Kirker Holidays

And then I felt like I wanted something big, something bigger.

And then when I was like 28, I changed to Kuoni.

Kuoni still exists.

It's a very large tour operator because I wanted to do round trips.

I wanted to accompany tours.

I am, uh, very happy to be here with Europe Incoming.

I have started with the company since January this year, but I have forty-five years of experience in the background, uh, mainly working with two big companies, twenty years with the Kuoni Group and twenty years with JTBD Group, and now I'm here.

Kind of a, kind a retired person who wants to continue to be dynamic and try to help the travel industry to grow and be among people where is the best place to be.

So thank you for hosting me, and I'm happy to be with you guys.

Audley Travel have announced recently that they're looking to do a retail partnership with John Lewis.

Um, obviously famously, uh, n- uh, partnered with Kuoni before, so that's a, a new retail partnership.

Yesterday I think the news broke about, uh, Imagine Travel, Imagine Cruising partnering with Travelbag, um, so another retail move there, which is an interesting one, and I think a lot of businesses will be thinking about retail, high street, and, and that as a route to expand.

And then from an airline and on a tour op perspective, uh, Jet2 have announced quite a lot of new routes and it's, and are expanding its summer program.