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EXCLUSIVE
Independence goes year-round
One of the world’s largest ships,
Royal Caribbean’s Independence of
the Seas, is to be based year-round
in Southampton. The move was
touted as a huge vote of confidence
in the ex-UK cruise market. p7
Freedom Direct
rescue bid ‘too late’
Attempts to save online
travel agent Freedom
Taking TTG’s Fair Fares campaign to parliament are, from left: Andy Cooper, Abta development director; John Taker, purchasing director,
Direct Holidays could have
Virgin Holidays; Ed Bartlett, Jamaica’s tourism minister; John Lynch,chairman, Jamaica Tourism Board; and Chris Gray, deputy news editor, TTG
succeeded if started sooner,
APD Fair Fares fight
it has been claimed. p10-11
EasyJet to cut feeds
to be an election issue
to leisure agents
No-frills carrier to switch off
feeds to agents as screen-
Caribbean governments have pledged to make the impact of APD on the islands scraping row intensifies. p9
a general election issue next year by mobilising the islands’ communities in
KNOWLEDGE.
marginal constituencies. They started the campaign at the House of Lords this
A taste of the
week where Jamaica tourism minister Ed Bartlett (centre) told a minister how
Caribbean
the chancellor’s budget decision to press ahead with increases to the tax would
Tropical treats for food lovers
hit the island. The 6,500 people who signed TTG’s Fair Fares petition showed
and lots more in our 16-page
Caribbean communities were aware they would be hurt by the tax, he said. p5 Caribbean special. p38
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