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Al Fresco Holidays adds four parks and cuts prices by 40%


Al Fresco Holidays has added four holiday parks to its portfolio, in France, Croatia and Italy. The holiday park operator,


which has 60 parks in Europe including in Spain, Holland and Austria, is offering up to 40% off stays this year. The first parks are due to open


for the 2021 season from late March and some are set to stay open until early November. The four new parks are Le


Soleil de la Méditerranée, in the Roussillon region of France; Camping Club Le Napoleon, in Languedoc, southern France; Montescudaio Camping Village in Tuscany, Italy; and the Brioni Sunny Camping site in Croatia. All four are accepting


bookings for stays from May 22. Al Fresco Holidays is offering


up to 40% off stays this year. Seven nights’ self-catering at Le Soleil de la Méditerranée, arriving on May 22, costs from £191.80 for a two-bedroom Comfort mobile home sleeping up to six adults. alfresco-holidays.com


Le Soleil de la Méditerranée


Cornwall


Exodus and Headwater unveil wealth of UK options for 2021


Juliet Dennis


Exodus Travels has introduced UK group tours for 2021 while sister brand Headwater has significantly expanded its range of domestic self-guided holidays. Exodus, which acquired Headwater in 2018, is


offering guided walking and cycling holidays in the UK to meet increased demand for close-to-home holidays. The operator’s four new group tours cover Cornwall,


South Wales and the Scottish Highlands. Exodus Travels senior product manager Tom


Wilkinson said: “Our goal was to provide the Exodus experience our clients know and love but closer to home.” The operator offers a ‘book and travel with confidence’


promise if holidays cannot go ahead as planned. Trips include a five-day guided cycling trip from


Swansea to St Davids. Ride the South Wales Coast, from £1,499, includes six nights’ bed and breakfast accommodation, luggage transfers, meals and activities. Bike hire is available at an extra cost. The other trips are a seven-night Walk the North Highland Way itinerary, from £1,499; five-night


Walking in Cornwall, from £999; and five-night Walking the Gower Peninsula, from £799. Headwater has added 27 UK walking and cycling


self-guided holidays to its portfolio after reporting a 71% surge in demand for its domestic breaks between May and December last year compared with 2019. New regions added to its UK range include


Cornwall, Bath, Norfolk, Pembrokeshire, North Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as new linear trips from Oxford to Bath, along the Thames Path, the Cotswold Way and Wainwright’s Coast to Coast route. There are no fixed departure dates and all trips


are backed by Headwater’s Book with Confidence guarantee. New trips include a seven-night Pembroke to Amroth


Walk from £829, including accommodation, maps, luggage transfers and services of a local representative, and an eight-night Oxford to Bath Cycle trip from £1,529, including bed and breakfast accommodation, bike hire, GPS route maps and navigation app, luggage transfers and services of a local representative. exodustravels.com headwater.com


Wales specialist Adventure Tours UK promotes the carbon credentials of its breaks


Adventure Tours UK is keen to develop ties with the trade after claiming to be the first inbound operator to measure the carbon footprint of all its tours. The operator has urged agents


with clients who want to travel responsibly on small-group tours


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in Wales, and tour operators looking to add Wales to their portfolio, to get in touch. The Wales specialist offers


adventure breaks ranging from wellness retreats to hiking trips. It has worked with sustain- ability consultancy ecollective


to calculate the carbon footprint of its tours, including the carbon emissions of its remote-working


employees. Each tour on its web- site now includes a carbon label. Adventure Tours claims its


UK holidays average 15kg of CO2 emissions per person per day, compared with 122kg for a typical multi-activity holiday in Croatia. adventuretoursuk.com


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