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Adagio Launches Adagio Business Plus for Long-Term Corporate Stays

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With nearly 45% of its activity generated by corporate clients, Adagio aims to strengthen its position in the long-stay business travel segment.

The Adagio Business + offering targets companies wishing to provide their employees with lodging solutions tailored to trips lasting several days or weeks.

In a context where expectations are evolving toward greater flexibility and expense control, this new commercial proposition highlights a stay framework combining autonomy, comfort and budget clarity.


Flexibility, cost control and loyalty

The Adagio Business + offering rests on several services dedicated to professional travelers:

– flexibility of booking terms with free cancellation up to the day before arrival and early check-in from 1:00 PM ;

– cost optimization with tiered rates for stays longer than 8 nights and a minimum 10% discount on the public rate within the Adagio network in Europe and the United Kingdom ;

– loyalty program with access to ALL – Accor Live Limitless, enabling points and benefits to accumulate at more than 5,500 Accor hotels.

This new offering is deployed in 117 aparthotels of the group in Europe and the United Kingdom.


An experience that blends autonomy with hotel services

Beyond the tariff and contractual advantages, Adagio Business + is built on the fundamentals of the group’s aparthotel experience.

Travelers thus benefit from fully equipped apartments, including a kitchen, workspace and storage areas, offering more space than a standard hotel room.

The residences are located in central sites, close to business activity zones and well served.

The offering also includes redesigned common areas, conceived to foster relaxation and sociability, as well as a set of hotel services: 24/7 reception, breakfast, laundry, dry cleaning, or a gym.

“Adagio Business+ is our new offering dedicated to long-duration professional stays. It combines budget control, the comfort of an apartment and hotel services, with greater flexibility and new services to meet the demands of business travel“, notes Stéphane Ormand, Chief Commercial Officer.


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Domes Resorts Launches Its Sales Challenge

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Domes Resorts unveils an exclusive promotion aimed at travel agents as part of its Early Bird Incentive 2025.

The offer allows travelers to enjoy one complimentary night for two guests in Greece or Portugal for any booking made before March 31, 2025.

By booking before December 6, 2024, agents can even take advantage of a “super bonus” of two free nights. Valid for stays to be realized throughout 2025, this offer comes with specific conditions designed to enhance the partnership with tourism professionals.


A Dedicated Offer for Travel Agents

Domes Resorts presents travel agents with a challenge to encourage them to promote its hotels. Valid for any booking made between November 28, 2024 and March 31, 2025, this offer applies to departures planned for 2025. The minimum requirements include a stay of five nights for most Domes hotels and three nights for properties located in Athens and the Cyclades.

The free nights earned through this initiative can be used at a selection of hotels, notably the Domes Aulus Elounda, the Domes Noruz Chania, or the Domes Lake Algarve, subject to availability and with prior approval from the property.

The stays offered must be completed before the end of December 2026, and travel agents can accumulate up to seven free nights. In case of excess, these nights can be converted into credits (10€/night) usable under certain conditions.


Domes Resorts: Flexible and Exclusive Stays

The free stays included in this offer are exclusively intended for travel agents and non-transferable to third parties. Reservations must be logged by email after the clients return, ensuring a rigorous tracking of the program. Additionally, agents have the opportunity to combine this offer with preferential rates reserved for them, further enhancing the initiative’s value.

Domes Resorts also emphasizes flexibility: in peak-season requests, the property reserves the right to offer alternative dates or hotels. This strategy helps maintain a balance between client needs and availability management.

For any booking or information, travel agents are invited to contact Domes Resorts directly by email at [email protected].



Domes Resorts lance son challenge de ventes


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Toundra Voyages Launches Quebec Sales Challenge

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Toundra Voyages, in partnership with Air Transat and Québec Authentique, presents a sales challenge aimed at travel agents.

The objective? Highlight the Quebec regions of Mauricie and Lanaudière while offering two exclusive getaways to the top participants.

This contest, which will run from January 16 to March 31, 2025, invites members of the group Toundra Entre Pros to finalize their applications to hope to win immersive vacations in Authentic Quebec.


