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Iceland touring specialist offers 20% commission
Juliet Dennis
juliet.dennis@
travelweekly.co.uk
Hidden Iceland is actively targeting the UK trade for the first time and is offering commission of about 20%.
The Iceland-based company,
which started trading last year, already sells direct to UK holidaymakers. It is now looking to form partnerships with travel agents to increase sales from the UK, which currently make up more than 20% of bookings. Its itineraries explore the country’s “hidden gems” and offer an immersive experience through small-group escorted tours of up to 12 people and bespoke, private trips.
One of the
operator’s most
popular offerings is a two-day
Co-founder Ryan Connolly
twin-room accommodation, excluding flights. The company will introduce a
four-day Westfjords itinerary this summer to take holidaymakers to the most remote areas of Iceland. Hidden Iceland can put together
glacier lagoon tour, with overnight stays in a guesthouse on a farm and the chance to see icebergs float around the Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon and hike up one of the outlet glaciers of the Vatnajökull ice cap. The trip costs from £375, based on
customised itineraries ranging from three to 10 days for couples, families and solo travellers. Founded by Ryan Connolly, Scott Drummond and Dagný Björg Stefánsdóttir, the operator’s first trip departed in November last year.
Connolly said: “The UK is a huge
market for us and we’re keen to hear from agents who’d like to work together to offer truly personalised tour products and
adventures to their clients.”
hiddeniceland.is
Planet Holidays expands Greece and Cyprus programme
Planet Holidays has added seven lesser-known islands to its 2019 Greece and Cyprus programme. The brochure also features new
resorts in mainland Greece, and additional island-hopping options. The new Greek islands are Kea,
Tinos, Kythnos, Ithaca, Lefkas, Patmos and Paxos. They bring the total number of Greek islands featured by Planet to 24. New Greek mainland resorts include Preveza in the Epirus region, Pieria in central Macedonia and Messinia in the Peloponnese. New island-hopping itineraries include 16-night Athens, Iraklia& Naxos and 14-night Mykonos& Cyprus trips. In Cyprus, new hotels include the four-star Blue Ivy Hotel and Suites in Protaras, which opened this month, and the five-star Parklane Resort & Spa, in Limassol,
which opens in March next year.
planet-holidays.co.uk
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