| Journal: TWUK | Section: |
| Title: | Issue Date: 26/06/00 |
| Author: | Page Number: 21 |
| Copyright: Other |
Eastern europe
Mastertours offers agents 12% commission on package deals
Report by DIANESMITH
Mastertours, a new Eastern Europe specialist, is offering agents 12% commission on package holidays in its 2000/2001 brochure.The programme includes Transylvania, Poland and the Crimea. City breaks, rail and coach tours and cruises are available, as well as cultural and themed breaks.
Agents will be paid 10% commission on tailor-made, accommodation-only and flight-only bookings.
The programme has been put together by staff from Fregata, the Eastern European specialist which ceased trading in January. A flat market led owners National Express to close the company down.
Product manager Jeremy Anderson, a former product manager for Fregata, said 30,000 brochures were being produced and initially five to ten thousand would be distributed to independent agents.
Mastertours, using a similar programme to Fregata, has been launched as a division of Commodore International Travel.
Anderson said it is still trying to buy back the Fregata name from National Express to use for direct sales to the Polish community in the UK. He said: “We don’t want to simply let it die.”
Operations supervisor Tim Campbell said: “We are looking at product development. We are keeping the basic product and expanding a little bit at a time.”
He added that a new trans-Mongolian railway package is also now available as is the Crimea. Mastertours is also the only company to feature twin-centre packages to Prague and Crakow.