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NEWS Hot Stories
Caribbean bookings campaign to raise hurricane relief funds; Saga brings forward date for second ship; Cunard and Azamara to expand fleets; Travel Counsellors trials expert digital training scheme; Cook reports UK bookings up 8%
WIN! Round-up A&K joins Atas; Norwegian gains permit
A fantastic trip to California as one of our 2018 Cover Stars page 44
Special Reports Travelsphere targets trade in new strategy 10 Plan a Cruise Month: Clia touts destinations 12
Talk Back Dnata, Ryanair, APD, Uber, Tui, Global
NEWS YOU CAN USE Product Trafalgar, BA, Explore, Atlantis
Operator Railbookers, G Adventures Cruise Travel 2, Norwegian, Saga, Hal
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FRONTLINE Comment Giles Hawke: ‘Channel efforts’ 36
Day in the Life AmaWaterways’ Eduard 40 Competitions Win £10k, watch, fam trips 44
Mystery Shopper Swansea shops tested 46 DESTINATIONS
Weddings & Honeymoons Easy weddings abroad: Large and small 48 Twin centres: Honeymoon hotspots
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NORTHERN BALL Photo special of Travel Weekly’s Let’s Dance- themed event
page 30 PHOTO: STEVE DUNLOP
Germany Black Forest: A fine place for foodies Europa-Park: Theme park thrills
BUSINESS
Business Breakfast: Retaining talent key for Northern Powerhouse travel firms
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WHAT
LUCY DID THISWEEK
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Lucy Huxley Editor-in-chief @Lucy_Huxley
Worked on the programme for the business session element of our inaugural Association of Touring & Adventure Suppliers Conference.
Had a great catch up with Lynn Narraway and Carly Perkins of Holland America Line and Seabourn
Helped my daughter make a miniature garden for her school home-learning challenge
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about the possibility of adding new ships to his fleet. He vehemently rejected the idea, saying the luxury sector
A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR Cabin pressure set to rise A
was becoming saturated with “too much capacity, coming too fast”, and warned prices would come under pressure. Azamara, he said, would steer well clear of adding
tonnage and entering the bun-fight. So what has changed in just over a year for him to do a complete about-turn and buy a third ship? (page 5). It’s not as if anything has slowed down on the capacity
front. Just this week, Cunard ordered a fourth luxury liner (page 5), adding to a host of orders by the likes of Seabourn, Crystal, Silversea and Celebrity, to name but a few at the upper end of the market. So, with more ships than ever coming, is demand going
through the roof or are operators taking a punt on a period of supply-led growth none can afford to miss out on? Azamara’s UK boss told us this week that its decision
was underpinned by outstanding business metrics – and even hinted its third ship was merely the start of Azamara’s growth plans. Whatever the driving force, it’s timely that Clia is gearing
up for its ‘Plan a Cruise Month’ in October (page 12), because operators will be relying on agents to sell all these new cabins. Its focus is ensuring the trade knows as much about destinations as the lines themselves in order to clinch sales, ideally without any pressure to discount prices.
bout 16 months ago, I interviewed the boss of Azamara Club Cruises at the Clia Conference and asked him
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