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Welsh start-up Cowbridge opens second agency


Independent agency Cowbridge Travel has opened a second retail store in south Wales, a year after the company was founded. New store Porthcawl Travel


opened on June 23 on a former Tui site in the high street and will be open six days a week. It has four members of staff. The agency’s founding shop,


in Cowbridge, was formerly a Tailor-Made Travel agency taken over by Hays Travel after the miniple went into administration in September 2020. The store was closed in March 2021. Two months later, it reopened


under a new name after the building’s owner, Pamela Thornton – a businesswoman with no previous travel experience – approached the agency’s staff with a proposal to start her own travel firm on the same site. Cowbridge Travel is part of Hays Travel Independence Group.


Tanzer dismisses calls for a new travel lobby group


Ian Taylor and Juliet Dennis


Abta chief Mark Tanzer dismissed the need for a new outbound travel group to represent the sector to government ahead of a meeting to discuss proposals for such a body last week. He told Travel Weekly: “The


Future Travel Coalition we created through Covid is a single outbound voice. It brings together 16 different bodies, all with a slightly different angle on outbound tourism and international travel. They’re different associations for a reason, but we’ve shown we’re able to work together on what we have in common.” The Advantage Travel Partnership


reported a strong turnout at last week’s meeting with “representation across the industry”, but gave no further details. It said it would work to establish the next steps and “consider how the sector builds its political engagement”. Advantage chief executive Julia


Staff outside new shop Porthcawl Travel


Lo Bue-Said, who has championed an outbound lobby group, said: “It was great to speak to a wide range of industry leaders and get their views on how the industry is represented. “The feedback suggests more


can and should be done to raise the


InteleTravel agents can package under Atol after ‘strategic’ delay


InteleTravel has given its UK homeworkers the go-ahead to start selling their own Atol packages – seven months after being granted a licence. UK director Tricia Handley-Hughes said the group made a “strategic decision” to delay members creating their own packages and only expects a “small percentage” of its 11,500-plus agents to do so. The Atol is for 5,310 passengers a year.


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Mark Tanzer


The problem is that


the government needs someone responsible for international travel


industry’s profile, but the vehicle needs greater thought.” Future Travel Coalition members


– including Abta, Advantage, The Travel Network Group, Aito, the Scottish Passenger Agents’ Association, the Business Travel Association, Clia and UKinbound – vowed to maintain their joint lobbying efforts last month. Tanzer said: “The coalition was


very effective through Covid. We organised the day of action. We


Henbury Travel teams up with P&O Cruises for ad campaign


Henbury Travel is to run a billboard campaign with P&O Cruises in December, ahead of the peaks period. The four-week promotion will focus on forthcoming ship Arvia and will be located beside a busy Macclesfield road. The agency plans similar tie-ups with Titan Travel and Malta Tourism Authority.


harmonised what we said so the industry couldn’t be accused of saying different things. Members want it to continue.” He argued: “The problem is


not that the industry needs another voice, it’s that the government needs someone responsible for international travel. We’ve been saying that for a long time. It doesn’t mean a dedicated minister. It means someone who has international travel within their ministerial responsibilities because it is so important to the UK as well as to our industry.” Tanzer added: “MPs say our voice


is very well heard in government. The problem isn’t that we’re not heard, it’s that sometimes the government doesn’t want to do what we want.”


Jeavons to leave TTC to take up role at Abercrombie & Kent


Donna Jeavons will leave The Travel Corporation in August to join Abercombie & Kent in September. Currently TTC Tour Brands managing director for the UK and Europe, Jeavons has been with the company for eight years. Gavin Tollman, president and chief executive of TTC Tour Brands, said sales director Becky Francis would “continue to engage” with the trade while a replacement is sought.


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