Routes to Mumbai and Tunisia revived Virgin Atlantic is to revive a Heathrow-Mumbai link with a daily service in October after a gap of four years, following the demise of Jet Airways’ services to India. Meanwhile, flights to Enfidha, Tunisia, from Leeds Bradford resumed last week, operated by Nouvelair on behalf of Thomas Cook.
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CRUISE
Embrace our brand and we’ll treat you, says Virgin Voyages
Virgin Voyages will invite the agents who “embrace” the start-up line to tours of new ship Scarlet Lady when it calls at Dover and Liverpool next February. President and chief executive
Tom McAlpin said agents would take tours of the 2,700-berth ship, adding: “We are going to invite people who are engaged and embracing our brand.” Music producer and DJ Mark
Ronson is to create onboard playlists and play four times at Te Beach Club, Virgin Voyages’ private beach in the Bahamas, from July 9, 2020. A five-night Mark Ronson On Deck sailing, from Miami, leads in at £1,910.
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OPERATOR
Explore builds own yurt camp to ease cost of Iceland holidays
Benjamin Coren
Explore is building a yurt camp in Iceland to offer competitively priced trips in the country and has launched a “market-leading” incentive programme. Te adventure specialist bought land in Iceland
and is constructing its own yurt camp on the site, close to Gullfoss waterfalls and Strokkur Geyser, for its tour groups to stay at. Managing director Joe Ponte said: “It will
be a full-service camp, open year-round on a working horse farm which is home to 150 horses. “It will offer a competitive price point for the
Explore’s new incentive rewards agents who book ,
destination. Iceland is very popular but quite expensive, so this enabled us to create something quite unique.” Te yurt camp is expected to be on sale within a
month and will feature three and four-day trips. Lead-in prices will be announced soon.
Affordable Car Hire guarantees vehicle upgrades at Florida airports
Mark Ronson
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Affordable Car Hire has signed an upgrade agreement with Hertz’s Dollar Diamond and Thrifty Sapphire brands. Affordable customers collecting vehicles at Orlando, Miami and Fort Lauderdale airports will qualify for an automatic, guaranteed upgrade until the end of June and from August 16 until December 14.
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five or more passengers between June and December, and offers a choice of destinations to visit. Te operator says this differs from traditional fam trips on confirmed dates for a limited number of agents. Ponte said: “We love rewarding travel agents and are really excited to launch this new, market-leading, agent incentive. “It is incredibly simple. Once an agent
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books just five passengers on any Explore trips, they get to choose the trip they would like to do up to a duration of nine days. In addition, if the agent wants to take a companion,
that person will also get 30% off. We are 100% ramping up trade business with our new incentive and products.” Explore appointed Ben Itensohn as its new global
head of sales in January to bolster trade support.
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Explore’s new yurt camp
Did you know?
You can now book your client’s Island Routes Caribbean Adventure online at
sandals.co.uk/agents. From hiking the Pitons in Saint Lucia to swimming with pigs in the Bahamas, the choice is theirs.
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