Adeus Portugal 🇵🇹. Até breve 🙋‍♂️. Next stop: Malta 🇲🇹. #AdvConf2025

Abta reinstates Baldwins Travel membership as agency appeals expulsion

Hotelplan UK brands tipped to flourish in Kuoni parent's safe hands

Kuoni parent Dertour Group has acquired Hotelplan Group, including its four UK trade-facing brands – Inghams, Explore Worldwide, Santa's Lapland and Inntravel. No terms have been disclosed, and the deal will yet be subject to regulatory approval www.ttgmedia.com/news/breakin...

Moth-infested? I know just the chap... 👀 @stevechapple.bsky.social 🦋

London agency 7Seas Holidays vows to double team in size after relocating

Bonkers how Aston Villa's last transfer window was deemed a success mainly because we hung on to Jhon Duran, whereas this one will mainly be deemed a success by hanging on to Ollie Watkins and selling Duran 🤷‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... #avfc

Lancashire agency The Departure Hub defiant despite peaks burglary shock

villa Villa VILLA VILLA Villa villa. #villa #avfc #villavillavilla 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁

The only true voice of the people. I follow no other doctrine.

Heathrow gets its green light – but let's be clear, this is just the start of another absolutely monster phase of back and forth that will take years, maybe decades, and will cost billions upon billions before a spade gets anywhere near the ground www.ttgmedia.com/news/breakin...

Quite aside from the fact this highlights some terrific progress that needs to be replicated at scale, and its accessibility by rail, Austria's SkiWelt is where I learned to ski and is simply one of my very favourite places in the world. This was a joy to read www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Celebrity to operate river cruises after agreeing 10-ship deal

EasyJet holidays targets 25% growth after early winter profits leap by £12 million

I note the orange one has risen again 🍊. Biden was never really cut out to find all those horcruxes, was he?

Hays Travel franchisees join forces to set up new business

Crisp in Mitcham ❄️.

This will obviously be an unmitigated disaster that will cause untold harm to people's lives and democracy, but at the same time, if it accelerates the demise of 'big social media', then 🤷‍♂️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The key ships launching in 2025 – and how agents can get on them

Darts, The. #TheDarts 🎯

Team effort this one – hard to condense a full (and yet only three-day-old) year down to 1,000 words, but here we go www.ttgmedia.com/news/what-do...

'Sri Lankans were so happy to see tourists replace aid workers'

The only way to start Christmas day 🐷🥧.

Out of office: on. You may start your Christmases ☃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=coOz...

'There's so much opportunity out there for agents heading into 2025'

Space is cool. Shows that make/made kids excited about space are also cool. #sunprobe

Blimey. Darts 🎯. #thedarts

'Our ambition is limitless,' says Classic Collection B2B director Si Morris-Green as the brand heads into 2025 off the back of a year of change – change he and his team hopes will set Classic up to better serve agents and for growth www.ttgmedia.com/news/si-morr...

Doets Doets Doets 🎯. What a bananas game. #thedarts

Barrhead Travel appoints Nicki Tempest-Mitchell to newly created managing director role www.ttgmedia.com/news/nicki-t...

Mark Duguid: 'It's my job to make Kuoni a lot more contemporary and relevant'

Great thing about Reach sites is how all the junk page furniture lets you essentially mask from any snoopers what it is you’re reading (okay, trying to read). Genius design. Gowon, try and work out what I’m readi- sorry, trying to read. You can’t, can you? *chef’s kiss*

‘Work’ ☃️. Team TTG x easyJet holidays BOP 🍊.

Further to this, all these lists look suspiciously similar – coolcations, me-mooning, set-jetting and consumers 'trading up' their holiday experiences coming up multiple times. Tempted to run a few of them through a ChatGPT / AI checker... 👀

Holidays, city breaks, villas, and now weddings. Jet2-what next? www.ttgmedia.com/news/jet2hol...

Always my favourite launch of the year – looking forward to hitting the #TTGTop50 campaign trail next year 🎯 www.ttgmedia.com/news/shortli...

7am trading updates are enough of a shock to the system, but 6am'ers (Hanover time) in the throes of a post-Christmas party haze are simply monstrous. Back to bed.

Package sales through agents still core to our business, insists Tui chief

Dame Irene Hays: 'We have to keep finding new ways to make more money'

EasyJet recently indicated it would review its domestic route network after the chancellor revealed plans put another couple of quid on APD. But is the UK's rail network ready to take up the slack if the airlines have had enough? One TTG commentator isn't convinced www.ttgmedia.com/sustainabili...

Is it just me, or does it feel like everyone's REALLY polished up their crystal balls over the past couple of weeks? I don't remember there being quite much effort – certainly within travel – put into predicting the weeks and months that are to come. Bring back Mystic Meg 🔮.

I don't use Spotify, but in the spirit of it (seemingly) being #SpotifyWrapped day, a quick survey of my brain leads me to suspect my most listened in 2024 ran something like: 1. The Smile 2. Nick Cave 3. The Smashing Pumpkins 4. Weezer 5. Compilations of Unai Emery saying 'Good ebening!'

Sell up? Keep calm and carry on? Or take on more staff and really go for it? There are a lot of changes coming next year that will create opportunities for travel businesses, and give owners pause for thought. Here are five we've picked out agents should be aware of www.ttgmedia.com/news/2025-sh...

It's been a busy day at Classic Collection – here's everything you need to know about the brand's 'transformative' 2024, its return to profitability, and plans for 2025 – including more fam trips, additional trade call centre support and extra marketing resources www.ttgmedia.com/news/classic...

Home time. Ciao Cyprus 🇨🇾. (Sorry Jet2 🍊).

Ngl, going to miss waking up to this a bit over the next few days…

Unexpected detour courtesy of Jess the Jet2holidays time machine 🎄.

Black Friday creating 'mini peaks' as value becomes consumers' top priority

Had the pleasure of sitting down with Jet2holidays' director of digital James Malyon to talk through the launch to agents of Jet2's new AI conversational search, and pick his brains on how he sees the airline and operator's tech roadmap evolve with trade in mind www.ttgmedia.com/news/jet2-cl...

Jet2holidays conference day two. Jess the time machine is spluttering back into life 🤖.