WALLACE Arnold is featuring Thailand and Russia for the first time as part of its January to December 2000 Destination Worldwide long-haul programme.
The coach operator is to run 11 and 12-day trips between Moscow and St Petersburg including visits to the Hermitage Museum, the Summer Palace, Red Square, The Kremlin, Lake Onega and the Isle of Kizhi. The package leads in at £1,249.
Customers travelling to Thailand will experience a 15-day escorted tour visiting Bangkok, the Grand Palace, the floating market, Chiang Mai, the Golden Triangle and hill tribe villages.
The cost of the trip, which includes flights and accommodation, starts at £1,549.
The operator is also including its China and Yangtze river cruise again following its debut in 1999.
The Destination Worldwide brochure will feature seven other new tours in Canada, the US, Australia and New Zealand.
The company says that the new additions to its programme are as a result of the “growing sense of adventurism among long-haul coach holidaymakers”.
Wallace Arnold general manager marketing and development Chris Bligh explained: “Thailand is a natural progression following our successful debut in China which underlined a growing hunger for a more exotic programme. It is also a good geographic fit with out existing product in China and Australasia.”