Don't miss this week's edition:
📈 Strong summer sales reported, despite pricing and availability challenges
🙌 Designer Travel praises four trainees for making over £1m in sales
❄️ 'Surge of interest' for cooler destinations this summer
+ Lots more
Let’s build on the great progress of the vaccination rollout and safely open up travel this summer
@BorisJohnson
Jobs and livelihoods depend on it. People are desperate to see friends/family overseas, make business connections & have a break
#speakupfortravel
#traveldayofaction
Comment: Standing with you all:
The impact of this crisis is devastating for the entire industry and Travel Weekly stands in support of you all, says editor-in-chief Lucy Huxley
BREAKING:
Trade bodies from across the aviation and travel industries will join forces for a travel industry day of action on June 23, to put pressure on the Government to support a safe return to international travel in time for the peak summer period.
Thomas Cook: Job vacancy directory for affected staff:
Dozens of travel firms have come forward offering Thomas Cook staff jobs or career advice after 9,000 staff were left unemployed by the travel giant’s collapse. Travel Weekly has put together a dire…
Best of luck to all nominees in the Globe Travel Awards 2018! More than 65,000 votes have been counted and we can't wait to announce the winners, will you be there on Thursday?
#TWGlobes
Huge congratulations to Andy Harmer OBE, tonight’s Outstanding Achievement winner! The award recognises his continued championing of the cruise industry and key role in the resumption of the sector after the pandemic
@UKAndyHarmer
#TWGlobes
Goodbye to our amazing editorial assistant Pat. You do so much for us and have been absolutely vital to the team, so much so we’re not sure how we will cope without you! But we wish you a very happy retirement 👋😢🎉
'Thank you for doing what you do, and don't underestimate what you mean to so many people,' - a message to travel agents from Eamonn Holmes during The
#GlobeTravelAwards
Tune in on the Travel Weekly Facebook page:
HUGE congratulations to our Outstanding Achievement Award winner Alistair Rowland! Hear what the Midcounties retail chief & Abta chair had to say about his win here:
@RowlandAlistair
#TWGlobes
#YourTW
BREAKING: Global Travel Taskforce publishes framework for restart
‘Traffic light’ listings and confirmation of resumption date due ‘by early May’
More:
We've put together a comprehensive directory, including contact details, of all the travel businesses which have come forward offering Thomas Cook staff jobs. Please share:
#thomascookstaff
#ThomasCook
Today’s webcast is tough to watch at times, but thank you to Kate Harris of Inspired Travel who was incredibly open about the battle to save her business and asked us to share what it means to her.
Watch in full here: and please share with your MP too.