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Travel Solutions is Northern Ireland’s leading tour operator, selling a wide range of travel and holiday experiences to customers throughout Ireland – north and south.

The company was established in 1996 and today a team of over thirty qualified travel professionals work hard to create holidays that will exceed our customers’ expectations – time after time, by offering great service, great value and by not compromising on quality or flexibility.

Over the years we have won multiply travel awards including Northern Ireland’s Best Coach Tour Operator (five consecutive years), Northern Ireland’s Best Short Break Operator, and our most recent, Best Sales Support to the Northern Ireland Travel Industry. Our range of travel and holiday experiences is vast and we are adding to it continuously.

We have a wide range of tours available… UK Coach & Air Trips | European Breaks | Family Holidays | Jersey | Cruise | Ski | Sport | USA & Caribbean | South Africa

We are open Monday to Friday 9.00am – 5.00pm, and Saturdays from 10.00am – 4.00pm.

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Travel Solutions, Northern Ireland’s leading tour operator, reporting 20% growth, and big plans for 2024

Travel Solutions, Northern Ireland’s leading tour operator, is delighted to announce both solid growth for 2023, with a 20% increase on 2019, the last real comparable year in the travel industry, combined with strong expansion plans for 2024, including new staff.

Travel Solutions has already taken on 5 new staff in 2023 to service their expansion and are currently recruiting for more expert staff.

Travel Solutions, an award-winning tour operator, operates charter programmes, both winter and summer, combined with use of scheduled flights, from Belfast City and Belfast International Airports, City of Derry Airport, Dublin, and UK airports.

Said Peter McMinn, Owner and MD “ it is great that the travel industry has got back on its feet again so quickly.  We have had a great year, thanks to great destinations and great loyalty from our travel agency partners and clients.   And that is why we have made the commitment to increasing our capacity by up to 15% from our summer charter business, and our new destinations for 2024, bringing more holiday choice to Northern Ireland.   We are looking forward to the challenge!

Exciting News for Summer 2024 – Charter Routes and Destinations for 2024:

NEW     Belfast City Airport to Venice – 4 th June to 24 th September

Opening up the resorts of Lido di Jesolo and Bibione on the Adriatic Coast,

Within close proxity to Venice

NEW     Belfast City Airport to Reus 

Opening up Costa Dorada, Salou and Portaventura

NEW     Belfast City Airport to Menorca in the Balearics

NEW     Dublin Lisbon -with TAP Airlines as partner – 11 th May to 14 th September

The resorts of Lisbon Coast – Estoril and Cascais as well as Lisbon itself

And further afield to the Alentejo region

And confirmed again for 2024 due to great success in Summer 2023:

City of Derry Airport to Faro – for holidays to The Algarve, Portugal

Charter will run from 20 th May to 26 th August 2024

Belfast City Airport to Verona – serving all of the resorts of Lake Garda, Italy’s largest lake, as well as Verona itself – and the Verona Opera Festival

Belfast City Airport to Palma de Mallorca – based on big success of their 2023 Summer Programme

Master the mountains – voted Northern Ireland’s leading ski tour operator, Travel Solutions expects a bumper ski season for 2023/24! 

Bulgaria               Travel Solutions is Ireland’s leading ski tour operator to Bulgaria – featuring the resorts of Pamporovo, Borovets and Bansko, with flights from Belfast and Dublin to Sofia Plovdiv

Austria                Austria is Ireland’s favourite ski destination – and this year again, Travel Solutions is operating Belfast Salzburg to some of Austria’s best Ski Destinations including

Zell am See-Kaprun, Saalbach-Hinterglemm Leogang, and Soll – all favourite Ski destinations

Romania             Travel Solutions  operates to the resort of Poiana Brasov in the Carpathian Mountains, with flights from Dublin to Bucharest

Awards – recognising Travel Solutions’s achievements & commitments to high standards in the travel trade:

This year has been a bumper year for awards for Travel Solutions:

4 Awards at the recent NI Travel Awards:

• Best Ski Tour Operator
• Best Escorted Tours
• Best sales Support to NI Travel Trade
• Best NI Trade Manager – Robert Wilson

And last month Travel Solutions also won Northern Ireland’s Leading Tour Operator at the World Travel Awards – winners for the 3 rd time in 4 years!

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Record-Breaking Night for Travel Solutions

Travel Solutions, Northern Ireland’s leading tour operator, celebrated a record-breaking night at the recent 30 th Anniversary  Northern Ireland Travel and Tourism Awards.

Voted by the local travel and tourism industry, Travel Solutions won six awards at the prestigious event, including Best Ski Operator for the fourth consecutive year.

Speaking after the awards, Travel Solutions Managing Director, Peter McMinn said “As Northern Ireland’s largest winter ski operator, we are extremely pleased to have been voted Best Ski Operator by our peers. It endorses the commitment of our team who work hard to ensure we offer our customers great value without compromising on quality or flexibility”.

Other categories in which Travel Solutions scored top spots were:

• Best Ski Operator 2022
• Best Escorted Tours Operator 2022
• Best Specialist Tour Operator 2022
• Best Sales Support Team to NI Travel Trade
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Travel Solutions Launch LATEST Sunny Beach 2023 Programme

Travel Solutions operate from Belfast International Airport, with weekly departures from mid-June to mid-August

Northern Ireland’s leading tour operator, Travel Solutions, has today (Friday 23) launched a summer 2023 holiday programme to Sunny Beach in Bulgaria. Making the announcement, the company’s Managing Director, Peter McMinn said,

“Holidays to Sunny Beach are extremely popular with the Northern Ireland public as the resort offers great value for money. Travel Solutions offer direct flights from Belfast with an excellent choice of accommodation from self-catering apartments to All Inclusive hotels.” Peter continued ,

”We continue to offer our popular properties that holidaymakers return to year after year but also pleased that we can introduce new All-Inclusive hotels that will allow our customers to budget for their summer holiday. Every property we feature has been inspected by a member of our team.” Travel Solutions operate from Belfast International Airport, with weekly departures from mid-June to mid-August. To book, contact your local travel agent , click on www.travel-solutions.co.uk or telephone 028 90455030

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He said he would be surprised if Liz Truss "didn't think those comments were abhorrent as well".

