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.
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.
Among the 28 sightseeing tours and activities that can be added to any custom winter itinerary: Christmas
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