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LateRooms.com and Gay Star News have announced their official partnership for Pride 2015. As part of the partnership, the online hotel booking site is set to feature at each of the four UK Pride weekends and intends to work with Gay Star News to raise both brand profiles.

Managing director of The Advantage Travel Partnership, Julia Lo Bue-Said, unveiled the group?s five-year vision plans at Advantages weekend conference in Bodrum, Turkey. 

Helen Johnson and Philippa Wilcox from Polka Dot Travel offered agents an insight into how they have managed to grow their High Street travel agencies from one to three branches in a short space of time at the recent Advantage conference in Bodrum, Turkey, with the key point being to acquire as many clean bookings as possible.

Sandals, Beaches and Grand Pineapple Beach Resorts have announced that their 241 sale, which offers discounts on a variety of room categories, including Club Level and Butler Elite Service Suites, for travel dates throughout 2015 and 2016, is now available for bookings made by May 26.

Fidenza Village, a luxury shopping tourism destination near Milan, is offering guests to EXPO 2015 (which runs until October 31) a unique shopping experience including a combination of Italian art, fashion, gastronomy and design.

Exodus is offering new wildlife encounters for 2015/16, including a trip in search of Papua New Guinea?s birds of paradise, a chance to accompany scientists researching whale sharks in the Sea of Cortez and a specialist photography trip to the Svalbard Archipelago.The wildlife trips are designed to support conservation whilst exploring new frontiers in the company of experts.

MSC Cruises is giving travel agents more flexibility when selling its product by introducing ?options? across all itineraries.

Travel delegates from the Advantage conference flying back from Bodrum on todays Pegasus flight PC5121 have been diverted to Izmir airport in Turkey following an in-flight emergency.