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"This is about actually giving young people opportunity, both in their education, to make sure they go on to great careers," Mr Spencer says. 

He explains that some will of course want to go to university - giving examples of wannabe lawyers and doctors - but other career paths may be better served by apprenticeship schemes. 

First up with Sophy Ridge tonight is Sir Mark Spencer, the food, farming, and fisheries minister.

Joining the Politics Hub in Grimsby, the minister is asked about the government's new pledge to scrap "rip-off degrees" in England - in favour of apprenticeships.

He says: "Universities should be a vehicle to enable young people to be able to go on and get a great career."

Sir Mark adds that going to university has become "an ambition to get to", rather than someone building a career and becoming more financially viable.

Asked which courses fall under the "rip-off" category, he says there are all sorts of "mad things" - such as degrees about "working in the circus".

The minister says jobs like this can be achieved without student debt.

Is this not just snobbery, Sophy asks.

"The apprenticeship route is actually better for lots of young people," he says.

The ongoing row over Diane Abbott's future as a Labour candidate "may only dent what could be a huge advantage" for the party heading into the upcoming general election, our deputy political editor Sam Coates says. 

He points to the latest Sky News YouGov poll - which shows a massive 47% share for the Labour Party, and just 20% for the Tories.

Reform UK take 12%, while the Lib Dems hold just 9%. 

Sam shows that 19% of 2019 Conservative voters will turn to Reform UK. 

Even with some help from Labour with this latest misstep, Sam asks: "Can Rishi Sunak really turn that massive Labour lead?"

There's been plenty of back and forth this week about Diane Abbott, who had the Labour whip restored yesterday.

Despite this, questions remain over whether she will be able to stand for the party - with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer insisting she is not barred.

Speaking at a rally in her Hackney North constituency, she said: "By any means possible I will continue to stand as the candidate for Hackney North."

The rally was only organised last night when reports first emerged that she might be barred from standing.

Ms Abbott said she was "shocked" to hear the reports.

She didn't make clear during her speech at the rally whether she'd be prepared to run as an independent.

In an election campaign, there's the grid: the policy announcements and campaign events that are carefully planned.

And then there are events that are most definitely off grid… the stories politicians don't want us to be talking about.

In other words, things that go a bit wrong. And it seems to me that we've seen the first real misstep by the Keir Starmer campaign.

Diane Abbott, the former Labour MP for Hackney, was suspended by the party after writing a letter in The Observer suggesting Jewish people don't suffer racism - but prejudice similar to redheads.

She's apologised for that, and there's been an ongoing and very public debate over whether the first black female MP should be allowed back into the party.

But here's where things get confusing.

It started with a Times article yesterday which said Ms Abbot had been banned from standing as a Labour MP at the election.

Then - at 7.30pm last night - I was told she had been given back the Labour whip.

But then things got even more confusing - because I woke up to a text message from Diane at 6.30am to say the Times story was right: she wasn't allowed to stand for Labour and hadn't heard from the party.

Well today, Keir Starmer says that's wrong. Diane Abbot has been given back the whip and no decision has been taken to bar her going forward.

It all looks pretty messy. And I can't help but think… it's only five weeks to the election. The campaign is happening right now. 

If it's true that no decision has been taken about whether Diane Abbot can stand… don't they need to get on with it?

Our weeknight politics show  Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge  is live now on Sky News.

The fast-paced programme dissects the inner workings of Westminster, with interviews, insights, and analysis - bringing you, the audience, into the corridors of power.

Tonight Sophy is in Grimsby, one of the  Target Towns  that will decide the election, and will be joined by farming minister  Mark Spencer  for the Tories and shadow social care minister  Andrew Gwynne  for Labour.

On Sophy's panel tonight are:

• Jeremy Armstrong , Daily Mirror journalist;
• Peter Craig , journalist who worked at the Grimsby Telegraph for 40 years.

Watch live on Sky News, in the stream at the top of this page, and follow live updates here in the Politics Hub.

Watch  Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge  from Monday to Thursday on Sky channel 501, Virgin channel 602, Freeview channel 233, on the  Sky News website  and  app  or on  YouTube .

Angela Rayner, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, has been cleared by HMRC over the tax on the sale of her former home, Sky News understands.

HM Revenue and Customs has confirmed that Ms Rayner owes no capital gains tax for the sale of her council home, a document seen by the Guardian shows.

No further action will be taken, it is understood.

It comes after Greater Manchester Police said that Ms Rayner had been cleared of wrongdoing after allegations that she wrongly declared her address on the electoral register.

This investigation was launched after a complaint by Tory MP James Daly.

With the general election campaign officially under way, what better time to keep a close eye on the latest polling?

The Sky News live poll tracker - collated and updated by our Data and Forensics team - aggregates various surveys to indicate how voters feel about the different political parties.

See the latest update below - and you can read more about the methodology behind the tracker  here .

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been in the South East of England today, chatting to voters and participating in a Q&A with members of the public.

In one visit, he was asked if he's already considering a new job... in telecoms.

You can watch the moment below:

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