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“Many travellers want to meet local people and experience their cultures and ways of life,” said Jaclyn Leibl-Cote, Collette’s president and chief brand officer, “small groups make that possible.”

The tour operator hosted top sellers, partners, key travel players and media friends (that’s us!) for poolside shenanigans in sunny Cairns.

We spent the past few days sipping mojitos by the pool in Cairns… Oh, and attending Collette’s travel forum! Here’s proof we were listening.

We’re headed to sunny Cairns this week to rub shoulders with travel’s big wigs at Collette’s annual big bash. See you there!

Travel Weekly has also applied to join Virtuoso’s list of preferred suppliers, but we keep getting told that just because we offer a tour of our office we don’t qualify as a holiday tour provider.

Keen to get back to doing what you love with a legacy travel company? Well, dust off that CV and get applying!

While Travel DAZE 2021 is only weeks away, that hasn’t stopped us from adding several more speakers to the line-up (which is bulging with talent, might we add)!

Thought the already brilliant speaker line-up for Travel DAZE couldn’t get any better? Be proven wrong here with a few more fresh faces.

You’ve been a very patient bunch since we launched Travel DAZE 2021 last month, and now it’s finally time to reward you with this big announcement!

Get your clients a cheeky discount on a few of Collette’s most popular and iconic trips, including some absolute bangers through Kyoto and Sicily.

Tell your clients to get ready to gorge themselves on arancini and caponata because three of the seven new trips involve the jewel of the Italian south: Sicily!