Let Martin Lane tell you a tale of two travel brands, of holiday giants who had their heyday in the 1960s, before air travel was widely affordable, and how they coped in a low-cost budget airline world.
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Spinning the Media: Pack your suitcase for some free advertising
Welcome to a world of junkets and media familiarisation tours: also known as the travel section of your local newspaper, write Giselle Nguyen, Ajay Khandhar and Yasmin Geneva.
Beautiful one day, disaster management the next
Working in the travel industry isn’t all cocktails and yachts (but there is a lot of that too). Darrell Wade, co-founder and CEO of Intrepid Travel, explains how to deal with an international disaster, anxious tourists and evacuations by helicopter.
In tourism, even libel can be a world away
Libel tourism has been catapulted into the headlines after aviation writer Joe Sharkey was served a writ for defamatory statements he says he didn’t make in Brazil after surviving a mid-air collision in 2006.
