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Armed with maps and bus passes, our sales personnel spent two weeks in the London area cedling on travel agencies and corporate accounts. They also hosted three receptions for travel agency owners and civic leaders. In addition, they visited hotel properties being offered by Piedmont Vacations. Posing with a London guard during a tour Eire (kneeling, 1 to r) Frank Sarakaitis (CAE), Mike Usher (INT), Marsha Jenkins (CLT), Cindy Dixon (MIA), Aprel Hawley (INT), and Jim Van Woert (ROC); (standing, 1 to r) Ben Bailey (TRI), Tbdd Neuman (MSP), Chrystal Sanchez (PHL), Steve Clary (MCO), Jim Caldwell (AVL), Rhonda Groce (ORD), Joan Myers (DCA), Derrick Surratt (RDU), Pam Atkinson (tour de velopment, INT), Dave Myrick (sales planning, INT), Mark Ar rington (TPA), James Douglas (CLT), John Tingle (DEN), and Mike Barefoot (ORF). fAe aH ^ selling Pcedment Ads. blitzes, bro chures, and the like— marketing has been touting our new Lon don service both in the United States and abroad. Here are just a few exanjples of the work that has been going on as these enj- ployees sell Piedmont. Piedmont Vacation is offering four tour packages in conjunction with our new Lxindon service. The four packages are: London to Enjoy—six nights at selected hotels with private baths, continental breakfast daily, round-trip rail transfers between Gatwick and Victoria Station, and a seven-day London regional transport pass; priced from $739. London Showtime —hotel ac commodations for six nights, continental breakfast daily, two theater tickets/person, and a tour of English countryside; priced from $819. Great Britain Fly/Drive—six to 14 nights at hotel with private bath, car rental, and free phone- ahead privilege for hotel reserva tions; priced from $719. The Best of Britcdn—One week escorted motorcoach tour of England and Scotland; priced from $1,084. Piedmont Vacations are inclu sive tour packages which carry the Piedmont private label and are a combined effort with Fun way Holidays. Sam Keene, city sales manager-RIC, greets the Honor able David Cornwell, Lord Mayor of Richmond on the Thames, England, at a reception and dinner held in Richmond, VA, for the entire travel agent com munity of central Virginia. Members of Richmond on the Thames’ city council and the former British Ambassador to Bulgaria also attended the event celebrating our upcoming Lon don service. People traveling to the United States via New York often must wait in long lines at Customs be fore entering our country. In fact, in one of our new ads which will begin appearing in the U.K. June 16, the wait is so long, a man’s short beard now ^ drags the ground, a young boy has out-grown his clothes, and a pregnant woman has given birth. “This 40-second television spot points out that at CLT, getting through Customs is quick and easy,” Jim Robinson, manager-advertising, explains. London Bridge Is Going Ur> Sales personnel blanketed travel agencies in the T&mpa area with brochures, posters, and banners this spring. They also gave out tea tins, shaped like double-decker buses with T\irinings’ English breakfast tea bags inside, to travel agents to promote our new service. Among those taking part in this sales blitz are (1 to r) Mark Arrington, TPA sales representative: Keith Holden, EWR sales representa tive; Terrell Mellen, LAX sales representative; Davis Gray, TPA sales manager; and Chrys tal Sanchez, PHL sales representative. 7 June 15, 1987 • Special Edition • Piedmonitor
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