by Donald Wood
Last updated: 9:45 AM ET, Tue July 9, 2024
WHY IT RATES: It’s never
too early to start preparing for winter travel with Avanti Destinations.—Donald
Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer.
To inspire advisors to sell independent travel throughout
the year and around the globe, particularly during the off-peak season of
October through March, custom FIT tour operator Avanti Destinations has
launched its latest “Go365” campaign focusing on Christmas markets, winter
activities, and wellness experiences in both cold and warm destinations, with a
50-page e-brochure for agents to share with their independent travel clients.
Avanti sells custom-tailored independent vacations
exclusively through travel advisors.
Avanti is also offering a webinar on selling winter season
travel on Thursday, July 25 at 1pm Eastern/10am Pacific. Advisors can also
request pre-printed postcards (on 100% post-consumer waste paper) promoting
winter travel that they can personalize and send to their clients.
28 countries, 35 hotels, 28 experiences around the world
The e-brochure includes suggestions for destinations,
hotels, and add-on experiences in 28 countries, almost half in Europe and the
UK, but many in Central and South America, North Africa, the Middle East, Asia,
and the South Pacific.
Thirty-five hotels, resorts, and unique accommodations are
described, most of them four-star, four-star-plus and five-star properties. The
e-brochure also suggests 28 experiences, activities, and sightseeing tours,
most of them private. Shared, small group, and self-guided activities are also
included.
Advisors can tailor itineraries to match each client’s
preferred destinations, style of accommodation, and activities that match each
client’s interests, timeline, and budget. Advisors can also add activities and
transfers from Avanti’s complete product lineup to any Go365 vacation.
“Off-season is the ideal time to go to Europe and the UK,”
said Gina Bang, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer, “There are fewer tourists, a
less crowded, more relaxed, and a more authentic atmosphere, less waiting in
line for popular attractions, greater availability of private guides, and many
special winter events and activities, like Christmas markets, winter sports,
and the Northern Lights.
“For FIT clients who took their peak season vacation in
Europe and the UK and now want to escape the cold weather during the winter
months, it’s a great time to recommend Southeast Asia, Egypt, Morocco, the
South Pacific, or Central and South America. We first launched Go365 in 2017 to
help advisors get more business all year round, and to encourage travel to
destinations around the world, as well as Europe, and it has always been
enthusiastically received,” added Bang.
Examples of unique add-on experiences
Among the 28 sightseeing tours and activities that can be
added to any custom winter itinerary: Christmas market experiences (many
private) in Germany, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Iceland, England,
Portugal, and Switzerland; private chocolate truffle making workshop in
Edinburgh, Scotland; private snow monkey park tour near Obuse, Japan; small
group fat-tire winter biking tour near Rovaniemi, Finland; small group Northern
Lights tour from Reykjavik, Iceland (free pass for up to two years if the Northern
Lights don’t appear); small group whisky blending class in Dublin, Ireland;
shared beer spa experience – a practice dating back to the Middle Ages - and
massage in Prague, Czech Republic; private tour of medicinal herb market in
Seoul, South Korea; a private tour outside Marrakesh, Morocco, to see the
region’s first organic garden, savor a farm-to-table lunch, learn how to make
Berber bread; and relax with a foot massage; private high tea and spa
experience in Bali, including full-body massage, flower footbath, and views of
a lush river gorge.
For additional information on booking unique experiences and
custom-built, multi-destination FIT travel 365 days a year to Europe, Asia,
North Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South America, log onto the
travel advisor portal https://book.avantidestinations.com or call
1-800-422-5053 to speak with an expert travel specialist.
SOURCE: Avanti
Destinations press release.
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