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In brief
Expanding Africa
■ Goldtrail offers festive packages to Turkey
Goldtrail Holidays, the specialist operator to
Turkey, has added several all-inclusive packages
for Christmas and New Year, with flights from
operator rebrands
Gatwick and Manchester to Bodrum and Dalaman
on December 20 and 27. Prices start from £359
Kay McLellan.
for Christmas and £379 for New Year, including CC AFRICA, the luxury safari lodge and camp
flights, transfers and a gala dinner. operator, has rebranded itself as &Beyond as it
prepares for a global expansion.
■ Balkan expands regional flights to Croatia The specialist ecotourism operator aims to
Balkan Holidays has added five regional flights to double its business in the next three years. It
Croatia and a link from Prestwick to Bourgas in currently has 45 safari lodges and camps across
Bulgaria for summer 2009. Flights to Croatia Africa and plans to open a further 20 lodges out-
depart from Exeter, Leeds/Bradford, Edinburgh, side of Africa, while also growing its African base.
Belfast and Southampton to Dubrovnik, with an &Beyond recently opened two lodges in India,
additional service from Southampton to Split. with a further two due to launch in the coming
Packages to Croatia start from £249. months. Following this, it will turn its attention
to Central and South America, with destinations
■ Superbreak tops 100,000 overseas sales to include Costa Rica, Peru, Ecuador, the
Superbreak has booked more than 100,000 Pantanal wetland region of Brazil, and Bolivia.
customers on its overseas accommodation in a The operator, which focuses on responsible
year for the first time. For the coming year, it has tourism and uses local guides, has a turnover of
introduced new destinations, including Brisbane, about $100 million and attracts 50,000 guests
Auckland, Fez, Palm Springs and Washington DC. a year, mainly from the UK and US.
Richard Bowden-Doyle, group chairman of
■ Erna Low reports rise in Switzerland sales &Beyond, said the company was in a strong
Erna Low Ski has reported a rise in popularity for position to expand, having just experienced its
Switzerland, with bookings to the resorts of Saas best trading year.
Fee, Zermatt and Verbier up threefold year-on- “The definition of luxury is changing and there
year. The operator is offering self-catering is huge expansion in the market. It’s much more
accommodation from £381 for seven nights in a about what you do than where you go, as people
one-bedroom apartment sleeping up to four. are looking for enriching experiences,” he said. Luxury camp operator &Beyond aims to grow outside Africa
■ Cottages4you touts Christmas getaways
Cottages4you is offering almost 1,000 short
breaks over Christmas and the New Year. Options Somak buoyed by repeat sales
include a Yorkshire cottage sleeping four for
£359.50 and a timber lodge house sleeping eight SOMAK Holidays has revealed Africa is bucking on a par with 2007, but week-on-week figures
in Cornwall from £854.50. Prices are for four the downward trend in long-haul travel, with its since October 1 are 15-30% higher than the same
nights arriving December 23. repeat booking rate for the continent over 70%. period last year.
Ash Sofat, chief executive of Somak, said that Sofat said Africa was benefiting from not
■ Leger promotes Armistice and D-day tours despite reports that operators such as Tui Travel being as affected by the credit crunch as other
Leger Holidays is highlighting its European were suffering a fall in long-haul bookings as a countries and having favourable exchange rates.
Battlefield tours ahead of landmark dates such as result of high fares, its bookings to Africa were up He said: “There is a certain wow factor in
the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World year-on-year, with demand stronger than ever. Africa and people feel they get more than they
War on November 11 and the 65th anniversary of Somak has seen growth in bookings to paid for. A lot of our guests go back and our
the D-day landings in 2009. A special anniversary Zanzibar, with Tanzania up by 12.3% year-on- repeat levels to Africa are about 72%. We’re also
tour to Normandy next June costs from £269. year and South Africa up by 6%. seeing a lot of growth from referrals.
Kenya is also bouncing back from its political “Africa in terms of global tourism is very small
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