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With easing of restrictions, Thomas Cook India and its group company, SOTC Travel, have announced the first physical holiday roadshows since lockdown – Thomas Cook India’s Freedom Month Celebrations and SOTC’s Freedom Month Carnival. The series of roadshows, in association with Accor and Marriott hotels, will be held on Sunday, November 8, 2020 from 11am to 5pm across key source markets of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Pune, Kochi, Jaipur and Baroda. With a range of domestic and international destinations on offer, customers can avail of special deals/discounts and attractively priced flight-inclusive holidays starting at Rs. 10 790.00* – with a free holiday to Dubai* to be won. To ensure customer health and safety together with a personalised experience, an online pre-registration enables customers to book their preferred time slot. Rajeev Kale, President & Country Head – Holidays, MICE, Visa, Thomas Cook (India). said, “To assist our customers plan their perfect holiday and guide them through the new/updated travel protocols, we have simplified the booking process by bringing our Freedom Month Celebrations right to our customers’ doorstep! Held at Accor and Marriott hotels across India, we intended to provide Indians with a safe and smooth holiday booking experience and the assistance of our holiday experts, while availing of great offers.” He added, “Our Assured Program in partnership with Apollo Clinics ensures meticulous health & safety protocols. To further assist our customers, we have tied up with ICMR accredited labs to offer end-to-end COVID-negative certification services with contactless facilitation – across India. Our Safe Holiday Helpline is yet another meaningful consumer initiative – a free service to support customers in safe holiday planning.”

Mou Mukherjee, one of the PSAs for Thomas Cook India located in Dhanbad, shares her experience of being part of the Thomas Cook India family. She says, “After the setback caused due to the pandemic, I’m very happy to say that we have been able to bounce back to business. The ‘Assured’ programme has been a great initiative by Thomas Cook India to help agents like is win back the confidence of our customers, who are also happy with the on-ground services that was provided to them. Times are tricky but with the opportunities that Thomas Cook India has provided us through several of their online roadshows for the Thomas Cook Assured initiative, I am positive that we will be able to generate business and provide our customers complete satisfaction while promoting safe travel.”

With an established background in B2B travel, TBO Group has diversified into cargo business with its first office in New Delhi operational since October 17. Ankush Nijhawan, Co-Founder, TBO Group, said they want to change the way cargo business is done in India, with different ideas, better technology and make the industry more organised. The Group plans to expand to western India in the next 6 months followed by footprints in South India as well. The company will act as a facilitator for agents to get the best prices for shipping cargo via airlines for now, and later plans to get into ocean cargo as well.

Upendra Kumar from International Travels in Patna, has been using Tripjack’s website for his agency bookings since the last two years. Sharing his experience, Kumar says, “Before that, I would use other B2B portals for my bookings. But the service provided by Tripjack is very good and I have never looked back since using them. Their website is very user-friendly and their flight and hotel fares are very competitive. I keep referring them to all my travel agent friends. Even their recent Fantasy League contest that I have participated in, lets you play as well as earn Tripjack coins at the same time. I won the first prize of 15,000 Tripjack coins for the match played between Mumbai v/s Rajasthan.” Top winners get air tickets sponsored by AirAsia and hotels stays every week. Visit tripjack.com now!

B2B hotel booking portal, GRN Connect has won the prestigious TravTalk-WTM World Travel Leaders Award for having a positive impact on tourism and hospitality industry in India. The B2B operator with access to around 400,000 hotels and 200,000 villas and more than 30,000 on- and -offline agents in 108 countries access its inventory was announced winner during a virtual ceremony where businesses were nominated by WTM Official Media Partners. Getting recognised for embracing the mantra- recover, rebuild & innovate, Deepak Narula, Managing Director, GRNConnect said, “Our business ground to a halt at the peak of the pandemic, and we quickly started to rebuild our business for the future by identifying areas where we could make a difference to our suppliers and partners.”

