Monarch signs deal with Tourico
Monarch has signed a distribution deal with Tourico to ‘significantly expand’ its range of European beach holidays and city breaks.
It will use Tourico’s worldwide inventory of hotels and exclusive deals, or pre-purchased hotel room blocks.
"By partnering with Tourico, we’re able to offer our customers a broad range of holiday options to any of the destinations that Monarch serves," said Richard Francis, managing director of Monarch Holidays.
"Tourico’s unique contracting methodology of pre-purchasing large hotel room blocks allows them to secure industry-leading prices that we can now pass on to our customers."
Now part of HotelBeds, Tourico contracts more than 80,000 hotels in 6,598 cities and specializes in brokering rooms to airline suppliers and tour operators.
Neil Emerson, president of business development in Europe for Tourico Holidays, said" "Tourico has made it a priority over the past several years to increase the number of pre-purchased room blocks in popular European cities such as Barcelona, Lisbon, Rome, Venice, and Stockholm.
"Monarch’s travellers will now have access to this unique hotel inventory, allowing them to save significantly on their hotel reservations – in addition to their flights."
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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