Here’s Travel Gossip’s round up of things we learned about the travel industry this week:

1 We said goodbye to not one, but two niche trade brands, leading one agent to remind us to ‘use them or lose them’.  

2 We had another example of how you clever agents never miss an opportunity to make a sale.

3 The cost of that new ‘visa at your doorstep’ is eye-watering.

4 We wish we’d asked Derek Jones to elaborate on his ‘heroic rescue’ at this branch that has just shut down.

5 This potentially expensive mistake caused a lot of stress – as it turns out, the original ticket would’ve been fine.