NEWS
Explore unveils guide offering agents sales tips
Explore has created an agent sales guide offering selling tips for the trade, a round-up of the operator’s most popular trips, and details of agent incentives and benefits. Request the guide via the Explore Agents Facebook page or through your business development manager.
HF Holidays adds nine trips to programme
Walking specialist HF Holidays has added nine trips to its 2020 European and Worldwide range. Highlights include a Chile & Easter Island holiday that visits Santiago, the Atacama Desert and Easter Island. Walkers will follow the Meseta Trek route in the Andes and visit Salar de Atacama, one of the world’s largest VDOW ODNHV DQG KRPH WR ਮDPLQJRV ौH 12-night holiday starts at £5,399 including ਮLJKWV DFFRPPRGDWLRQ DQG VRPH PHDOV
Great Rail Journeys expands Great Rail Journeys has introduced a tour of Scotland that will
allow customers to get up close to a Shetland pony and to explore the archipelago’s Norse and prehistoric settlements. The week- long Orkney, Shetland & Caledonian Sleeper small-group tour is one of eight itineraries added to the operator’s Europe and the British Isles brochure for 2020, some of which come with a new inclusive luggage transfer service and a £100 saving for bookings made by October 15. Other new tours explore Italy, Spain and France. The seven-day Cities of Provence & The French Riviera small-group tour visits Avignon, Pont du Gard aqueduct, Coustellet’s Lavender Museum, Nice and Monaco. Prices start at £1,995 including rail travel and accommodation in four-star hotels.
A nine-day wildlife tour of Tasmania is one of five new tours Down Under from Cosmos sister brand Globus. The trip offers a chance to spot penguins and whales, hike in Mount Field National Park and cruise in Wineglass Bay (from £2,350).
6 September 2019
Gorilla permits to rise by $100 in two Ugandan parks
Gorilla permits for two Ugandan parks, Mgahinga and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, are due to rise from $600 to $700, from July 1, 2020. Tim Henshall, chief executive of Kamageo, which represents Uganda Tourism in the UK, said: “It’s great news for visitors that the increase is only by $100 and a brilliant move to keep demand for
gorilla tracking in Uganda.” i Turn to page 29 for more on viewing gorillas in the wild
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