Eyeing the pent-up demand for travel, Thomas Cook (India) and its group company, SOTC Travel have introduced Crazy Deals in partnership with IndiGo with a range of options and value add-ons. On offer are domestic destinations such as Goa, Udaipur, Jaipur, Kerala, Himachal, North East, Ranthambore, Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Chittorgarh, Andaman, among others, and international short haul destinations such as Dubai and Maldives.   Rajeev Kale, President & Country Head – Holidays, MICE, Visa, Thomas Cook (India) said, “These great-value air-inclusive holidays are easy to book. With our pricing and inclusions, we aim to catalyse demand across India. Our Assured Program in partnership with Apollo Clinics ensures meticulous health and safety protocols across every touch-point and to further assist our customers, we have tied up with ICMR accredited labs to offer seamless, contactless end-to-end COVID-negative certification services – across India. Our Safe Holiday Helpline is yet another meaningful consumer initiative – a free service to support customers in safe holiday planning.”   Daniel D’souza, President & Country Head, Leisure, SOTC Travel said, “While Indian travellers are price conscious, they also seek value in their holiday package. SOTC has launched Crazy Deals in partnership with IndiGo. Travellers with pocket friendly budgets can now avail the best deals that offer air-inclusive value packages to domestic and international destinations. As customers recognise the value and peace of mind of booking with reputed brands, we have introduced a range of assured, insured holidays in line with our Safe Travel programme.”   Sanjay Kumar, Chief Strategy & Revenue Officer, IndiGo said, “We are pleased to partner with Thomas Cook India and SOTC to introduce air inclusive holiday deals. We also introduced products like 6E double seat, …

Learn about new business opportunities with Thomas Cook India in a webinar today at 3pm where Romil Pant, Senior VP – Holidays, Thomas Cook India, will take participants through its ‘Assured’ Program, and unique domestic products and services. Participants will also receive vouchers worth Rs 2,000. To sign up, contact Jaspreet Kaur at jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or 9650196532.

One Above has acquired a DMC in the Mediterranean destination of Greece called Orama Travel, which means ‘travel with a vision’ in Greek. Now called One Above Greece, the new office starts operations from its new location in Athens. Speaking on this occasion Rahim Aslam, Founder, One Above, says, “One Above Greece promises the visitor diverse experiences beyond the stereotypical sea and sun holiday usually associated with Greece. Yes, Greece is incredible for offering riveting summer holidays but there is more to Greece than this. Consider a holiday in Greece any other time of year and you will begin to appreciate its diversity and discover a side of it that you didn’t know existed!” He adds that the One Above team specialises in offering exceptional services to tourists travelling to Greece. “Our expertise and rich experience of 30 years, inspired by the knowledge and the taste of our customers originating from all over the world make us an essential partner for everyone wishing to organise their travel, be it for leisure or business. Over the years, we have learned to respect the traveller, consider the travelling experience with a different outlook, and continually improve all our travel destinations as per the current trends,” he adds. Rahim adds, “One Above Greece will provide the critical knowledge necessary to make all travel arrangements successful. Our reputation for high quality, creative service is based on our ability to help you manage your clients travel arrangements more effectively. It is based on our philosophy of service with an extra measure of value, service that goes above and beyond the typical requirements of a DMC. Our mission is to provide every client with the best …

Hasan Patel, Director of B2B travel portal Tripjack, says, “We conceptualised the Fantasy League to increase our engagement with our travel partners during these times. This innovative concept of the Travel Agent Fantasy League is now in the second phase and the excitement level has doubled. The competition has more than 3,000 winners till date and we are seeing more and more users participate daily. Visit Tripjack.com and start playing now!”

IATO in association with TravTalk is organising a webinar with Art of Living on the topic, ‘Redesign Your Itineraries- Wellness Tourism’ on Thursday, November 5 at 11:30 am. During the session, Rajeev Nambiar, Director, National Teachers Desk, The Art of Living, will be sharing his thoughts on the topic with the audience and inspire them to do better planning. To know more and register, contact Jaspreet Kaur at Jaspreet.kaur@ddppl.com or call 9650196532.