Toundra Voyages Sales Challenge: An Opportunity to Explore the Heart of Quebec

This sales challenge shines a spotlight on the Mauricie and Lanaudière regions, renowned for their natural landscapes and rich heritage. Two major prizes await agents:

  • A six-night stay offered to the agent who sold the greatest number of nights in these regions
  • A draw will award another stay to one of the participants, each confirmed application giving an additional chance to win

The prizes include round-trip flights with Air Transat, accommodations with breakfast, and a car rental. This initiative is reserved for members of the private Facebook group Toundra Entre Pros, dedicated to agents collaborating with Toundra Voyages.


Showcasing Quebec’s Authentic Regions

For several years, Toundra Voyages has been promoting Mauricie and Lanaudière as flagship destinations. This partnership with Air Transat and Québec Authentique enhances the appeal of these territories and offers an immersion in landscapes that blend forests, lakes, and local culture.

This approach also aims to encourage travel agents to propose these authentic experiences to their clients. “Through this challenge, we want to reward agents’ commitment while highlighting the unparalleled assets of Mauricie and Lanaudière,” explain the organizers.

To participate or obtain more details about this contest, agents are invited to join the Toundra Entre Pros group or to contact Toundra Voyages directly.



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Scanditours Launches New 2025 Sales Challenge

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From January 22 to February 28, 2025, Scanditours is offering a new deal to its network of travel agent partners.

By booking for their clients a stay in Lapland from a curated selection of dates and establishments, they will receive a €50 gift card per booking.

This initiative aims to boost sales for the end of the winter season and to thank tourism professionals.


Scanditours launches a targeted campaign for stays in Lapland

Scanditours’ offer covers a range of Lapland stays, lasting 3, 4, or 7 nights, with substantial discounts for clients. Depending on the duration and the type of accommodation chosen, prices include:

  • 3 nights: a discount of €400 per person at hotels outside the Clubs and €600 per person at the Scanditours Pohtimo Club. Departures available on February 6, 13, 27 and March 6.
  • 4 nights: same discount applies, for a single departure on March 16.
  • 7 nights: discount increased to €500 per person for hotels outside the Clubs and to €800 per person for the Pohtimo Club, with departures on February 27, March 2, 6 and 13.

Travel agents must report their sales on Scanditours’ professional platform (pro.kuoni.fr) before March 7, 2025 to receive the rewards.

Each valid booking entitles agents to a €50 gift card. This initiative excludes special sales, national promotions and group bookings. By promoting iconic stays in Lapland, Scanditours aims to strengthen its ties with partners while offering their clients unforgettable winter experiences.

For more information, agents can consult the dedicated platform or contact Maria Barbosa, head of communications at Kuoni France at [email protected]. This offer is part of the travel agent loyalty strategy, while highlighting the advantages of stays in a sought-after destination.



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Sales Challenge: Asia Launches Australia Challenge

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Asia a lancé un grand challenge de ventes dédié à l’Australie.

“Le Défi Australie”, c’est son nom, récompensera les agents de voyages les plus prescripteurs de la destination chez le voyagiste.

Les cinq meilleurs agents ayant effectué des réservations entre le 1er novembre 2024 et le 30 juin 2025 pour des voyages en Australie d’Asia, auront la chance de partir en novembre 2025 à la découverte de l’Ouest australien et de tester le nouveau vol direct de Qantas.

Asia est en effet le premier tour-opérateur à s’être positionné dès l’été 2024 sur le nouveau vol direct de Qantas reliant Paris à Perth ! Le président du tour-opérateur, Guillaume Linton, nous avait d’ailleurs partagé ses impressions lors de l’un des tous premiers vols fin Juillet

Ce trajet en Dreamliner 787, positionné en amorce des jeux Olympiques de Paris, permet pour la première fois dans l’histoire de l’aviation commerciale, de joindre l’Australie en moins de 16 heures depuis Paris !

L’Australie Occidentale, dont Perth est la capitale, état le plus ensoleillé du pays, offre une porte d’entrée idéale pour explorer l’Australie d’ouest en est. Dans cette optique, Asia a intégré pour ses départs 2025 en petits groupes, ce vol Paris/Perth à ses 2 circuits Tentations, avec une nouveauté : La Grande Traversée de l’Australie.


Western Australia, the New Gateway

This long journey of 22 days/19 nights offers a complete immersion down under. Limited to 16 participants, this voyage thus starts in Western Australia, a vast region still relatively unknown to French travelers, yet spectacular in many ways.

