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Final thoughts...Now that the Christmas and New Year
celebrations are over and winter has set in, it is time to cheer
yourselves up by booking a holiday to look forward to. Along with
all the advice my agency can offer you, we are repeating our very
successful in store promotion days in January and February, the
details of which are on the attached information sheet. At these
events you will find out more about upcom-ing attractions and
offers such as our promotion with Leeds/Bradford Airport whereby
anyone booking a holiday valued at over £550 per per-son through my
agency in January and February, will receive a compli-mentary
Fastrack pass and entrance to the Yorkshire Premier Lounge-a
perfect start to your holiday! Throughout January & February we
will continue with our recent policy of extending our opening hours
on Saturday afternoons until 4 p.m. and on Sundays we will open on
an
appointment only basis. So for anyone having difficulties
getting to our office during normal opening hours I will be more
than happy to make myself available for a private and personal
discussion of your travel needs for 2015 and beyond. To make an
appoint-ment, ring the office no later than Thursday evening prior
to the Sunday, to arrange a mutually convenient time. Although the
last few months have been generally quieter we do have a number of
things to report on relating to my business and the village. At the
end of September Bradford Council at last gave their approval for a
car park on the site of the Wibsey Fairground. Although a slightly
smaller version than the original plans, this will hope-fully be
better than nothing. Keep your fingers crossed that the work will
start in 2015. In October we held a cruise promotion
Thornton and at the end of November
a Coach Holiday promotion day
cluded a 2 course lunch and enter-tainment at Nidd Hall. The
events were part of the continuing celebra-tion of our 25 years
trading with two quality companies we are keen to support.
At the beginning of December we start-ed a refurbishment
programme. The office has been re-decorated, a new
carpet laid and we are now display-ing some fabulous photographs
from holiday destinations around the world. All the work has been
carried out by local businesses and photographs provided by one of
my very loyal customers. So with all we have put in place for
January and February you have no excuses not to pay us a visit! We
look forward to seeing you soon.
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Don’t forget Stephen Howard Travel can book your Hoseasons Break
for you today!*Save up to £200 per week and £100 per short break if
booked before 28/02/15. Applies to selected park/lodge locations
and selected accommodation types – accommodation only, based on
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School Summer Holidays
The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) has published
its annual re-port into trends in travel with some interesting
findings. As I have found in my agency, the past 12 months has been
mixed
changing in response to world events. However, holidays still
remain im-portant to the British pub-lic and the main reason
time has overtaken
son for taking a holiday. There has also been a slight increase
in the numbers of people taking a holiday both overseas and in the
U.K. but the biggest increase has been in the numbers who are
returning from booking
-It-Yourself holi-
holiday. The main reasons given for this is the value in having
everything tak-en care of. The top 10 elements con-sidered when
booking a holiday were: *Safe and secure accom-modation standards
*Financial Protection Scheme *ATOL protection *Booking with a
member of ABTA *Knowledgeable staff *Greatest value for money *Ease
of transportation to the airport *The range of holidays on offer *A
well- known name in the travel industry *Lowest prices
The top ten types of holi-day booked during the past year were:
city breaks, beach holi-days, all inclusive holi-days, lakes and
mountains, trips to music events, cruise and coach holidays,
activi-ty and sporting holidays, train holidays and trips to major
sporting events. My confidence in my agen-cy grows as I read the
re-port. We know that we can organise all of the holiday types
mentioned and tai-lor make holidays for sin-gle travellers through
to large groups. Above all we continue to pride our-selves in
offering all the important holiday ele-ments to suit every
indi-vidual client.
Opening Hours
Mon 9 5.30
Tue 9 5.30
Wed 9 1.00
Thu 9 5.30
Fri 9 5.30
Sat 9 4.00
Sun by appointment*
*Only in January and February
Why take the risk? We are able to issue poli-cies with a
starting cost of £18.15 for a single trip and £49.92 for an annual
policy, these prices include IPT and can be organised at the point
of sale of a holiday.
