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Why can’t Cook offer us £49 deposits too?
Story: STA Travel to sell Thomas Cook flights and holidays £49 deposit on Thomas Cook flights? Why not offer that to your other retail partners and create that level playing field you banged on about for years?
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INDIE AGENT Travel Weekly welcomes a reply from Thomas Cook
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Londons No 1 Travel Agent @traveldesigners Lovely to catch up with amazing @lucy_ ellingham @GlobalHQ1 conference @ TGTGConference #orlando @KuoniTradeTeam
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Operator’s plans could change the landscape
Story: ‘Radically changed’ easyJet holidays to be revealed in late 2019 “Annual passenger carryings for easyJet up to 88.5 million” – wow. So, if only 10% were to book and travel with easyJet Holidays (you do the math). Ryanair reacts with its own tour operation (muted, but nothing of substance yet). The trade really does need to be mindful of these developments because, this time next year, our landscape could look very, very different when it comes to the package holiday sector.
TREVOR DAVIS ‘Reluctant’ UK staff put hotel profits at risk
Story: Rising costs and Brexit warning over UK hotel profitability It is not just rising operating costs which pose a threat to UK hotels. Their ability to sustain premium prices (and, of course, a premium tax contribution from VAT, which is double the European average), is dependent upon the availability of high-quality labour providing a premium service. As highly motivated and highly educated migrants are replaced by reluctant locals (assuming they can be replaced, which is very problematic), maintaining quality and premium pricing is going to be a real challenge.
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Rory Jones @RAA_Jones (Travel Network Group) Martin Kemp takes to the stage at the #Jet2Conf #antalya
Derek Jones @Degsy_DJ (Der Touristik) Heapy giving a speech praising the role of agents, as Thomas Cook issues a profit warning. The changing of the guard?
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EasyJet Holidays is a threat to OTAs
Story: ‘Radically changed’ easyJet holidays to be revealed in late 2019 EasyJet is definitely a threat to the tour operating landscape. However, while its 88.5 million passenger figure is impressive, that I believe is for one-way flights, and about 50% of its business excludes the UK. I don’t think the major tour operators have as much to worry about as those that currently piggyback off the low-cost carriers to dynamically package, including online travel agents such as Love Holidays, On the Beach, Travel Republic and some of the smaller tour operators. Travel has always been an industry of change; however, these low-cost carriers have a dominant position at key airports so it will be hard for any new players to enter the market. ALEX STUART
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