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Ebookers.com, the online travel expert, has announced the launch of its affiliate programme for travel agents – ‘ebookers for agents’. The new service will initially be rolled out in the UK, with the rest of Europe to follow later this year. The scheme will provide travel agents who choose to sign up with access to ebookers’ network of car hire products, hotel reservations, package deals and flight bookings.
Ebookers’ B2B vice president, Gilles Despas, said the new service would benefit both travel agents and their customers. Travel agents will be given complete access to the deals sourced by the ebookers global [...]

A spokesman for the debt burdened University of Cumbria has said that the £800,000 it spent on taxis and hire cars over an 18-month period is not exceptional. Figures released by the University show that in the period ending in December last year, hire cars had cost the institution around £300,000, with taxi fares making up an additional £470,000.
The [...]

According to TUI Travel, last year’s trend for ‘staycations’ is over and holidaymakers are now keen to get away to foreign climes in order to soak up a bit of summer sun. TUI, which owns First Choice and Thomson Holidays, said that a bounce back to normal behaviour was illustrated by an increase this year in holiday bookings from the UK. Between the middle of March and the beginning of May, TUI claim that bookings were up by five per cent.
Although there is still a lack of confidence in economic recovery, Peter Long, TUI’s chief executive, said that there was strong [...]

Ebookers.com, one of the world’s leading online travel companies, today announced the British launch of its new agent program.
The affiliate program, dubbed ‘ebookers for agents’, will see UK travel agents provided with complete access to the range of products and services featured with ebookers. These include flight, hotel, car rental and package products which external agents will then be able to re-sell onto the consumer, offering British travel agents the opportunity to generate commissions.
Following the initial UK launch, the ‘ebookers for agents’ scheme will be introduced across all of the European websites managed by the group, with completion set for [...]

The University of Cumbria today released figures that showed an 18-month bill for £800,000 on hire cars and taxis. The institution was quick to defend its spending, as the university is presently in debt by around £30 million.
According to a university spokesperson, the figures were nothing exceptional. She added that the money was primarily spent on placements for trainee teachers. The university did acknowledge that it was aware of the inflated costs involved in using hire cars for transporting its students, but also said that staff at the university had been working tirelessly together in an effort to lower its bills.
The bill [...]