Chris Hall has been confirmed as the Managing Director for the Globus Family of Brands’ Asia Pacific offices, effective March 31.

The launch of a new consumer and trade integrated marketing campaign from Avalon Waterways aims to grow brand awareness and reignite its messaging amid a resurgent river cruise sector.

Globus has made a bold play at the intimately sized group touring trend, introducing more than 50 new Small Group Discovery tours, while making many of its legacy core trips available on a trimmed back capacity.

Globus family of brands has launched its latest trade campaign, inviting agents to follow along with its ‘Globus Geni-us’, designed to help advisors have a magical selling season.

Globus family of brands is evolving its masthead touring arm, launching a new FIT sub-brand for Globus, at the same time confirming the phase-out of the Monograms brand from its stable.

The Globus family of brands – consisting of Avalon Waterways and land-based specialists Globus, Cosmos and Monograms – has extend its pre-trip Health & Safety Protocols, including requiring proof of full COVID-19 vaccination to join any holiday in its portfolio, for travel through March 2022.

As part of the brands’ digital transformation, global escorted tour company, Globus family of brands (GFOB) has unveiled its newly redesigned travel agent portal. The portal has been created to make booking customers on a Globus, Cosmos, Monograms or Avalon Waterways holiday, easier than ever.

Globus family of brands has launched a new incentive, offering travel advisors the chance to secure a holiday for themselves when booking (and depositing) eight Globus, Cosmos or Monograms itineraries for their clients.

Avalon Waterways has released one of its best ever sales for Australian travellers, offering savings of up to $6,800* per couple for bookings made by 30 May, 2019 on select 2020 Europe river cruises.

Avalon Waterways will introduce a new program in 2020 that enables guests to customise holidays by pairing a European river cruise with an itinerary of sister companies, Monograms and Globus. Dubbed “Your Way”, the  program is designed to make it easier than ever before for cruisers to customise their holiday, from start to finish.

One year from now, Club Med will be unveiling its first resort in South Africa: Club Med South Africa Beach & Safari. Located on the Dolphin Coast, north of Durban, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, the all-inclusive resort will combine a beach getaway with an immersive safari.