Express Travel Group together with African Travel Specialists recently hosted 10 agents on an eight-day luxury safari through Kenya.

Ten top performing Travel Counsellors agents travelled to the islands of Kaua‘i and O‘ahu last week on a coveted famil with Hawai‘i Tourism Oceania. After experiencing an ATV Waterfall Tour, Zipline and helicopter tour, the group relaxed at Kaua‘i’s Kōloa Landing Resort at Po‘ipū, Autograph Collection for four nights.

Kokomo Private Island Fiji hosted a group of more than 20 trade partners on an exclusive cruise around Sydney Harbour on Tuesday 3 December 2019 to thank them for their ongoing support.

Ten Travel Partners agents recently returned from a week-long reward trip in Thailand, including Bangkok and Phuket. It was the inaugural Club Verve trip for Travel Partners. Club Verve recognises and rewards the highest selling top 10 mobile and member agencies in the Travel Partners network for their excellence. A famil trip is just one of the benefits of the year long program. Other elements include free of charge attendance at the annual conference, attendance at the FCTG expos, and select invitations to preferred supplier events.

With five million viewers on SBS, the Tour de France will depart from the City of Nice in 2020, so the occasion for Atout France and Nice Tourism to organise a dinner at Sofitel Darling Harbour this week, in partnership with British Airways, Dior, GH Mumm, Christian Louboutin and Nespresso. Guests were welcomed by Denis Zanon, Director of the city of Nice Tourism.

Sydney-based sales contact Lea Seguier and Finnair co-hosted a group of Australian travel advisor partners on a France and Geneva trip in November, in cooperation with Eurail. The itinerary was designed to showcase Lea Seguier’s portfolio, which includes luxury hospitality group La Reserve hotels (Paris, Bordeaux, Ramatuelle, Geneva and next opening Zurich) and family-owned Domaine des Etangs (11th-century Chateau reconverted into a luxury five-star hotel) and Finnair which is the flag carrier and largest airline of Finland. Finnair provided round-trip business-class seats for the group, as well as valuing the combination of air and rail with the First Class train passes supplied by Eurail.

The Leading Hotels of the World has maintained its Leading Famils program with an eight-night itinerary to The Nordics recently.

This year’s Savenio Symposium will welcome a number of new affiliates to the network as the team gathers in Brisbane this weekend and celebrates a year of success.

Ynot Concepts & Lemala Camps and Lodges recently hosted a group of Africa specialists on a safari through Tanzania, travelling through the game rich parks of Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti. Lemala Camps and Lodges offered the guests a selection of unique lodges, permanent tented camps and mobile camps situated in secluded areas of unequalled natural beauty, teeming with native flora and fauna and providing these specialists with a truly unique wilderness experience.

All Nippon Airways (ANA) wanted to provide Western Australian travel industry partners with a hands-on experience flying ANA’s new daily direct Perth services to Tokyo recently.

Last week, Avani hotels hosted an event in Sydney to celebrate the hotelier’s growth in Australia following its recent additions, Avani Adelaide Residences and Avani Melbourne Box Hill. Guests were invited to a dinner at Firedoor, an award winning restaurant in Surry Hills with two hats, for a meal entirely cooked by wood fire. The venue was fitting given it prides itself on authentic food made with passion and love – the same ethos of Avani Hotels have. Here they were able to enjoy a delectable menu and hear about the Avani difference and their latest openings in Adelaide, Broadbeach and Auckland.

Australia’s love affair with Greece came to the fore this week in Sydney as Azamara hosted around 60 top sellers and media to a White Night celebration at Beta Bar on Wednesday. The “AzAmazing Evening” was a carbon-copy of what guests cruising with Azamara can expect when travelling with the luxury cruise line. Regardless of the country, on every sailing Azamara takes guests on an AzAmazing Evening that reflects the culture and the style of the nation they are in. It’s the pillars of the business – connecting people to people, people to culture and people to themselves.