Secret Escapes extends reach through partnership with online lifestyle club Achica

Secret Escapes, the members-only travel club, is to provide hotel and city-break offers to Achica, an online lifestyle club, via a white-label deal.

The Achica partnership is the fourth Secret Escapes has sealed since its launch in February.

The start-up, which announced second round funding in October, already has deals with Teletext Holidays and Planet Confidential and has also recently formed a partnership with the Telegraph Media Group.

Secret Escapes boss Alex Saint describes this latest tie-up with Achica as a good demographic fit.

In terms of the number of flash sales sites that have sprung up recently, Saint believes there is room for one or two in each sector:

“We think we can do a great job. We’re ABTA bonded and we have a best online rate guarantee. We will not  put a deal on the site that is not significantly better than anywhere else. UK consumers are a bit discount weary and we have to be careful not to oversell the discount message.”

Secret Escapes also offers consumers links to other sites enabling them to check deals for themselves.

The company plans to bring further package holiday offers to the service early next year as well as a pipeline of further partnerships.

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Linda Fox About Linda Fox

Linda Fox is a reporter for Tnooz. For the past six years she has worked as a freelance journalist across a range of B2B titles including Travolution, ABTA Magazine, Travelmole and the Business Travel Magazine.

In this time she has also undertaken corporate projects for a number of high profile travel technology, travel management and research companies.

Prior to her freelance career she covered hotels and technology news for Travel Trade Gazette for seven years. Linda joined TTG from Caterer & Hotelkeeper where she worked on the features desk for more than five years.

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