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TIPTO Appoints Newmarket Holidays’ Richard Forde as New Chair travel

TIPTO Appoints Newmarket Holidays’ Richard Forde as New Chair

Newmarket Holidays’ Head of Trade Sales, Richard Forde, has been appointed as the new Chair of trade marketing membership group TIPTO (the Truly Independent Professional Travel Organisation).

He replaces Nick Hughes, who recently left TIPTO member Gold Medal to join Princess Cruises and who held the Chair role for 3 years from September 2019.

Newmarket Holidays has been a...

Newmarket Holidays Launches  Lapland Santa Experience Day Trips for 2023

Newmarket Holidays Launches Lapland Santa Experience Day Trips for 2023

Escorted tours specialist, Newmarket Holidays, has announced the launch of its Lapland Santa Experience Day Trips for 2023. With sales for Lapland in 2022 having proved extremely popular, and with Christmas fast approaching, the operator has put on sale 18 new dates for 2023, departing from a large number of regional airports, including Belfast, Cardiff and Norwich, as well as new options...

Newmarket Holidays Launches Christmas Crackers Edinburgh Christmas Market

Newmarket Holidays Launches Christmas Crackers

Newmarket Holidays has launched last-minute booking discounts on more than 20 Christmas tours, including festive markets and captivating getaways at home and abroad.

The operator's extensive programme of Christmas-themed tours includes Europe's most popular Christmas markets and some hidden gems, plus short breaks that explore snowy wildernesses and escape the gloom of British winter...

Newmarket Holidays Adds New Tours to Popular Africa and Latin America Programmes

Escorted tours specialist Newmarket Holidays has launched new long-haul breaks to Victoria Falls and Mexico as part of the company’s ongoing expansion in both Africa and Latin America.

The operator has added the two new tours to its range of guided holidays in 2023, following the popularity of its safari and long-haul tour and beach breaks in 2022.

On Safari in Victoria...

Newmarket Holidays Adds Extra Dates to Egypt Travel Tour Following 300% Increase in Bookings

Newmarket Holidays, the award-winning escorted tour operator, has added more dates for its 11-day “Cairo, Luxor and Nile Cruise” tour further to an increase of over 300% in bookings in the last twelve weeks compared to 2019. Forward bookings for 2023 for the popular Egyptian tour have also already exceeded those for 2019 and Newmarket Holidays is predicting bumper sales for the year ahead....

Newmarket Holidays Upgrades Agent Site with New Features

Newmarket Holidays, the award-winning escorted tour operator, has upgraded its agent-dedicated website with new features and improvements to make accessibility to its products easier than ever. Among the upgrades is the introduction of a centralised location for all agent-based downloadable product materials; the optimisation of the generation of documents; the simplification of document...

Newmarket Holidays Appoints New Director of E-commerce

Newmarket Holidays has appointed a new Director of E-commerce, Dwaine Bryan, to drive innovation and evolve the online environment as part of the escorted tour operator’s e-commerce strategy. Having previously worked across a wide range of recognised lifestyle and retail brands, Bryan is an all-round e-commerce professional expert in increasing revenue through improved user experience,...

Newmarket Holidays Continues Recruitment Drive with Appointment of Senior Product Management Roles

Newmarket Holidays, the escorted tour operator, has further strengthened its Product Team with the appointment of a new Head of Product Planning and Strategy, Verity Rice, and a new Head of Product - Europe, the UK and Ireland, Michael Fleetwood. The appointment of Rice and Fleetwood comes off the back of encouraging results for the operator post-pandemic and marks an exciting time in the...

Indonesia Reveals United Kingdom as Best Performing Market for Travel and Tourist Arrivals in 2022

The Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy of the Republic of Indonesia has today released statistics showing that the United Kingdom is the best performing market for tourist arrivals to Indonesia in 2022 against target. Despite all the challenges being faced by the travel industry this year, the UK achieved 558.8% of its target between January and June 2022.

The month of June...

Newmarket Holidays Rewards Agents To Celebrate National Travel Agents’ Day

Newmarket Holidays, the escorted tour operator, celebrated National Travel Agents’ Day on Friday 22nd July by giving every single travel agent who made a Newmarket Holidays booking on the day a £50 Love2shop gift voucher. The rewards were given to say a big thank you to all their superstar travel agent partners for their hard work, constant support and consistent sales support after what has...