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Travel agents celebrate Scenic’s 30th birthday
Travel agents around the country have been celebrating Scenic’s 30th birthday throughout October with in-store parties and loyalty events for past and future Scenic guests. They have been using the 30th birthday campaign, and the many never to be repeated special offers, as an opportunity to drive Scenic sales among their clients.
To mark this special milestone Scenic has launched a trade incentive and is giving agents and a companion the opportunity to win 30 days of travel with the luxury tour operator. Agents need to book and deposit the most Scenic cruise or tour bookings before 16 December. The lucky agent will win a 21 Day Gems of the Seine and Beautiful Bordeaux river cruise, an 8 Day Luxury Mekong river cruise plus a one night pre or post hotel night in Asia. Agents can also earn 30,000 bonus Scenic Rewards points on every 2017/2018 cruise or tour booking made before Friday 16 December.
Excite Holidays sends agents to Fiji
Excite Holidays has given away eight spots on their exclusive Fiji famil along with tropical inspired daily prizes over the past three weeks in their massive Fiji giveaway. In conjunction with Tourism Fiji and Virgin Australia, the winning agents will experience the very best of this stunning destination with a full itinerary and luxury accommodation.
To win a spot on the famil, agents simply had to book Fiji through Excite Holidays and flights with Virgin Australia. All winners have been announced on Excite Holidays’ Facebook page.
Winners are as follows: Ally Casey (Travel Managers), Kausar Desai (Best & Less Travel), Rossemarie Nunez (Austral Tours), Emma Seymour (Patterson Lakes Travel & Cruise), Tracey Burfield-Mills (World Travellers Remuera), Tiffany Hausler (the Travel Agent), Tina Lazell ( Helloworld Everton Hills), Ian Judd (Your Travel Club), Joyce Chen (Nice Travel), Caitlin Verrender (Create Travel Forest Lake), Nathalie Henry (Helloworld Horsham), Amy Ferguson (Travel Managers), Rebecca Norberry (Kempsy Travel & Cruise), Justine Smallwood (About Your Travel), Astrid Martin (Traveledge Holidays), Shelley Moen (Our Travel Brisbane), Greg Mangos (Travel Utopia), Stelios Missikos (MPS Travel & Tours), Vivienne Erickson (Helloworld Shepparton), Muthu Menon (Traveland Epping), Tracey Hembling (Maria Slater TRavel), Jillian Brodie (House of Travel Ellerslie NZ).
To help sell Fiji with ease, Excite Holidays has created a downloadable guide with island guides, hotel recommendation and ferry information. You can download your guide today at www.excitecampaigns.com/fiji
Travellers Choice agents go Freestyle on an LA and Fiji famil
One moment you’re sipping margaritas in Southern California, next you’re enjoying an elegant in-water dining experience in your Fijian resort’s lagoon pool. Throw in a few legendary clubs in West Hollywood and a close encounter with Kendall Jenner and you have to ask – do travel agent famils come any cooler than this?
They certainly don’t get much more fun, according to a group of nine Travellers Choice consultants who recently combined the best of California and Fiji on an enticing nine-day journey organised by Freestyle Holidays and Fiji Airways.
Three leading travel agencies in Indonesia to migrate to Travelport’s travel commerce platform
Travelport and Travelport Indonesia, Travelport’s third party distributor in Indonesia, today jointly announce new multi-year agreements signed with three of Indonesia’s leading travel agencies – Dwidayatour, one of Indonesia’s largest travel agencies servicing globally renowned companies including Radius Travel; Panorama Tours Indonesia, an award-winning travel management company; and Smailing Tours and Travel Service, one of Indonesia’s leading travel management experts established in 1967 and manages a strong clientele base including American Express.
Personal Travel Managers Experience Uniworld European River Cruising – The Verdict ‘10 out of 10’
Six personal travel managers recently enjoyed a dedicated TravelManagers’ famil to France where they experienced a six day Uniworld Boutique River Cruise on the Rhone River from Lyon to Avignon.
Hosted by Fiona Dalton, Managing Director Australia for Uniworld Boutique River Cruise Collection the personal travel managers attending the famil were New South Wales based Beverley Burt representative for Ashbury, Michelle Collins representative for Bowral, Fiona Perry representative for Corlette, Rosemary Kates representative for Wollongong with Queensland based Emma Ross representative for Bulimba and Jeanette Dickson representative for Arundel.
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