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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.



Toundra Voyages lance un challenge de vente pour le Québec


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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.



Scanditours lance un nouveau challenge de ventes en 2025


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Dua Lipa, Katy Perry… Travel Explorer Gives Away VIP Box Seats

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Travel Explorer launches an unprecedented challenge for travel agents through a sales contest that will run until April 19, 2025.

On the line: to become one of the Travel Explorer ambassadors and win privileged access to VIP lounges for two at the LDLC Arena in Lyon.

On the agenda: Dua Lipa, Gad Elmaleh, Kylie Minogue, Katy Perry or Jamiroquai… The cherry on top: Travel Explorer covers your travel and your accommodation. Zero stress, just pleasure!

By participating, travel agents will be able to join the future Travel Explorer Ambassador program. They will also have the possibility to become one of the members of the Travel Explorer Galaxy.

This program will reward the most engaged agents. The endorsed members will enjoy particular recognition, even more exclusive benefits and a role as a reference within the galaxy.

Also read : Voyamar, Héliades : Travel Explorer, the “little revolution” for the “à la carte”


All you need to know about the Travel Explorer challenge

– Who can participate? All travel agents who complete at least one sale via Travel Explorer from today through April 19, 2025.

– How does it work? Each sale counts, and every new file you record gives you another chance to win… and to choose your show! Participating then allows you to join the Travel Explorer Ambassadors program. At the end of the challenge, a draw will determine the winners. Sign up on Challenge Travel Explorer – Travel Explorer to participate in the draw.

– Why participate? To join a dynamic community, benefit from a powerful tool and perhaps win a unique experience.

– Concert dates :

Dua Lipa – May 16

Gad Elmaleh – May 20

Kylie Minogue – July 10

Katy Perry – November 7

Jamiroquai – November 8

Also read: Travel Explorer: Marietton and Orchestra create a joint venture

Sales Challenge: Asia Launches Australia Challenge

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Challenge de ventes : Asia lance le Défi Australie - Depositphotos.com Auteur tupungato

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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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Back-to-School Challenge: Kuoni Rewards Travel Agencies

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Pour ce challenge de ventes de rentrée, les lots sont plus importants que ceux de l'année précédente - Image : Kuoni France

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The Kuoni France Group is launching in September a commercial incentive campaign aimed at its network of partner agencies.

The initiative covers all the group’s brands – Kuoni, Scanditours, Celtictours and Donatello – and aims to stimulate sales during a strategic back-to-school period.

The principle is simple: for each file reserved via the professional platform pro.kuoni.fr, a gift voucher of €80 is awarded. Sales made through the booking service, on the other hand, entitle a voucher of €60.


Kuoni Back-to-School Challenge: trips for the top performers

Beyond these individual rewards, the challenge also envisages collective recognition.

The three agencies with the highest number of bookings between September 1 and 30, 2025 will be distinguished with larger prizes in the form of trips:

– First prize: a five-night stay for two at the five-star Ananea Madivaru hotel in the Maldives, half-board, with flights and seaplane transfers included (excluding school holidays) ;

– Second prize: a seven-night cruise in Egypt for two, with flights included (excluding school holidays) ;

– Third prize: a three-night stay in Lapland for two, with flights included (excluding school holidays).

Participating agencies must declare their sales no later than October 4, 2025 on the pro.kuoni.fr platform.

Read also: Kuoni celebrates its “beautiful year 2024”

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.

Travel Explorer Motivates Agencies with a Sales Challenge

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