Luxury Gold has introduced six destinations and nine itineraries for 2018.
Luxury Gold, owned by The Travel Corporation which also operates Insight Vacations, is also offering agents who make a booking from its 2018 Worldwide Luxury Escorted Journeys programme the chance to win a Gold iPhone 8.
The brochure features the new destinations of Japan; Costa Rica; South Africa; Montenegro; Croatia and Scandinavia.
Its nine additional itineraries, four of which are in new destinations, are: British Royale; French Vogue; French Impressions; Inspiring New Zealand; Indulgence in Costa Rica; Spectacular South Africa; Captivating Croatia and Montenegro and Timeless Scandinavia.
The 11-day Majestic Japan trip offers travel on the luxury bullet train between cities and rural areas as well as a VIP performance by a samurai warrior in front of Aoba Castle; the chance to meet a survivor of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb; and take part in a private sushi-making class in Tokyo. The trip starts at £5,558, with departures from April 2018.
Also new in the brochure are a series of Chairman’s Collection departures, put together by Stanley Tollman, chairman of parent company The Travel Corporation. These include lunch with an Italian count at his Tuscan villa; a drinks reception at Artstetten Castle with Princess Anita von Hohenberg, a direct descendent of archduke Franz Ferdinand; and dinner with a French Count at Paris’ oldest café.
To celebrate the programme’s launch agents who make a booking between November 2 and December 15, 2017, will automatically be entered into a draw to win a Gold finish iPhone 8. The winner will be announced on December 16.
Discounts of 10% per person are available for bookings made and paid in full before November 30, 2017, for north and south America itineraries and by January 26, 2018, for all other trips.