As of October 19, the company owed £1.2 million in refunds and had paid back £10.8 million since Covid struck. The Teletext brand is subject to legal action from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over the failure of Truly Holdings to pay refunds on cancelled package holidays. Flight-inclusive holidays will continue to go ahead, with TTA Travel collecting balances and paying the relevant suppliers. TTNG did not reveal the number of bookings affected but said all had been recontracted with TTA Travel, its fulfilment company. It has not been able to take new bookings since its membership was closed on October 29. Truly Travel, which became Teletext Holidays’ sole supplier of holiday offers and advertising in 2013, had traded under the Atol licence provided by TTA. TTA, part of The Travel Network Group (TTNG), said liquidators had been appointed because of “ongoing challenges to meet existing non-travel creditors”.
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The move could result in the end of the Teletext Holidays brand, which was founded in 1992 and became one of the best-known mainstream holiday providers on TV in the 1980s and 1990s.
Teletext Limited also owns Freeview channels 102, 103 and 104, but these were taken by the Rabbit, Gay Rabbit and 1-2-1 dating channels respectively.Liquidators have been appointed to close down Teletext Holidays parent Truly Travel following the termination of its Travel Trust Association (TTA) membership on Friday. The spokeswoman said that the Freeview channel will "continue to operate under the operational ownership of the Daily Mail group, who hold agreements to operate the platform going forward".ĭMGT is the parent company of media titles such as the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Metro.Īssociated Newspapers Limited - publisher of the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday - was awarded a broadcast licence in February 2012 by Ofcom for "Mail Travel TV".īut a placeholder for that text channel has already appeared at channel 106 on the Freeview electronic programme guide, so it is unclear what will be done with the spare channel at 101. Along with 'all Inclusive' and 'cheap holiday' terms, it is one of the most popular sites ranked within Google and Bing." "With more than 20 million unique users in 2011, it ranks within the top ten most visited websites for online holiday searches, according to Hitwise. "At people can search and compare prices from thousands of holiday offers, including packages, cruises and villa deals from the UK's leading travel companies. In a statement issued to Digital Spy, a Teletext spokeswoman said: "Teletext Holidays has been a television platform for over 15 years, and will continue this trend within digital only platforms developing apps and platforms for Smart or connected TVs, but has decided to relinquish its Freeview 101 channels at the end of September 2012. Teletext Holidays continued as a standalone service on Freeview, but it has now been confirmed to come to an end this autumn.ĭMGT sold its majority stake in the long-running Teletext service to its current management (as Teletext Holdings Ltd) for an undisclosed sum in December 2011.ĭMGT retained a minority shareholding in the Teletext operation, which includes Teletext Holidays, .uk and .uk, along with various mobile apps. The publisher shut down the Teletext information service on analogue and digital television platforms in December 2009, ahead of the initially scheduled January 2010 closure. In May 2010, Ofcom levied a massive £225,000 fine on the Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), the then owner of Teletext, for its early closure of the loss-making service on television. This marks the latest retreat of the once mighty Teletext from the television. Teletext Holidays will quit Freeview channel 101 at the end of September, as its owners have opted to focus on the website and emerging connected TV apps. Teletext Holidays is to finish its long run on television platforms later in the year when the service shuts down as a channel on Freeview, it has been confirmed.
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