News

Roadmap to Recovery: Views from abroad

Industry professionals have been among the first people back in destinations following the gradual resumption of travel from July 10.

Regent Holidays’ Andrea Godfrey has been documenting her trip to Iceland on the operator’s social channels. Follow across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter


View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Regent Holidays (@regentholidays) on


Typically Holidays‘ Tony Byrne spent five days travelling from Venice via Florence, Siena, Viareggio to to Pisa, to find out what the customers will be. Find many more updates on the operator’s Facebook page.


Luxury tour operator Inspiring Travel Company hosted five agents at Marbella Club for its first post-pandemic fam trip.

itc-group


Travel Weekly’s news editor Ben Ireland was one of the first passengers to touch down in Ibiza when he joined a Tui media trip to the Balearic island.

You can read his views on the flight experience here:
Comment: Travelling abroad is basically the same… with a mask

… and hear his thoughts on the post-Covid differences at all-inclusive hotel Tui Blue Aura, here:
Comment: If you’re happy going to your local, you’ll be comfortable on a package holiday

Ben-mask-cropped

 


Travel Weekly digital content manager David Golledge visited Malta and found it to be a crowd-free experience.

Read about his experience here

david-malta


TourHound chairman Laurence Hicks spent lockdown in Sicily with his partner and shared his experiences of the Italian island’s efforts to get back to normality.

Comment: ‘Huge strides towards normality’… a view from Sicily

Laurence-Sicily


Virgin Voyages’ Shane Lewis-Riley visited Menorca with husband Rob and son Mason.

Read how he found the flight here: Comment: Finally time to fly

Shane-Lewis-Riley


Joan Jones of Once in a Lifetime Holidays flew to Majorca with Jet2.com and said “it’s like April rather than July” in the Balearics.

joan-jones


Travel Counsellor Barbara Sutton took a Jet2holidays package to Skiathos in Greece, flying from Manchester airport with her daughter Laura. She said the island was ‘very quiet’ but added: “Let’s celebrate the restart of travel”

barbara-2

barbara-1


The Advantage Travel Partnership’s head of commercial John Sullivan was over in Ibiza, which he said was “much quieter than usual”

john-sullian-ibiza


Joanne Peters, business development manager at Palladium Hotel Group, at Ibiza’s Es Vedra. She said: “I’m here to show all the lovely agents that Ibiza is ready and waiting for them”.

joanne-peters


Louise Dixon, of Hays Travel’s Redcar branch, in Benidorm

Louise-Hays

Share article

View Comments

Jacobs Media is honoured to be the recipient of the 2020 Queen's Award for Enterprise.

The highest official awards for UK businesses since being established by royal warrant in 1965. Read more.