APT’s newest product offerings are escorted China vacations, each featuring a four-day cruise on the luxury 124-passenger vessel, the Sanctuary MS Yangzi Explorer. This boutique-sized ship offers 62 suites with private balconies and an exceptionally high level of service with a crew of 130. The 13-day Imperial China package (from $5,095 pp person twin share) …
Groups of 6 or more traveling on an Explorer Ventures (EV) Liveaboard now receive one free berth for every five paid (maximum of two free per charter). “This is not a special we are offering, this is new policy,” said Clay McCardell, President of Explorer Ventures. McCardell says that booking trends have shown that people …
Maduro Dive Fanta-Seas is providing an opportunity to offer the Galapagos Islands to select clients at a discount of 55–60 percent. Packages are $1,299 for five days and $1,399 for six days, and include accommodations at the number-one rated properties on the Galapagos: the Red Mangrove Lodges. Included in the packages are all meals, excursions …
Dive Center Silberstein organizes unique underwater adventures in one of the last natural paradises on earth—the Galapagos, its dive sites ranking among the best worldwide. Beginner or advanced, any diver can discover this incredible underwater world with Dive Center Silberstein. Aside from daily dive excursions with two dives each, PADI dive courses are offered, from …
SITA World Tours, in association with APTA (The Association for the Promotion of Tourism to Africa), Kenya Airways and Air Botswana, hosted a Travel Agent Seminar in April. The successful dinner and presentation was held at the DuPage Club in Oakbrook Terrance, Illinois, with almost 60 preferred agents in attendance. Kenya Airways provided roundtrip airfare …
Home to some of the world’s famous masters of culinary creations, South Africa is every food lover’s dream. Unique dishes have appeared, from the time of the Khoisan, its first hunter-gatherers, to the black people who introduced agriculture, and later the Dutch, English, German and Portuguese immigrants. Slaves from India and Malaysia brought curry and …
“This is an incredibly exciting time for medical travel. The consumer demand is strong—and it’s growing rapidly year over year. Now is the time for the medical and travel industries to come together to service what may well be a $100-billion global market by 2012,” said Anne Marie Moebes, Executive Vice President of Well-Being Travel. …
For the fourth consecutive year, Austin-Lehman Adventures (ALA) is seeing mid-double-digit growth in 3G (three generations of same family) trips, both in preset, small-group and custom departures. Seventy-five percent of its custom exclusives are 3G bookings, most requesting national park trips, an ALA specialty. “Our Yellowstone National Park family adventures are sold out for 2011 …
In the Footsteps of St. Paul is a religious package provided by Ovadias Tours which is priced from approximately $1,110, sharing triple, and which is available from now until November, 2011. The tour features three nights’ hotel accommodation in Athens; an Athens city sightseeing tour; a four-day classical tour with Meteora in A class hotels …
Only ninety minutes apart by high-speed train, Hamburg and Berlin can conveniently be combined in one trip. With distinctly different yet complementing identities, they make a perfect pair, and a long to-do list in late summer coupled with smaller crowds and perfect temps put them at their best. In Hamburg, harbor cruises are popular, and …