Wendy Wu Tours will add the Dawn Ceremony at Gallipoli as an option for New Zealand and Australian travellers in 2024.

Managing director Paul Dymond says people attending the service will then go onto the Treasures of Turkey tour that the company recently launched.

Wendy Wu Tours will be one of the first companies with tour groups allowed back into Japan.

Wendy Wu, founder of Wendy Wu Tours says that with passengers unable to travel to Japan for so long, people have missed out on the Japan spring cherry blossom festival and the autumn foliage colours.

A whole new portfolio, the largest expansion of product in Wendy Wu Tours’ history, is an enduring and positive result of the Covid pandemic, the company’s founder says,

‘Of course Covid was devastating for us and for the whole industry,’ says founder Wendy Wu. ‘However, out of the ashes of that we have expanded into places like Scotland, Portugal, Jordan, Egypt, Israel and central Asia. In the past we have always added a destination at a time.’

Wendy Wu Tours has released a dedicated Australia and New Zealand brochure, with two new programmes complementing its existing range of tours.

The Australasian collection has a new seven-day Tasmanian Highlights tour, focusing on the eastern coastline including Freycinet National Park and Wineglass Bay as well as Cape Pillar. Clients will also visit historical Port Arthur and sample Tasmania’s local produce, including a visit to Freycinet Oyster Farm. The tour is priced from $5600 per person, twin share.

Wendy Wu Tours has a new 2022-23 Japan interactive digital brochure, also featuring Taiwan and South Korea.

It features the operator’s range of fully inclusive group tours including its Classic range covering the essential highlights of Japan as well specialised itineraries. Also featured are immersive Go Beyond tours and dedicated solo departures on popular itineraries with additional inclusions such as free chauffeur transfers and airport lounge passes (selected cities).

A touch of the Wendy Wu Tours’ international experience combined with a ‘behind the scenes’ look at New Zealand provide a point of difference for the company’s just launched domestic programme, says managing director Paul Dymond.

‘We didn’t want to put something into the market that was already there,’ says Dymond. ‘These are fully inclusive tours aimed specifically at the Wendy Wu customer – and we’ve got hundreds of

Japan has plenty of life in it yet as a travel destination out of New Zealand and agents should get familiar with the opportunities it provides for their clients, says the founder of Wendy Wu Tours.

Remember the sleepy Asian villages of some 20 years ago? They still exist. Trish Freeman joined some Kiwi travel agents who were lucky enough to ‘step back in time’ in laid-back Laos.
Hugging the Mekong and Nam Khan Rivers, the northern resort town of Luang Prabang was the highlight of a Wendy Wu Tours-Singapore Airlines famil to the destination earlier this year.
From offering alms to the monks, cruising the Mekong, heading inland to waterfalls, sampling Mekong whisky and leisurely retail therapy at a craft village, the agents discovered that Laos caters to all travellers. Rising at dawn to see the procession of monks proved so enjoyable for Andrew Kemp, House of Travel Timaru, and Davy Chen, Flight Centre Mt Eden, that they did it again the following day, while the