FINAL CALL!
Avis and Budget has reminded us that they have expanded their Commercial Vehicle Fleet offering in New Zealand. They have also made the booking process simpler and have integrated this into the regular booking process available through your Domestic Travel Specialists or via our Serko Zeno online booking tool.
Grant has returned from the Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas, the world’s largest luxury travel show where almost 5000 industry leaders get together to do business. Aside from a number of educational seminars and panels Grant had personal meetings with many hotel, resort, cruise line or tour company General Managers, CEO’s or Owners selected by us to align with our New Zealand based client’s travel patterns and aspirations – covering our corporate, leisure and groups/meetings specialisations. This included a reunion with our friend Antonello Buino, GM at Borgo dei Conti in Perugia, a Relais & Chateaux property (pictured).
On current trends, the temperature has gone down on the popular international tourism, meaning that cold destinations are amongst the fastest growing destinations. Travel to the Arctic, Antarctic, Greenland, Iceland and Alaska has reached new heights as travellers of all ages seek out these ‘bucket list’ experiences. There has been big growth in +55 age group Women’s touring as well as sports event travel (Golf majors, Tennis, US football and motor racing). We have all the latest intelligence, products and most of all the connections to book you and your family, friends or colleagues any of these options.
From the corporate perspective there are quite a few new five-star hotels and short-stay executive apartments opening in our key corporate cities such as New York, London and other capitals. Many are former or new-build office conversations as the global ‘office land scape’ changes. Many developers have moved to mixed use developments incorporating hotels as they can’t currently sell the same amount of office space. Travellers get the benefit with upscale new properties at reasonable rates and with our Virtuoso benefits.