Travel Weekly (UK)

Travel Weekly (UK)
Editor Lucy Huxley
Categories Travel
Frequency Weekly
First issue 1969
Company Travel Weekly Group
Country  United Kingdom
Language British English
Website www.travelweekly.co.uk

Travel Weekly is a business magazine and online information service for the UK travel industry.

It provides news, analysis and destination articles for travel agents, tour operators and tourism employees about the UK outbound and domestic holiday and travel markets.

The weekly A4-sized magazine has an audited circulation of 14,785[1] and is published on Thursday.

In 2011, Travel Weekly was shortlisted for two PPA Awards: weekly magazine of the year and editor of the year (business media).[2] Lucy Huxley is editor-in-chief.

Travel Weekly brands

Sister publications include Travolution, a quarterly magazine and online service for the digital travel sector, and Aspire, a quarterly publication and travel agents' club for the luxury travel market. Travel Weekly Business is an information service and forum organiser for senior industry executives.

Gazetteers.com is an exclusive subscription-based information and advice site solely for travel agents. It provides unbiased reviews of hotels and tourism facilities in more than 230 countries.

Travel Weekly also operates almost 100 online destination training courses in partnership with Travel Uni.

Events

History

Travel Weekly was first published in 1969 as Travel News. It is owned by Travel Weekly Group, whose founder and chairman, Clive Jacobs, acquired it from Reed Business Information in 2009. It has a close association with Caterer and Hotelkeeper, which is also majority-owned by Jacobs and based at the same address.

Travel Weekly has a team of about 50 and is based in Victoria, London, UK.

Competitors

Travel Weekly’s main competitors are Abta Magazine, e-tid.com, Selling Long Haul, Travel Bulletin, TravelMole and Travel Trade Gazette.

An unconnected title of the same name, Travel Weekly, is published in the US by Northstar Media, part of Wicks Group.

References

  1. ↑ "ABC (Audit Bureau of Circulations)". Year to June 30, 2012. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ↑ "Consumer PPA Awards 2011: Shortlisted entries revealed". Progressive Media International. Press Gazette. 18 April 2011. Retrieved 11 August 2014.

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