On the program: the dynamic yet relaxed city of Perth, the preserved Rottnest Island, a true natural sanctuary famous for its quokkas and its paradise beaches, and the possibility of a side trip to Fremantle, a charming port city renowned for its lively markets and trendy cafés, where street art is found at every corner.

The itinerary continues through the Northern Territory, from the Top End to the Red Centre, weaving between rock-art sites, Aboriginal ceremonial places, billabongs paradise of birdlife, natural waterfalls and ochre canyons, before reaching the reefs of the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree Rainforest around Cairns in Queensland.

The journey also includes exploring the great metropolises of Sydney and Melbourne, the Blue Mountains National Park and the Great Ocean Road, in the southeast of the country. A trip with a French-speaking guide who combines Australia’s finest natural and cultural treasures.

For nearly 40 years of programming, Asia also aims to be the specialist in Australia autodrives (by car, 4×4 and motorhomes), with a whole palette of road or off-road itineraries, for all budgets and assembled to measure by the operator’s team of expert tour planners, all duly certified “Aussie Specialists”.


The most deserving travel agents will be able to discover a preview of these wild landscapes along the western coast!

Cunard Launches Caribbean Sales Challenge

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TAP Air Portugal Launches Its TAP Challenge

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Accor Launches the HERA Challenge for Travel Agents

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Accor announces the launch of the HERA Challenge, an international contest aimed at travel agents who are members of its HERA platform. This initiative seeks to highlight the performance and dedication of industry professionals by offering a tangible reward: a stay in Colombia in March 2026.

The 33 top advisors will be selected based on multiple criteria, including sales volumes, destinations booked, or preferred brands.

This initiative continues the HERA platform, launched a year earlier, which aims to assist travel agents with their hotel bookings via dedicated digital tools.


An Accor competition structured around 11 categories

The HERA Challenge is open exclusively to users of the HERA.Accor.com platform. The 33 winners will be distributed across 11 distinct categories. Three of them will reward the “Champions of Performance” based on either the overall sales revenue generated or the largest single sale completed on the platform. Three other categories will recognize the “Regional Stars” according to performance in the following regions: the Americas; Europe, Africa and Turkey; the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific.

In addition, five “Brand Experts” categories will honor sales made for the Orient Express, Fairmont, Raffles, Sofitel/Sofitel Legend/MGallery, and Ennismore’s lifestyle brands.

Finally, the last category, “Champions of Destinations“, will spotlight the three agents who booked trips to the largest number of different countries. The competition covers all bookings made between November 15, 2024, and November 15, 2025. Winners will be announced in December 2025.


A Colombia experience for the winners

The 33 rewarded agents will undertake a four-day experience, from March 9 to March 12, 2026, spread across two Colombian properties within the group. They will spend one night at the Sofitel Legend Santa Clara Cartagena, located in a 17th-century convent in the heart of Cartagena, and two nights at the Sofitel Barú Calablanca Beach Resort, LEED-certified and situated about 40 minutes by boat from the city.

The program includes meetings with local communities, in line with the group’s commitment to responsible travel. The Barú complex features 187 rooms and suites, several infinity pools, a spa, a gym, and restaurants, including Bahía by the sea and Humo, which blends Asian and Latin American cuisines. According to Pascal Visintainer, “the HERA Challenge is our way of highlighting and rewarding travel agents who bring our brands to life for customers around the world.”


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Qantas Launches Sales Challenge With an Educational Tour in Australia

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Qantas invites travel agents to try to win a spot for an exclusive edu-tour in Australia, by taking part in its new challenge, based on Australia sales achieved between the September 1, 2025 and March 1, 2026.

The applications must include a Qantas flight – QF33/QF34 from Paris or QF1/QF2/QF9/QF10 from London – as well as at least one night in Western Australia and one night in Victoria.

Agents must submit their PNRs or ticket numbers to Qantas France no later than March 2, 2026.

This challenge accompanies the ramp-up of the Paris – Perth route operated three times per week by the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, as well as the Qantas Explorer program enabling access to more than 60 Australian destinations.

Also read: Qantas appoints John Simeone as General Manager of International Sales


Qantas Challenge: Participation Criteria and Finalist Selection

To qualify, participants must register via the dedicated form after their first sale, be certified Aussie Specialist and have completed the Victoria, and the Western Australia modules, as well as those for Melbourne and Perth on the Qantas Learning Hub.

