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Travel Counsellors celebrated its 25th anniversary from November 15 ? 17 (Friday to Saturday), packing its new Manchester venue with nearly 2,000 travel counsellors, supplier partners and support teams from across the globe.

ABTA has announced 12 destinations to watch for 2020 in its new Travel Trends Report. 

Barcel? Hotel Group has announced a new four-star hotel in Warsaw, its first in Poland, which is set to open in 2021.

Travel 2 has witnessed strong growth in booking numbers with demand for touring holidays seeing a marked increase in the first half of 2019.

Corsican Places has launched its 2020 brochure featuring a wide-ranging collection of holidays with more than 160 accommodation options throughout Corsica. 

Enit, the Italian National Tourism Board, has started a solidarity chain through its 28 foreign branches in support of Venice and Veneto, the area of North Italy strongly affected by bad weather conditions. 

In his closing remarks at the AITO Overseas Conference, AITO chairman Derek Moore proposed the establishment of a think-tank to help the travel industry respond to climate change and present coherent public messages on the issue and help travel industry professionals discuss climate change with customers.

Bookings to Europe have ebbed and flowed "depending on the [Brexit] debate", Karl Watson from Inntravel told delegates at the AITO Overseas Conference. However, he remains "pretty optimistic" about prospects for bookings to Europe.