THE BUSINESS TRAVEL MAGAZINE I 39 The Review THE ALTERNATIVE NEWS ➔ Just a bit of sleep symphony
Sleep debt, neglected teddy bears, haunted houses and illicit encounters – welcome to The Business Travel Magazine's Alternative News page
TOP TRUMPS SHOWS ITS HAUNTED HAND
A TENUOUS connection to travel perhaps, but the National Trust has teamed up with Top Trumps to release a historic buildings version of the classic card game. Thirty historic buildings go head-to- head in battles over acreage, film and TV appearances, alleged hauntings and, wait for it, cups of tea consumed. Nottinghamshire’s Clumber Park takes that title, while Derbyshire’s Kedleston Hall wins the Hollywood Factor thanks to an astonishing 81 film and TV appearances, and Liverpool's Speke Hall claims the most hauntings.
WHEN it's not preoccupied with plans for a hotel on every street corner, Travelodge is keeping up its fine tradition of PR stunts and touching press releases. If nothing else, at least they continue to make their mark on this particular page of The Business Travel Magazine. This time round we have a live
classical music siesta service ‘designed to help some of the 22 million sleep-deprived British workers get some extra shut eye
during their work day’. The budget hotel operator’s research revealed the average worker has a weekly sleep debt of six hours, prompting it to trial the new service at its London City Road Travelodge. “Studies have shown the benefits
of a power nap in the afternoon, so the concept of a classical siesta is an innovative sleep aid,” says Ewan Crawford, of the Edinburgh Sleep Centre, surely one of very few people to have ‘Sleep Expert’
ALITALIA'S CHEQUERED FLAG
EGENCIA were the proud victors of Alitalia’s annual industry go-karting competition held in London’s Docklands in July, with 130 drivers representing 25 teams comprised of travel management companies and online
agencies. There were a couple of exceptions, notably Alitalia themselves who finished the two-hour endurance race in an admirable eighth position, and the
diplomatically named Allied Business Press who, suffice to say, were not last. With two drivers from The Business Travel Magazine, the team notched up 135 laps, just one less than the teams from HRG and Corporate Traveller, but several more
than Gray Dawes, Trailfinders, BCD Travel,
Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Portman Travel who were, it has to be said, somewhat off the pace.
printed on their business card. In other Travelodge develop- ments, the hotel group was sorry to announce the sad news that over 75,000 teddy bears have been left behind at its 452 hotels in the last year. Besides the fact that’s pretty much three neglected bears at each hotel every week of the year – we asked our accountant to do the maths – we're thinking Travelodge must have one hell of a lost property department.
MONIKER MADNESS
WHAT do Florence, Rio and Paris have in common? They’re the top three baby names shared by cities of the world, that’s what. Research carried out by the Bounty Parenting Group – yes, we’re not quite sure how it came to be in our possession either – saw India, Sydney, Lucia, Brooklyn, Savannah, Devon and Phoenix round out the top ten destination monikers.
AND FINALLY...
MORE research, this time from
illicitencounters.co.uk, reveals that over a third of its members have cheated on their spouse while travelling abroad, and two-thirds would rather travel with an illicit lover than their husband or wife. Tut-tut.
ONE lucky guest at an evening's horse racing hosted by TBTM couldn’t believe her luck when her £2 bet was put through by the bookmaker as a £20 bet... and she won! The guest (whose identity we are protecting) wisely asked someone else to collect her winnings which have reportedly already been spent on items for her newly purchased home.
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