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Essential Knowledge
Selling:
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RICHARD SPILLER
Flight Centre
Latin America has so
much to offer clients
who want something
over and above a
standard holiday, and
LUXURY ALL-INCLUSIVE
the continent is jam
packed with highlights. Latin America is now providing All-inclusive is limited to beach
tough competition for the Far East in resorts in Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica.
With vast distances the luxury stakes. Abercrombie & Kent SuperClubs was the first to introduce
to cover, and lots of offers one of Brazil’s most exclusive the all-inclusive concept to Brazil when
time and money to be hideaways, Ponta dos Ganchos – from it opened the “super inclusive” Breezes
absorbed with simple £5,195 per person for an 11-day Costa de Sauipe.
point-to-point travel, itinerary including all flights. Occidental has two all-inclusives in
once you have a grasp New for 2009, Cox & Kings offers Costa Rica and six in Mexico including
of what your clients Exclusive Peru, combining a three-night the opulent Royal Hideaway Playacar
want, it’s best to pour Amazon cruise onboard new luxury on the Riviera Maya.
all their time and yacht MV Aqua with the new boutique Also in Mexico, Dreams Resorts &
attention into Inkaterra properties in Cusco and Machu Spas has eight all-inclusive hotels and
experiencing three or Picchu plus a gourmet tour of Lima. Secrets Resorts & Spas has three
four things in depth, ITC Classics has a range of luxury adults-only Unlimited Luxury properties.
than racing around properties in Mexico including the Riu is opening the five-star Hotel Riu
trying to “do it all”. Rosewood Mayakoba, from £2,382 for Guanacaste in 2009 on Costa Rica’s
seven nights including flights. Pacific Coast.
Don’t forget weather
patterns when
deciding where and
when to travel.
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It is best to pre- IMAGE: TUCAN TRAVEL
book one-off events
such as the Inca Trail,
Rio Carnival and
Galapagos cruises a
long way in advance to
avoid disappointment.
With regards safety,
it pays to not flaunt
wealth when travelling
much of South
ACTIVE ADVENTURE VFR
America, or to stray
too far from the This giant adventure playground There’s an estimated one million
beaten track unless has everything from sand boarding to Latinos living in the UK, and they will
you’re with an glacier walking. TrekAmerica’s 21-day want to visit friends and family. Direct
experienced guide. Ruta Maya tour takes in Mexico, Belize, flights are few and far between. British
But in the main the Guatemala and Honduras. It features Airways flies direct to Mexico City, Sao
people are warm, volcano and jungle hikes, mountain Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
friendly and eager to biking, cavern snorkelling and horse and TAM flies direct to Sao Paulo.
help wherever you go. riding (from £1,199 excluding flights). This month Air Comet begins flying
Intrepid’s Patagonian Wilderness daily to Buenos Aires via Madrid, as
With so much package includes Perito Moreno glacier well as serving destinations including
diversity between and Ushuaia – the world’s southern- Quito, Lima and Bogota. Air Europa,
countries and so most city. G.A.P Adventures’ overland which has just opened a UK sales office,
much to choose from, journeys can include volunteering. serves Buenos Aires, Caracas and
it’s a destination Tucan Travel has canopy zip wires in Salvador via Madrid. Both airlines have
worth going back to Costa Rica and glacier trekking in economy and business class cabin options
again and again. Patagonia, while On the Go has a from Madrid, and are set on expanding
range of adventurous tours. their operations to this part of the world.
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