This year’s Worldchoice Ireland conference, ‘Flying High with Worldchoice’, is currently underway at the Mount Wolseley Hotel, Spa and Country Club in Tullow, Co Carlow. A total of 28 business partners are holding 15-minute briefing sessions with 96 travel agents from 35 travel agencies.
The well organised and attended conference was addressed by new Worldchoice Ireland Board member Ellis Cain-Jones, Commercial Director of The Travel Network Group, which took over Worldchoice UK – and hence 50% of Worldchoice Ireland – a few years ago. This month TTNG launched Luxury Franchise and expects to have 40 such stores throughout the UK. “This new membership model is designed to protect independent retailers offering luxury holidays,” said Ellis. “Also we expect to have some 80 members of our homeworkers solution, ite, by next year.”
Welcoming the attendees, new Chairman John Haynes said: “Worldchoice now has new, younger Board members and they are – to use their own word – obsessed with Worldchoice as a product and aim to maintain and grow its position as the premier consortium in the UK and Ireland.”
One Stop Touring Shop has announced that today Insight Vacations has launched a new India, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka brochure. The Uniworld offer of €1,399 instead of €2,137 for the 8-day cruise departing Amsterdam for Frankfurt on 25th March 2012 has been extended to February.
On Monday morning Keith Prowse will be launching its Chelsea Flower Show 2012 programme for flights from Dublin or Cork to London, two nights accommodation (4-star or 5-star) and a Friday or Saturday ticket to the show on Friday 25th or Saturday 26th May, with prices from €387 to €497.
Arrow Tours has an offer exclusive to Worldchoice members of €10 cash per booking of any package holiday in December for travel at any time – and wants agents to “think of us as bedbank.ie”.
Club Travel also has a special Worldchoice offer including free published ticketing, higher GDS segment rebates, free Ypsilon booking engine including low cost, free dynamic packaging engine with multiple hotel suppliers, reduced bonding with the CAR, and no SAFI – and the chance to win a €50 Dunnes voucher.
