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3 Ways to Help Your Travel Agency Clients Prepare for an Enjoyable Trip

3 Ways to Help Your Travel Agency Clients Prepare for an Enjoyable Trip

In a travel industry increasingly populated by online competitors, anything you can do to improve your customer service and stand out from the crowd gives your business an edge. One thing you can do to enhance your customer’s experience is to help make sure they’re fully prepared for their trip. An American Society of Travel Agents study found that 63 percent of travel agency customers feel that working with an agent improves the overall travel experience.

Breaking Travel News interview: Friedrich Joussen, chief executive, TUI Group

Breaking Travel News interview: Friedrich Joussen, chief executive, TUI Group

With the sixth ship in the Marella Cruises fleet taking to the water over the weekend, TUI chief executive Friedrich Joussen has made no secret of his ambitions for the sector. Speaking to the press on board the Marella Explorer, he here tells Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole about the ship and what it will bring to the European cruise market.

Avoid Tourist Traps While Seeing the Wonders of the World

Avoid Tourist Traps While Seeing the Wonders of the World

A big trip abroad is usually a once in a lifetime trip. Despite our desires to see a faraway place for what it really is - not the touristy stuff - there’s a reason millions flock to these historical treasures and breathtaking structures every year. Could you go to Egypt and avoid The Great Pyramids? Would you visit Rome but not the Colosseum? Or, pass on walking along The Great Wall of China?

5 Benefits to going on a cottage holiday

5 Benefits to going on a cottage holiday

Holidays are considered some of the most influential moments to share and create memorable moments with your loved ones. Times lost due to busy work schedules can be recovered during these moments. Newly wedded couples can also utilize this time to get to know more about each other as well as lost friends use it to patch things up.

3 Tips to save up to 10% on your next Emirates flight

3 Tips to save up to 10% on your next Emirates flight

Flights, especially long-range ones, are not cheap.  They become even more expensive if you travel using first-tier airlines such as the emirates. However, for someone who knows the hassles of international travel, shifting to some lower-tier airline is not an option. Such airlines may be cheaper, but they come at a cost to your comfort. As such, the best option you have is to find ways to cut down on your air travel costs on a major airline such as the Emirates. To help you achieve this end, here are 3 tips to save up to 10% on your next Emirates flight.

Breaking Travel News investigates: Amsterdam

Breaking Travel News investigates: Amsterdam

With Eurostar launching services to the Dutch capital earlier this year and Kimpton de Witt revitalising the hospitality product on offer in the city, what better time to visit this famous destination. Here Breaking Travel News editor Chris O’Toole boards the train.

All you’ve been waiting for . . . La Tuscia!

All you’ve been waiting for . . . La Tuscia!

La Tuscia is located just North of Rome Italy in the province of Viterbo known as The City of the Popes. It’s a region that defines a deep historic and cultural heritage linked by the ancient peoples of the area known as the Etruscans and later the Romans; and, beyond that, the Italian Renaissance. The famous Italian writer and director Pier Paolo Pasolini described this territory as “the most beautiful vista in the world,” characterized by craggy-rock formations that alternate with lush vegetation divinely laid out upon the Earth.

Why the Costa Blanca Remains So Popular

Why the Costa Blanca Remains So Popular

The Costa Blanca has long been known as a popular holiday destination for holiday makers from around the world, and it seems that trend is continuing as December 2017 saw a record 45% occupancy throughout selected hotels. Since the late fifties British tourism has come to bloom at the Costa Blanca when direct flights between England en Valencia were offered.

6 Insanely Romantic Italian Honeymoon Destinations

6 Insanely Romantic Italian Honeymoon Destinations

One thing that’s almost as important as the wedding itself is the honeymoon that follows. Couples for ages have sought out distant lands to enjoy their first days of matrimonial bliss. Italy is one country that really amps up the romance with breathtaking views, stunning architecture and some of the best food in the world. The country is ripe with romantic opportunity, and you don’t even have to look very hard for it. The most romantic Italian honeymoon destinations in no particular order are…