The Mark Travel Corporation this week announced that as part of its ongoing integration with Apple Leisure Group (ALG), its new destination management company in Cancun will be ALG's Amstar, marking the end of Mark Travel's longstanding partnership with inbound operator Lomas Travel.
Starting on June 13, regardless of the booking date, all of Mark Travel's transfers and services in Cancun will be handled by Amstar; any Mark Travel customers arriving up to and including June 12 will be serviced by Lomas Travel.
Amstar will ultimately take over the destination management for Mark Travel in the following destinations: Costa Rica; Dominican Republic; Hawaii; Jamaica; and Acapulco, Huatulco, Ixtapa, Los Cabos, Mazatlan and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The exact dates of those transitions are yet to be announced.
For impacted Cancun itineraries, Mark Travel will issue new e-documents directly to agents prior to the changeover.
In October 2017, Lomas Travel's owner Joe Martinez received a very warm reception from the more than 650 travel agents who were attending the Mark Travel Summit, many of whom had worked with Lomas Travel for many years.