Following research which found that a growing num-ber of
travellers are trav-elling overseas without insurance, ABTA is
warn-ing about the dangers of this and the risks in-volved. Whilst
the FCO will do what they can to support people in difficul-ties
when abroad they cannot cover medical bills
or fly people home. These costs can run into thou-sands. For
example: An X ray in Corfu or stitch-es in Tenerife can cost £500
An MRI scan in Ibiza can be £1,000 Air ambulance from South-ern
Spain can be £25,000 (all facts and figures were sourced on the
22/10/2014 from www.abta.com)
Titan see the World differently
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Where my custom-ers go on holiday
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Chaos on the M62 3
Cruise updates River Cruising
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Scotland 3
Hoseasons Holidays
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Final Thoughts 4
Inside this issue:
January 2015 Issue 25
210 High Street
Wibsey
Bradford
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Tel : 01274 691409
Stephen Howard T/A STEPHEN HOWARD TRAVEL is an appointed
representative of ITC Compliance Limited which is authorised and
regulated by the FCA (their registration number is 313486) and
which is permitted to advise on and arrange general insurance
contracts.
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Anyone travelling from Manchester Airport over the next 18
months be-ware! The M62 to Manchester is going through a similar
transition to the one we have experienced locally between Bradford
and Leeds with the managed motorway concept. We would therefore
strongly recommend you allow much more time for your journey and in
the case of flights pri-or to 11.00a.m. would strongly sug-gest you
consider the many over-night hotel options available at Man-chester
Airport all bookable with my agency. We book the hotels located
within the perimeter of the airport such as the Radisson Blu,
Hilton, Bewleys
and Crowne Plaza along with more economical options such as the
Premier Inns and Britannia Country House. Rates available for just
hotel only or to include car park-ing can be obtained and usually,
with the hotels within a 15-20 mi-nute drive of the airport, these
in-clude return transfers. Looking for a recommendation? We would
suggest you look no further than the Etrop Grange Hotel, only
minutes from the airport but due to the road network you would be
ad-vised to use their complimentary transfers rather than
attempting to walk with your suitcases. It is unlike an airport
hotel and has a very nice
restaurant if you want to start your holiday in style. Rates
alter depending on the time of year and availability. At the Etrop
Grange you should expect to pay around £100 to include the
overnight stay based on room only and 7 nights car parking. Early
indications are that hotel ac-commodation will be in demand over
this period so our suggestion would be to do this sooner rather
than later and of course through my agency!
Groats from £209pp for 4 nights din-ner bed and breakfast with 2
and a half days of excursions included. If you prefer to travel by
train, then Rail Discoveries offer a comprehen-sive range of tours.
From £495pp for a 6 day fully escorted tour you can
iconic railways- Considered to be one of
the train travels through areas only accessible by train,
passing Rannoch, Ben Nevis and the Glenfinnan Via-duct. This is
followed by an excursion
As it is now definite that we will not require a passport to
travel to our dear neighbour, why not consider a break to this
country of diverse land-scapes with its breath-taking moun-tains
soaring over gleaming lochs, vibrant cities and exciting culture?
Alfa Coach Holidays offer a 4 night hotel stay with dinner bed and
breakfast in the Bridge of Allan with a guided tour of Edinburgh
and Glasgow at a starting price of £219 pp. Or travel to the most
northern
on the Jacobite Steam Train, a coach tour of the Isle of Skye as
well as pre and post tour stays in Glasgow. And then of course the
not-to-be missed Edinburgh Military Tattoo is bookable through a
range of opera-tors. For example Shearings in-clude a trip to
Edinburgh and tick-ets to the tattoo with some of their coach
holidays to Scotland such as The Bay Tarbet Hotel on the banks of
Loch Lomond from £399pp with 4 nights half board. For details of
these and many more just give us a call!
year with more facilities and opu-lence.
Uniworld River Cruises will launch Maria Theresa in Spring to
sail tulip-time cruises followed by Amsterdam and Budapest in
summer complete with indoor swimming pool, cinema and leopard
themed bar.
Emerald Waterways are launching Emerald Sun and Emerald Dawn
cruising Between Amsterdam and
Budapest and Amsterdam and Basel respectively and Avalon will
base their new Avalon Tapestry in France to sail the Seine from
Paris.
For a different French itinerary, Criosi Europ has designed a
shallow-draft 96 passenger vessel to sail the Loire.
With so much on offer please see our enclosed flyer which
explains why using a travel agent is a wise option.
With ever -more exotic itineraries and combined cruise and stay
op-tions, river cruising is now attracting more and more clients
including a younger audience.
Though British clients still book predominantly Rhine and Danube
cruises, there is a wide range of op-tions available including
cruises on The Mississippi, Ganges and Me-kong with varying
durations as many new craft enter operation this
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Cruise Updates: Cruising down the river
SCOTLAND
Chaos on M62? Arrive relaxed and on time...
WHERE MY CUSTOMERS GO ON HOLIDAY...
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