Lowestoft, U.K., 2012-08-24 — /travelprnews.com/ — The UK continues to offer significant opportunities for travel agents during the peak season, according to the UK’s largest self-catering holiday company Hoseasons.
Hoseasons has reported strong demand during the first three weeks of the school summer holidays, with the UK specialist also adding more than 10 percent extra capacity to its flagship Lodges & Parks programme, bringing the total on sale to over 20,000 units.
This news is backed up by Thomas Cook Co-operative Travel, the leading retailer of UK holidays and Britain’s biggest multi-channel travel retailer. Managing Director, Joanna Wild said, “Interest in UK holidays with Hoseasons has been very strong since the schools broke up. In fact, we’ve seen a spike in interest for both overseas and UK breaks, especially since the Olympics.”
“But what this surge in interest for last minute UK holidays really shows is that there’s still an opportunity for agents to build peak season business, even as we approach the end of the season,” she continued.
Helping agents take advantage of this opportunity is the priority for Hoseasons said Managing Director, Pali Badwal. “We have added around 2,000 extra units to help meet this late surge for UK bookings,” he commented. “We know how important it is to offer a full range of holidays ranging from luxury lodges to tucked-away cottages, from boats in the Norfolk Broads to all-singing caravan parks.”
“The ability to offer the right holiday to suit all types of customers at great value for money is key to meeting this demand, and our team of travel trade sales executives are working flat out to build awareness amongst agents about what is on offer, and to support them in promoting the UK to take advantage of this opportunity.”
About The Hoseasons Group
The Hoseasons Group (THG) is the UK’s leading supplier of self catering holiday accommodation with a portfolio of over 27,000 properties across the UK and Europe. THG is comprised of a variety of customer facing brands and brand families, available through travel agents or direct over the telephone or internet. THG is part of Wyndham Exchange & Rentals, part of the Wyndham Worldwide family of companies (NYSE: WYN).
About Thomas Cook Co-operative Travel
The three partners, Thomas Cook, The Co-operative Travel and Midlands Co-operative, established a joint venture on 4 October 2011 to combine their UK high street travel and foreign exchange businesses, creating the UK’s largest multi-channel travel retailer. The Thomas Cook Co-operative Travel joint venture has around 1,100 branches across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland trading under the Thomas Cook, The Co-operative Travel, Co-op Travel, Ilkeston Co-op and Going Places brands. The Co-operative Travel’s cruise businesses, call centers, independent consortia – which has around 150 members – business travel, website and home worker networks are all part of the joint venture.
Media Contacts
Andy Newman, Peter Joyner or Amanda Bunn
Hoseasons Press Office
01603 706565
press@hoseasons.co.uk
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