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Central Holidays has announced an agreement with Ensemble Travel Group that makes Central Holidays one of the consortium’s preferred suppliers. As a preferred supplier, Central Holidays will offer the group’s members training opportunities, bonuses and incentives, and marketing tools that will help them boost their earnings with Central Holidays’ wide range of travel opportunities to Italy, Greece, France, Spain, Portugal, Cyprus, Turkey and Egypt – including customized travel for individuals and groups, independent packages (FIT), fly/drive programs, cruises, ski vacations, car rentals, and meeting and incentive services.
“We are honored to be selected as a preferred supplier by Ensemble Travel Group,” said Fred Berardo, President and CEO of Central Holidays. “The international organization has a robust network of more than 850 member agencies in the U.S. and Canada, as well as a proven brand with a time-honored history of more than four decades strong. We look forward to providing their members, many who specialize in high-end and luxury-focused travel, with niche destination expertise and meticulously planned itineraries as well as superior service, support, and the ideal options to fulfill their clients’ travel needs.”
“This new relationship with the Central Holidays Travel Group family of companies enables our members to offer their clients a greater range of travel programs and destination specialization – including highly customized FIT itineraries throughout Italy, Greece and the Mediterranean. Additionally, with the exclusive rights to the 2015 Passion Play in Italy, Central Holidays presents our agents with the opportunity to benefit from the ever-growing spiritual travel group niche,” said Suzanne Hall, senior director, marketing and development/land products, Ensemble Travel Group.
As part of an alliance with the town of Sordevolo in Italy, Central Holidays has been named the key tour operator partner for upcoming events in 2015 of the acclaimed Passion Play in Italy that will be performed four times a week from June through September. Similar in tradition to the Oberammergau Passion Play of Germany, Sordevolo’s La Passione Di Cristo is a re-enactment of the Passion of the Christ that has taken place in this small town every five years since the beginning of the 18th Century. This Passion Play experience is further enhanced by its location in Italy, offering the opportunity for individual travelers or religious groups to combine their time in Sordevolo with visits to other cities – such as Rome, Florence, Venice – and enjoy the places they’re longing to discover throughout the blossoming Piedmont region and beyond.
New for 2012, Central Holidays’ destination specialists have created even more opportunities for travel agents to present the ideal vacation experiences across Italy, Greece, Europe and the Mediterranean – tailored to their travelers’ preferences. In Italy, agents can send their travelers to explore and enjoy in the signature Central Holidays way… from the most popular cities of Rome, Florence and Venice to the Italian Riviera and the Amalfi Coast, the company’s FIT and enhanced Leisure packages invite travelers to pick and choose, mix and match, and custom-create their desired combination of cities and towns for a complete dream trip. In Greece, travelers can enjoy new “Hop & Stop” island hopping programs – exclusively offered by Central Holidays – that offer added flexibility for travelers delve into the mysteries of Greece and the Greek Islands…from time-honored favorites islands to some of the area’s lesser known gems. In France, Spain, Portugal and beyond the FIT opportunities abound – from the company’s “Discover” packages; and stays in villas and castles; and food & wine packages, featuring cooking classes with acclaimed chefs.
With Central Holidays agents enjoy the reliability and security of booking and having their clients travel with a strong, long-established, robust tour operator to Europe and the Mediterranean with a time-honored history as well as an ongoing commitment to providing the best quality travel programs and unparalleled client service. The Central Holidays team of destination specialists works hand-in-hand with agents to customize a program ideal for their clients – individuals, friends and family traveling together, or groups – to deliver the vacation of their dreams each and every time.
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