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Travel House recruits 11
ex-XL staff for ‘US’ shop
Mark Lewis.
Young accepted that opening a new shop in The opening of the Florida call centre
WELSH independent agency Travel House has the autumn was not the ideal time, but said and retail outlet caps a busy few months of
reaped the benefits of the XL Leisure Group the extra enquiries, on top of the number of opportunistic expansion for the chain.
collapse by employing 11 redundant staff to unemployed Florida-specialist staff available to The group opened a store on the site of a
launch a specialist Florida outlet and call centre hire, made the opportunity to open a new outlet vacated Going Places shop in Swansea, and is
in Swansea. and call centre too good to miss. in talks about two more vacated Thomson stores
The 26-store chain is also eyeing two new “It is the first Florida shop in Wales and in the same city.
shops in Swansea following the closure of possibly the UK,” claimed Young. Young said the company had enjoyed success
Thomson stores in those locations. “Between them, the 11 staff have 90 years’ in areas where rivals had closed stores. “In
Travel House head of sales Rob Young said experience in the Florida market.” Carmarthen there used to be four stores and
sales at the chain soared 20-30% in the two The shop opened on October 4 and took its in the last two months it has gone down to two,
weeks following the collapse of XL subsidiary first three bookings, worth about £2,000 each, and we have been pleased with the results
and Florida specialist, Travel City Direct. on Wednesday. there,” he said.
In brief
■ SAS starts Copenhagen-Delhi service
Scandinavian Airlines is introducing a service
from Copenhagen to Delhi. Connections to the
new service, which will run three times a week,
will be available from Heathrow, Birmingham and
Manchester airports. Fares start from £505.
■ British Airways to fly Gatwick-St Kitts
British Airways will operate a weekly flight to
St Kitts in the Caribbean from January 10. The
new service will fly from Gatwick every Saturday.
St Kitts will be BA’s 11th destination in the
Caribbean. Return fares start at £710.
■ Ryanair considers no-frills long-haul airline
Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary said there was a “real
possibility” he might launch a long-haul, no-frills LUHRMANN CAMPAIGN: Tourism Australia has launched an advertising campaign,
carrier if cheap aircraft became available. He said called “Australia the Movie”, created by Baz Luhrmann, director of Moulin Rouge.
it would be a separate company to Ryanair, but Tourism Australia says the video campaign is unlike any other tourism promotion
shareholders could participate. The collapse of because it is cinematic in style. A print campaign (above) will accompany the ads
more carriers would facilitate the plan, he added.
■ Hindhurst Travels founder passes away
Allbury to return to Greece in 2009
Bryan Hansford, founder of Hindhurst Travels,
African Adventure Tours, Carlton International ALLBURY Travel Group’s chief executive, Eamonn Airways only affected the final month of the
Travel and Giraffe Tours, died on September 27 Ferrin, has reassured agents it is to return to summer 2008 season and customers were
at the age of 74. A celebration of his life will be Greece with a full summer 2009 programme. offered an alternative holiday or a full refund.
held at St Michael & All Angels Church, Littlebredy, Following the collapse of XL Airways, Allbury “The situation has not had an impact on our
Dorset, on November 27 at midday. was forced to cancel Libra Holidays’ remaining summer 2009 programme to Greece and we
2008 schedule, prompting concern it had perma- continue to sell Greece via the trade.
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ttglive.com However, Ferrin said: “The collapse of XL and offering incentives to help boost sales.”
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