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More ways to enjoy green stays. 🌿 It’s great to see how the number of EU Ecolabel hotels and campsites is growing, with nearly 800 options now available for travellers across Europe! 🌍 This means more opportunities to make sustainable and ethical choices when planning your next getaway. At lastminute.com, we advocate for the adoption of trusted certifications like #EUEcolabel to help make responsible travel easier for everyone. With more collaborations like this and awareness campaigns, the visibility of sustainable options continues to grow! ✨

❤️ Introducing our latest Travel Horizons Report – Couples Edition! With our in-house Travel Intelligence Unit at Forward, born from lastminute.com, we’ve gathered fresh insights into the travel habits and preferences of dynamic duos across Europe. Here’s a sneak peek of our findings: - Spontaneity is in: couples increasingly opt for #lastminute getaways, with a notable +28% rise. - #Amsterdam tops the list of city breaks, while #SharmElSheikh is the favourite for sun-seeking couples. - #Dubai and the #CanaryIslands are quickly climbing the ranks in both categories—keep an eye on them! 👉 Curious for more? Dive into the full report for all the exciting trends shaping couples’ travel this season!

🍂 As September sets and October arrives the Northern Hemisphere Autumn sees us heading into the final quarter - so how much holiday do you have left? The EU average is 33 days of annual leave (including public holidays), and while the bulk of that is usually used up by now - if you have a few cheeky days left we’ve got some travel inspiration straight from our team. ✨ Taking time off is hugely important for wellbeing, so from the sandy beaches of Rio and the Med to the majestic Ica Desert and snowy Alpine peaks - we’re delighted to share some of the team's trip highlights and top tips. Holidays are at the heart of everything we do so we encourage our people to get their time-off booked off - because after all, #WeLiveForTheHolidays. 

🌍 This Friday, on World Tourism Day, we’re joining the European Commission’s webinar alongside other industry experts to discuss the role of the #EMAS EU Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, a certification process aimed at helping tourism businesses reduce their environmental impact. 🌱 At lastminute.com, we advocate for the adoption of trusted certifications and we’re dedicated to helping customers have all the information they need to make more sustainable, ethical, and inclusive travel choices. To support this, we’ve launched a new page on our editorial hub, #PlanetHeart, with an overview of the certifications we support - including EMAS: [https://lnkd.in/dVUXuNng] 🔗 Don't forget to register for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/dmBwDfUx

🏐🏆 Celebrating team spirit and friendly competition  Shout out to our colleagues who travelled to 🌊Igea Marina (Italy) last weekend to take part in the annual SkyTeam Airline Alliance Beach Volleyball Tournament. This competitive event brings together 20 teams from some of the leading names in the travel industry, including Trip.Com, Alpitour, and Uvet. We've proudly taken part for 13 years, and this year was extra special. Representing both lastminute.com and our Italian brand Volagratis, we had two strong teams in the tournament. For the first time ever, the finals became a derby between our two squads, with Volagratis emerging as the champions! 🏆 We’re proud of the teamwork, sportsmanship, and dedication shown by everyone involved! Congratulations to both teams for making it a memorable event! 👏

🇫🇷 Our team were de-light-ed to be in Paris with the Crème de la crème of the travel industry at IFTM. Their four days in France were all about connecting with contacts, meeting potential partners, attending talks and networking from dawn to dusk. 🤝 Thanks to everyone who came to have a tête-à-tête with our colleagues. Getting out and about to meet people in the industry has always been a huge part of our culture. So from Bonjour to Bon Voyage - hope everyone had as wonderful time as we did. #Travel #Paris #lastminute

🏦 Giving our customers a seamless and secure way to pay for their holidays is a service we take seriously. Our work with TrueLayer now offers holidaymakers the option to Pay By Bank, which can be crucial for bigger trips when some traditional payment methods have set limits. The travel industry is always evolving so adaptability and agility are crucial for holiday providers and their partners and suppliers, particularly those in the digital travel space like ourselves. Check out the lovely video featuring our very own Fintech and Payments Director, Nicola, talking all things payments, to discover more! #PayByBank #holidays #OpenBanking

If we could enCAPSULE-ate how we feel about our partners in one image! As proud sponsors of the lastminute.com London Eye, we were delighted to host some of our key B2B partners for a private Champagne pod experience in the capital. We turned around the wheel, and the sun was the special guest who RSVPed at the last minute. Our incredible partnerships team covers everything from consumer promotions, loyalty incentives and rewards as well as gift cards – and they’ve been doing it for over a decade. And if you want to know more about the partnerships team and all the wonderful things they do - well we have a page for that - https://lnkd.in/d6TXcQ9t 🙏🏼 Edenred, Reward Gateway, Blackhawk Network, uggy, Cardlytics #LastminuteLondonEye #partnerships #giftcards

Welcoming our joiners around the world 🌍 We’re always thrilled to greet new faces as they embark on their journey with us at lastminute.com! 📷 Check out these photos of our most recent team members at our Bangalore hub in India. We kicked things off with a specially curated induction to help everyone settle in and feel right at home. As September begins, we wish all our newbies -  in our Indian hub or across our global offices - a fantastic career journey with us. Here’s to fresh starts and exciting adventures ahead! 💼 #WelcomeAboard #JoinTheTeam #EmployeeExperience

⛱️ The OOO is still on for some of our #PinkPeople as they #LiveForTheHolidays this summer. But they’ve kindly taken some timeout to send us some travel inspiration for that age-old question; Where to next? In the third instalment of our series, we have dispatches from Tunisia, Uganda, Portugal and Italy. With top tips on what to see, do - and most importantly - what to eat we love seeing our employees live their best lives on holiday. 🏝️🏔️🗽 👉🏼 Here’s our latest #TravelTips - Go check it out!