The first monthly kicks off with news including ‘Trade warned over refunds legal cases’ and all you need to know about the latest cruise guidance.
Other headlines include ‘Speakman: Industry made a terrible mistake’ and ‘Agents undecided about potential Cook partnership’.
We’ve included two pages of coverage from TTG’s first mental health-focused ‘Get travel talking’ seminar, with headlines including ‘Panel calls on consortia to support homeworkers’ and ‘Staggering demand for travel sector action group’.
We’ve included product pages to fill you in on the latest updates from cruise lines and operators too, with headlines including: ‘Riviera ramps up trade focus in bid to become force to be reckoned with’ and ‘Sportsbreaks raring to work with agents’.
The big interview this month is with new Blue Bay Travel chief Alistair Rowland: ‘Rowland sets out plans to diversify and double the size of Blue Bay Travel by 2023’. We also sat down with Fred Olsen Cruise Lines boss Peter Deer: ‘We will have our work cut out… but the best way forward is to invest for the next 10 years’.
For the analyses, we focus on the winter holiday market, and take a look at TTG Travel Agent Tracker responses over the past month.
In our Business Advice section we catch up with TTG Travel Heroes mentee Sam Tyers from Destina Travel to find out how the partnerships have fared over a challenging summer.
Next, we chat to Angus Drummond, founder of accessible holidays specialist Limitless Travel about empowering vulnerable people; and Isleworth Travel Management’s Brett Gerrett about this years challenges and his hopes going forward.
After a sponsored feature on what makes Lanzarote a great destination, we put a focus on Porto and Lisbon, and why they make a great pairing.
The next feature of the section offers an overview of some fab quirky UK hotels, including Manchester’s Hotel Football, followed by a look at the adventurous side of Mauritius for honeymooners.
We suggest some great UK active breaks, and feature a Q&A with Club Med’s UK managing director Estelle Giraudeau.
This month’s One Last Thing column comes from Tour America’s Mary McKenna: ‘Irish agents face some different challenges’.
The TTG Luxury pages kick off with the latest luxury news, including ‘ITC steps up commitment to trade with new hire’, with an exclusive interview with Lisa Smith following on p72.
Other headlines include ‘Four Seasons set to gain new properties’.
We round up the latest product debuts and hotel openings before reporting from a first overseas trip to Crete, and Tried & Tested visits Villa La Massa in Tuscany.
