NEWS IN BRIEF
Funway cuts Caribbean prices by up to 20%
Funway Holidays is offering 20% off selected Caribbean bookings and deposits of £99. Seven nights’ all-inclusive at the five-star Dreams La Romana Resort & Spa in the Dominican Republic starts at £1,480 with return flights from Gatwick with Tui Airways, based on a family of four sharing a room.
funway4agents.co.uk
Acacia Africa offers 15% off some departures in April
Acacia Africa is offering 15% discounts on selected camping tours and departures in April. The 11-day Cape Desert Safari starts at £710, a saving of 15%, if booked by March 31. It includes transport, most meals, camping accommodation and a tour leader but excludes flights. The operator has also reported a rise in bookings from single-women travellers, up 5% on last year.
acacia-africa.com
Scenic and Emerald Waterways join Tipto
Sister brands Scenic and Emerald Waterways have become the 25th member of the Truly Independent Professional Travel Organisation (Tipto), which helps suppliers reach independent agents. The river cruise operator specialises in escorted touring and will this year launch Scenic Eclipse, its first six-star ocean cruising ship.
tipto.co.uk
G Adventures takes on 18 ‘Wanderer’ bloggers
G Adventures has recruited 18 bloggers to tell ‘digital stories’ about its trips in a relaunch of its ‘Wanderers’ programme’ after a 15-month gap during a marketing restructure. The bloggers will promote small-group, adventure and social responsible travel.
gadventures.com/wanderers
Switch to e-docs and we’ll plant a tree, vow tour firms
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
Trafalgar and Insight Vacations are urging travel agents to use new electronic documents for clients’ bookings instead of paper.
To encourage this, the two
Travel Corporation brands, as well as the company’s not‑for‑profit TreadRight Foundation, have pledged to plant a tree for every booking that uses e-documents. The announcement was made to coincide with International Forest Day last week. For every booking using the
Wendy Wu Tours puts China’s new e-visas online
Wendy Wu Tours has introduced a service to help the trade as China switches to e-visa forms. From April 3, the Chinese Embassy will stop accepting handwritten visa applications. Almost all China visa forms are currently handwritten. The China specialist operator
is hoping to raise trade awareness of the change in visa regulations and has worked with the embassy to put the new online visa forms on its website. These forms are partly pre-
completed by Wendy Wu Tours, leaving only the personal details and travel details to be filled in by agents on behalf of clients. Brian Hynes, operations manager, said: “We know this new legislation will be problematic for agents and
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GREAT WALL: The Chinese Embassy will stop accepting handwritten visa forms fromTuesday
customers, so we’ve made the application process very easy by taking care of all the complexity in advance and creating a very simple online
form which only requires customers to complete their personal travel information and contact details.”
wendywutours.co.uk
e-documents, the operators will plant one tree in Tanzania or northern California. The operators will work with One Tree Planted, a not‑for‑profit organisation focused on global reforestation, to ensure native tree species are planted in the most sustainable manner. As part of the project, Trafalgar
aims to reforest 100 acres of barren and devastated land across Tanzania and northern California in 2018. The destinations were chosen because of Trafalgar’s close connections to California, with its US team based in the state, which recently endured fierce fires destroying over a million
100
Acres Trafalgar plans to reforest in Tanzania and California
acres of forest. Tanzania was chosen because of Trafalgar chief executive Gavin Tollman’s passion for reforestation in his African homeland. Insight Vacations is committed
to planting trees in northern California for every booking using e-documents.
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