Exclusive Escapes rival adds more hotels so agents can honour bookings
Turkey specialist Anatolian Sky Holidays has increased its product range so it can take over forward bookings made with Exclusive Escapes, which went bust last week.
Anatolian Sky managing director Akin Koç, said he had contacted Exclusive Escapes MD Andrew Lee to express concern after the company collapsed on Thursday.
He said: "We were so very sorry to hear the news about Exclusive Escapes.
"I have been in touch to offer my sincere sympathies to Andrew Lee and his team during these challenging times. Anatolian Sky Holidays is committed to helping agents and their clients to continue to book their chosen holidays to Turkey with the minimum of disruption.
"To this end, in addition to the properties already featured in our programme, we are also able to make bookings with many of the hotels within the Exclusive Escapes portfolio, including the Kalkan Regency in Kalkan, the Light House in Kas, the Dionysos Hotel in Kumlubuk and the Bademli Ev in Selimiye.
"This means that we are now in a position to enable agents to honour the bookings made for clients who are keen to re-establish their plans for a holiday in Turkey over the coming weeks and months.
"We are also working towards being able to support bookings for many of the private villas, with the aim of ensuring these are available to re-book for the remainder of the year."
Exclusive Escapes had over 1,750 forward bookings and 500 customers in resort when it collapsed, blaming two difficult trading years.
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