Tourism Australia will verify the eligibility of the predefined profiles based on the sales validated by Qantas.

The eight selected agents will be announced in early March 2026 and will participate in a fam trip combining Melbourne, Victoria, Perth and the Coral Coast, including nature experiences, sightseeing, cruises, snorkeling and the discovery of Australian wildlife.

ITA Airways Launches Marseille–Rome Route and Bets on Its International Hub

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Les équipes d'ITA Airways, de l'aéroport Marseille - Provence aux côtés de Fabio Monaco, le Consul Général d'Italie et Maxime Tommasini, président de la Chambre de commerce italienne pour la France à Marseille pour l'inauguration du vol Marseille - Rome - Photo CE

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ITA Airways continues its development in France. The Italian carrier inaugurated, on June 1, its new daily link between Marseille and Rome-Fiumicino, reinforcing both the offer to Italy and the possibilities of connections to its international network.

 

On this occasion, Fabio Monaco, the Consul General of Italy and Maxime Tommasini, president of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for France in Marseille, were present alongside Samy Addou, Country Manager France of ITA Airways, and representatives of Marseille Provence Airport, to celebrate this first flight.

 

A buffet, cake and goodies awaited the first passengers at boarding. The airline will operate one flight per day during the summer season until 30 September 2026.

 

“The opening of this link by ITA Airways was close to our hearts. Italy is a historic market to which the Marseillais and the Marseille airport are particularly attached. Since its integration into the Lufthansa Group, ITA Airways had become the only group member still absent from our platform, while we already host Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, Swiss, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings. Its arrival thus naturally completes the group’s presence in Marseille.” explains Julien Boullay, Commercial Director of Marseille Provence Airport.


Houston today, Santo Domingo tomorrow


Inauguration par Fabio Monaco, le Consul Général d'Italie et Maxime Tommasini, président de la Chambre de commerce italienne pour la France à Marseille, étaient présents aux côtés de Samy Addou, Country Manager France d'ITA Airways et Julien Boullay directeur commercial de l'aéroport Marseille- Provence - Photo CE

“The major value added by ITA Airways compared to other carriers already serving the Marseille-Rome link lies in its hub-connected connections. Travelers can thus access the entire Italian domestic network, the main European destinations, but also a long-haul network that has been strengthened in recent years. From Rome, it is possible to reach North America, South America, West Africa, Gulf countries, Asia, and even the Indian Ocean.” details Samy Addou.

 

The executive notes that the company launched the Rome-Houston link on May 1 and will continue expanding its network this winter with the opening of a new service to Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic.

 

The Rome-Houston route will move to five weekly frequencies from June to September. In Asia, ITA Airways will also increase its Rome-Bangkok service to five flights per week during August and operate the Rome-Delhi route on a daily basis.

 

In addition to Marseille, ITA Airways is also inaugurating two new seasonal routes to Rome-Fiumicino from Malaga and Valencia.


ITA strengthens its route between Nice and Rome

From France, ITA Airways operates in Paris (CDG and Orly) as well as in Nice, where the airline runs the Rome-Fiumicino service at three flights per day. “We will add a fourth flight starting July 1 and we will maintain our network from Paris, whether CDG or Orly, to Rome-Fiumeino and Milan-Linate.” specifies Samy Addou.

 

This strengthening of the flight schedule comes as the rapprochement between ITA Airways and Lufthansa continues.

 

Deutsche Lufthansa AG announced in mid-May 2026 its intention to raise its stake in ITA Airways from 41% to 90% as early as next June.

 

For the Country Manager France, these are good news: “This allows us to move forward, to develop in a number of aspects, whether it is the network with all the brands of the Lufthansa Group or the addition of new codeshare agreements. We have also joined Star Alliance since April 1, 2026, and that gives us access to more than 1,100 lounges worldwide.”

 

The airline also benefits from the German group’s experience in deploying NDC since May 12. “This support has facilitated the implementation of the project and today enables ITA Airways to position itself on the new standards of air distribution.”

 

With this new link, ITA Airways strengthens its foothold in the French market. Will there be further openings of routes to come? Samy Addou does not wish to say more at the moment: “For the rest of the development, we will keep you informed in due course.”


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