CONTENTS
FRONT COVER
Come together 4
Industry successfully
works together to
submit government
bid for National Skills
Academy for travel
and tourism
NEWS 4-5
Industry pulls together to bid
for National Skills Academy
for travel and tourism
NEWS 6
Trade sees strongest booking
week yet for summer 2010
sales, compared with 2009
NEWS 10
Globespan could face
employment tribunal
following 650 redundancies
NEWS 12
ITT Conference 2010 preview
PICTURE
OF THE
WEEK
First
Choice
First Choice is launching a campaign to donate £150,000
worth of free holidays to bereaved families and the
families of injured service men and women. Tamzin
Outhwaite, who starred as an army sergeant in the hit
BBC drama series Red Cap, is supporting the campaign.
One holiday for every 20 bookings will be provided
to families of service personnel. Adrian Gordon, shop
manager of the First Choice branch in Wood Green,
London is pictured with Outwaite.
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MARKET
INTELLIGENCE 14
Adgenie, the UK targeted
advertising firm, forecasts US
giants’ arrival within a year
SPECIAL REPORT 16
AA Appointments salary
survey predicts many travel
staff will face pay freezes or
even cuts in 2010
MAUREEN 31
A spot of Carr trouble at
the Globe Travel Awards,
Groucho Marx on the slopes
and another foolish customer
COMMUNITY COMMM
32
Readers’ Readders’
letters and the
latest latestt from fro Travel Weekly’s
community comm mun site – the travelhub
MYSTERY MYSSTER
SHOPPER… 34
We asked
Leamington Spa
agents to find a
holiday in
Portugal –
and they all
suggested the
same hotels.
HOW TO… 37
make clients’ money go
further
DESTINATIONS
Turkey 39
Lisa James finds out more
about the increasingly
popular region of Fethiye;
Joanna Booth highlights the
attractions of Istanbul, this
year’s Capital of Culture
Travel Technology 47
Nick Easen previews the
Travel Technology Show in
London, which has social
media, policy compliance and
Europe among the themes
CLASSIFIED 51
For products and services
RECRUITMENT 53
Travel industry jobs
47
45
39
“The business was
never in trouble, but
it’s like steering a ship
through rocky waters.
Looking at the
forecast, it was going
to be really tough and
no one knew if it was
going to pick up.”
Tony Seaman, sales
and marketing
director, Attraction
World on staff
working four-day
weeks to help the
company
See pages 4-5
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