Sock it to me Route 66 Illinois and American Airlines
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm #TRAVELTRADETOGETHER
Don’t you just love Don’s Route 66 socks.
The Route 66 Illinois team representing Choose Chicago, Great Rivers and Routes, The Heritage Corridor and the Springfield Illinois certainly knocked the socks off invited trade and media partners at a very special event in the Westbury Hotel’s Grafton Suite. Partnered on the night by American Airlines, Caitriona Toner and Siobhan Baskin thanked all stakeholders and the trade for their amazing support on their direct service to Chicago from Dublin providing great access to all the Illinois Route 66 partners product all year round, sentiments shared by Mary Twomey (SVP Global Travel Trade Development).
Travel Partners boat party
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm #TRAVELTRADETOGETHER
Get the date in your Travelbiz Diary now! Wednesday the 14th of September, walk that gangplank, and join the TPG crew onboard the Corrib Princess in Galway where all the buccaneers will cruise their way through all the latest news and updates for you to share with your colleagues. Be prepared for a fun filled evening me hearties and keep an eye out for the parrots.
What’s new in Los Angeles.
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm #TRAVELTRADETOGETHER
With the resumption of the Aer Lingus direct service to Los Angeles, Los Angeles Tourism invite travel agents to discover what’s new in hotels, attractions dining and more.
After a monumental year of exciting development and new experiences, Los Angeles’ comeback story is unfolding in Southern California. To educate and engage travel trade partners from across the globe, Los Angeles Tourism has created an on-demand webinar on what’s new in LA, including new hotels, attractions, experiences, and more.
TravelbizTV – MSC World Europa
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm #TRAVELTRADETOGETHER
MSC World Europa, is the first ship in MSC’S WORLD CLASS with a ground-breaking design.
The future of cruising is coming in November 2022.
Touchdown with Aer Lingus
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm #TRAVELTRADETOGETHER
Marian Benton and Don Shearer (Travelbiz) teamed up with trade and media partners for a truly memorable day and night thanks to our hosts in Aer Lingus, Chicago’s North Shore, Choose Chicago, Tony Lane and the Visit USA team in Ireland.
American Football came to town last weekend and what a show they put on! The Northwestern Wildcats and the Nebraska Cornhuskers played their opening game of the 2022 season in the Aviva Stadium, Dublin, in front of a crowd of over 40,000 fans. The atmosphere was electric. Nebraska were favourites to win and led most of the game but Northwestern just edged it with the final score 31 - 28.
Enda departing Emirates
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm #TRAVELTRADETOGETHER
Breaking news this week as we learned of the imminent departure of Enda Corneille as Country Manager for Emirates after eight very successful and at times challenging years. Enda spoke to Don Shearer (Travelbiz) following his announcement and made it very clear that he is taking time out when he departs his role in October to take stock and decide upon the next chapter in his career. It was not an easy decision for Enda to make but feels he is leaving at the right time having managed the brand and business in Ireland through the toughest two years in our Industry and leaves now with a full restoration of the double daily service with Emirates to Dubai from Dublin.
We wish Hasan all the very best and welcome Ebuzer Tanhan
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm #TRAVELTRADETOGETHER
Turkish Airlines trade partner update.
We would like to inform you with a heavy heart that, our General Manager, Mr Hasan Mutlu, is leaving the company as of 1st of September 2022. He has assumed the role since 2016 and during his leadership which included the covid times, the darkest times for the airline industry, our Ireland station has become a big success with the 2 full flights a day to Istanbul and this summer we have added Antalya as the new direct destination with 3 full flights a week. While we say farewell to him and wish him all the best in his future endeavours, we would like to welcome and introduce our new General Manager, Mr Ebuzer Tanhan, who will start his new role on 1st of October 2022.
Join Blaithin on the 17th of September
1st September 2022 at 12:00 pm The Terry Fox run Ireland will raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society and further information and registration is available.
Air Canada is proud to be supporting the 5km Terry Fox Run Ireland on Saturday 17th September in Herbert Park Dublin and to help encourage people to take part, every entry into the run will be entered into a draw to win a pair of Air Canada tickets to Canada. The 5km route can be run or walked and is non-competitive. Think of a family fun run. Terry Fox was a young Canadian man who in 1980, following a leg amputation for bone cancer decided to run a Marathon of Hope across Canada to raise funds for Cancer research.
Classic Resorts Nominated for World Luxury Travel Awards
18th August 2022 at 12:00 pm Classic Resorts, Irish luxury travel agency and sister company of multi-award winning Cassidy Travel, have been nominated for The World Luxury Travel Awards 2022 in the Best Travel Agency category. Voting is now open and runs until 21st August with the winners announced at an Annual Gala Awards Ceremony on the 15th October in the Okinawa Kariyushi Resort Exes Onna in Japan.
Classic Resorts are over 25 years working in the industry tailor-making holidays to the travel trade and public. The brand specialises in luxury holidays to destinations all over the world and appeals to honeymooners as well as special occasion and bucket list holiday makers who want to treat themselves to a luxurious getaway
Congratulations Nick Hughes
18th August 2022 at 12:00 pm Princess Cruises has appointed Nick Hughes as its new Sales Director for UK and Europe. Hughes replaces Rachel Poultney to lead the sales team, effective from October 17.
Hughes has had a broad career in the travel industry, most latterly as Sales Director Tour Operations for dnata B2B, across the Gold Medal (and previously) Travel 2 brands. He has a track record of building successful award-winning sales and marketing teams and has widespread knowledge across multiple sectors, agency groups and suppliers.