learning and educational resources.
Find T ravel Weekly’s Kids’
Activity Pack and more at:
go.travelweekly.co.uk/kidspacks
O Clients and travel industry colleagues sent chocolates and sweets to the team at Carrick Travel.
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O The Cosmos and Avalon Waterways trade sales team showed its appreciation to sales director Janet Parton.
O The Kuoni team was still smiling after working round the clock to rebook clients, according to head of commu- nications Rachel O’Reilly.
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