Some of you will know that I write a regular weekly column for the Insider Travel Report and every two weeks for Travel Research Online and it’s a great privilege to be the only UK supplier to contribute these updates to a very large North American travel trade readership.

I’ve highlighted both emagazines in my top two stories as they illustrate the huge amount of UK product knowledge that’s available to you when putting together tailor-made UK and Ireland tours for couples, families and small groups. Add in 39 years of hard-earned operational experience and the huge network of grassroot contacts who help me to deliver them for your customers and you’re onto a winner.

We’re also well known for our fast response time.  If you don’t hear from me within 24 hours, the odds are that your email’s gone walkabout so please resend. An email exchange then sorts out precisely what’s required and once agreed, the costing follows.

Let’s start an email exchange and generate some new UK-bound business.

Britain Insider

Most weeks, you’ll find a Britain Insider column in the daily Insider Travel Report.  This link will take you to no fewer than 69 of them covering a wide range of topics - the 70^th will be out on Thursday.  I don’t expect you to read all of them, but a quick review of the subject headings could fire your imagination.

Agent's Perspectives

Every 2 weeks, another burst of bubble, fizz and pleasant surprises appears in a Friday edition of Travel Research Online.  As with my Britain Insider articles, the focus is almost entirely on bright ideas for OUT OF LONDON travel experiences that I can customise into unique itineraries for clients cruising or flying in or out of the UK.

Custom GB Website

If you’ve not done so recently, check out my website at www.customgb.co.uk , a fascinating showcase for many new ways of looking at your old friend Britain.  Regular supporters are encouraged to follow suit because a closer look could well encourage you to develop more travel less, see more tours customised to meet your client’s interests, time frame and budget

Customised Cruise Extensions

Some of your clients will only want transfers between London and Southampton, Dover and Harwich.  Others will be returnees wanting to get off the beaten track. Let’s talk about your generating more commission by offering 2-3 night programmes based in Bath, the Cotswolds, Stratford upon Avon, Oxford and among the many castles, stately homes and gardens in the south of England.

Best Loved Collection

To illustrate how some of these new perspectives can be worked into imaginatively-themed and moneymaking itineraries, take a look at this travel less, see more collection, based in some of Best Loved Hotel properties in England, Scotland and Wales.  They’re not set departure tours, but each one can be adjusted to suit your client’s interests, time frame and budget.

Girls Getaways

Why not gather together a few of your friends for a Shopping and Foodie Tours to London and Paris, a course at the new 5-star Grand Hotel Cookery School in York coupled with a Shop ‘n’ Ship Trip to the World’s Capital of Ceramics via the Manchester gateway, Antiques Fairs at Ardingly and London Markets or a Cotswolds Tea Room Tour.