British Heritage Tours, the UK based tour specialist announced a very exciting new partnership with TravelMole today. 

So, why is this so exciting?   

In recent months, TravelMole has reported on Qantas’ and other carriers’ commission cuts who are following global trends, seeking to reduce the cost of distribution through travel agents and everyone telling agents they have to charge fees for their services. 

Surprisingly BHT has been saying this for a long time, having developed a very significant British tour business in the USA as a result, through providing agents with a very extensive and comprehensive tour programme that the agent can package and sell to special interest, other groups and a wide range of associations. 

BHT is now providing a serious opportunity for travel agents in Australia and New Zealand to make up for that lost income by generating groups to Britain from their own locality – this has been working very successfully from the USA to Britain for many years. 

BHT Managing Director Paull Tickner describes the programme today as, “a welcome to a new and inspired way of looking at your old friend Britain”. 

His company British Heritage Tours, while based in the UK and only an email away, brings nearly 30 years experience to creating tailor made programmes (no set departures) which enable groups of 6 or more to –  

Enjoy travelling less;

See more;

Enjoy 3/4 nights in one location;

Stay in stylishly refurbished, atmospheric, authentic 17^th century coaching inns, reliable 3-4 star properties, and country house hotels in perfect settings; and

Take part in out of hours, behind the scenes, value added visits which make the trip YOU have helped design for your clients truly memorable. 

The really good news is that BHT says – WE WORK ONLY WITH THE TRAVEL TRADE! 

TravelMole will be presenting eNewswire specials from Paull every month giving really useful tips and ideas for agents to attract more business and more revenue. 

Over the coming months, Paull will be providing regular tips and offering ideas and updates on travel to Britain, in addition to providing tips for attracting more business is: – 

Some niche markets or untapped sources are right ON YOUR DOORSTEP for you to consider with an interest in –  

Gardens and Stately Homes

Target audience

Specialist garden societies for orchids, roses, dahlias, camellias, rhododendrons; friends of botanic gardens and arboreta; flower arranging societies; landscape gardeners and their or your client base and National Trust Associations. 

Events

The Cornwall Garden Festival (March and April); The Chelsea Flower Show (May); The Hampton Court Flower Show (July); The Malvern Autumn Show (September) and there are many more.

Products

Head Gardener and owner led tours of both large and privately owned properties in the Cotswolds, in undiscovered Somerset, Dorset and the New Forest, and in Cambridge, Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex. 

Literary on Location Britain

Target audience

Television stations looking for fundraisers; families; reading circles; libraries working with bookstores.

Events 

The Bath Literary Festival (February and March); The Hay on Wye (the writers) Festival (May); The Dickens Festival (June); Inspector Morse and the Agatha Christie Week (September); The Cheltenham Literary Festival (October); The James Herriot Conference (November); The Dickens Christmas Festival (December).

Products

Fiction into fact on location, literary shrine tours focussing on Jane Austen’s ‘Sense and Sensibility’, to James Herriot, The Royal, Heartbeat and Last of the Summer Wine; for families there’s a ‘Ratty, Mole, Mr Toad, Harry & Alice, Winnie the Pooh and the Tailor of Gloucester’ childrens’ literature tour. 

Christian Heritage

Target audience

Back to your roots Anglican, Methodist, Presbyterian and Mormon choirs and congregations/churches and historic groups and National Trust Associations.

Events

Various choir festivals from May to October and in 2007, the Tercentenary of Charles Wesley.

Products

A range of ABC (Another Beautiful Cathedral) suggestions linking the cities of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester; Hereford, Worcester and Gloucester; a Chaucer’s Pilgrims Trail from Southwark (London) to Rochester and Canterbury; a Magnificent Seven comprising the cathedrals in St Albans, Peterborough (Kings College Cambridge), Ely, Norwich, Bury St Edmunds, Chelmsford and St Paul’s, London. 

The Performing Arts

Target audience

Theatres looking for fund raisers, drama colleges, amateur operatic societies, professors of English literature.

Events

The Gilbert and Sullivan Festival (August) and ‘The Complete Works’ being staged by the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford upon Avon between April 2006 and April 2007.

Products

A Gilbert and Sullivan package and in Stratford, Shakespeare up Close, Shakespeare in the Elizabethan Age and Glorious Gardens in Shakespeare Country. 

And Finally, Pub Tours

Target audience

Those who like the idea of staying in genuine 17^th century coaching inns, gastro-pubs, real ales and rubbing shoulders with the locals. 

Events

Any excuse will do.

Products

After a beer or two, we’ll make it fit whatever you like! 

BRITISH HERITAGE TOURS, PUTTING EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND EXCITEMENT INTO PRODUCT G.B. 

About Paull Tickner 

After 10 years in hotels, he created British Heritage Tours in 1976. The company has become one of Britain’s most inventive and best informed experts in tailor made UK special interest tours. He is a former Chairman of UK Inbound (BITOA) and a fellow of the Tourism Society. 

So how do you contact Paull and British Heritage Tours?  

Click on this link, http://www.bhtours.co.uk/newuser.asp  go to the new user section of the BHT site and request your global log in details. 

Your global user name and password will be sent to you very shortly afterwards and you will begin receiving exciting selling Britain information, ideas and offers from Paull.  

When you access the BHT site, please note that prices are currently in $US, but Paull is working on this, tied into his launch in Australia, but he will quote you in $A. 

Don’t forget Paull will also be providing his updates and tips how to sell more Britain and make more money every month on TravelMole. 

Special Report by The Mole