These Spanish, Canarian and Greek hotels and apartments are very popular and can only become more so as the £ to € rates improve.

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Good recession-beating prices (some with Early Booking Discounts) and locations close to beaches and other attractions, make these properties very popular with our customers.

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First Choice and latterly TUI via their merger, have been focused on differentiation for nearly 10 years via their Holiday Villages, Sensatori and Thomson Gold brands. In doing so they have developed a higher price, higher margin proposition that is in demand and can only be purchased from them. Thomas Cook clearly has a lot of ground to catch up, but given their determination and new financial backing will make rapid progress.

So who is going to fill the “Commodity Gap”?
The birth of Flight Plus ATOL, may also signal the age of “Travel Agent Packages” (TAP’s). For many years we have seen the rapid growth of Online Travel Agents using Dynamic Packaging technology, but high street agents have been slower to adapt. However, as the majors shrink their capacities to focus on differentiated product, they will need less third party agency distribution, which may force evolution.

It is clear that independent agents have a gap to fill and the new Hays Travel packaging site is unlikely to be the only attempt to fill this space. However, it is likely most agents will use their own Flight Plus ATOL to package holidays using low cost carriers and bed banks like On Holiday Group’s “Holiday Brokers” brand.
The key driver of the “commodity” holiday market is the flight capacity on leisure routes provided by low cost carriers. This summer season has demonstrated that for every seat the traditional tour operators take out, the low cost carriers appear to be adding two!

Years ago, on joining MyTravel from Ryanair, Tim Jeans sat me down and explained how he could fly three Paris routes in the ten hours it took a charter flight to fly to and from Tenerife, creating 20% more revenue. However, as the recession has hit demand for city flights, the reverse argument has set in, with Low Cost Carriers switching aircraft to the Canaries in order to only have to fill one seat, instead of 3 to make the same revenue.

Although Low Cost Carriers would prefer to run their own direct sale tour operations e.g. Easyjet holidays, these have not enjoyed the massive success they expected. Similarly, although Ryanair may not like agents using their flights to package, it is virtually impossible for them to stop it and one day they may even wake up to the benefits.

The “Commodity Gap” is likely to be filled by the rapid expansion of online companies like On The Beach and Travel Republic. However, the advent of Flight Plus ATOL’s should give high street agents and homeworkers the confidence to build their own ATOL bonded holidays to fill the “Commodity Gap” created by the withdrawal of the major tour operators, so don’t write them off just yet.

This article was taken from Steve Endacott’s Blog

Who needs a downpour in a drought? Well you won’t find many tour operators or bed banks complaining as the recent weather has caused sales to sore by 40% year on year.

For once the weather gods have smiled on the industry with the perfect combination of sunshine while families where at work or school, followed by a wet Easter and a constant barrage of grey skies and pouring rain ever since. Even I’m sitting here planning a trip to get away from it!

More importantly however, is the impact it may have on the peak summer school holiday period. Although the Government may be pushing the “Staycation”, customers want relaxing sunshine as part of their holiday and the recent weather has rammed home how unreliable the UK weather is, which is likely to have strengthened demand for overseas holidays.

Another more obscure factor going in the industries favour is the lack of an England football manager! We are only 6 weeks away from England’s opening game against France on June 11th and have you heard a mention of it? The complete lack of hype this time around is a marked contrast to previous football tournaments and particularly compared to Euro 2008 in Germany when so many English fans jumped in cars, plans and trains to head out to watch first hand. Many fewer will be travelling to the less inviting Ukraine, so logically the impact on the nations holiday budgets will be less and even in the unlikely event England get to the final it will all be over by the 1st July.

The most difficult part of managing lates yield is getting prices up from the £149 price points that dominate early season to £399 plus required post 22nd July for school holidays. The points above should help early season prices and don’t forget that the Olympics do not start till after the schools have already broken up. Hence although I do expect them to dampen demand neither the Euro’s nor the Olympics will directly impact the crucial month of July when prices need to be wound up quickly.

However, please don’t think I am saying this year’s lates period is going to be easy. It looks like we are in the midst of a double dip recession and the year on year increase in fuel prices, whilst currency hedging has negated an benefit of the strengthening pound, means operators need to get £15 higher late holiday prices even to make the same losses as last year.

They say that every cloud has a “Silver lining” and as we look up at the depressing cloud cover over the next few weeks, think of the job security they may be delivering to some elements of our industry.

This article was taken from Steve Endacott’s Blog

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