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Out & About
The lighter side of travel
No shop talk is
Leno’s USP
W
OULD
MOST comedians tailor their act to
YO
U
their audience when turning out for
BELIEVE
a gig at industry conferences or
IT!?
awards – but not the king of US talk
shows, Jay Leno.
The former Tonight Show host made no
concession to the occasion when he was one of
the star turns (second on the running order to
Bill Clinton) at the National Business Travel
Association Convention in San Diego.
Leno strangely avoided the hot topics of the
Mancunian-Nordic pandas? Bear with us...
day, such as baggage charges or face-to-face
meetings versus video-conferencing. WHY exactly have we got a picture of travel in question, has nearly quadrupled its
In fact, travel was one of the few subjects not agents, with panda bears, in Manchester, at a market share at Manchester airport by
to appear in his repertoire, which ranged from party hosted by a Scandinavian airline? offering customers the chance to fly to
acts best carried out alone behind closed doors It’s not an easy one to piece together China and the Far East without transiting
to American foreign policy. – until you remember that Finnair, the airline through Heathrow.
It was a refreshing change from the normal
acronym-heavy business travel diet of BSPs,
SMEs, ADMs, EMDs . MASCOT MAGIC: Anxious the Elephant
will be celebrating her birthday 35 times later
this month.
JET-SET PRIMATE: Southampton The Haven mascot will be joined by friends
airport staff have been lauded as the most Rory the Tiger, Greedy the Gorilla and Bradley
courteous in Europe, and now it appears they Bear across the company’s 35 UK holiday parks
also look after the cutest passengers. from September 21-25.
Meet Kayah (pictured below), an orphaned Family fun will include a birthday ceremony
female ring-tailed lemur, who flew in to with music and dancers, party games including
Southampton with Flybe to be homed at the pass the parcel, a
Monkey World rescue centre in Dorset. character photo and a
Kayah was orphaned when she was taken for goody bag to take home
the exotic pet business and became aggressive at the end of the day for
as she was being kept on her own. all the children. Lovely bubbly: Midcounties Co-op agent Lucy
She now has some company as she has been Haven is encouraging Whitehouse, from Cannock in Staffordshire,
settled with nine other lemurs at the Monkey agents to book clients in celebrates after becoming the first agent
World park. now at bourneleisure to sell a customer a lounge booking as an
sales.co.uk as places are upgrade to their Birmingham airport hotel
filling up fast. stay on Holiday Extra’s new booking system.
She is pictured with Steve Wilkinson, major
account manager at Holiday Extras, who pre-
LOCK, STOCK & TWO SMOKING sented her with champagne and chocolates.
CLAIM FORMS: Outsiders may think the The new service enables agents to
world of travel insurance is a little dry. But a TTG customise an airport hotel booking by adding
reporter’s recent foray into the sector revealed a extras such as meals and room upgrades.
lively world of bare-knuckle competition.
Far from focusing on the mathematical calcu-
lations used to calculate risk and premiums,
GOT A FUNNY STORY?
the talk was feisty to say the least.
Don’t keep it to yourself – let TTG share it
When one boss was asked about the merits
with the travel trade. Weird and wonderful
of a competitor’s product, his response was:
photos also welcome. Call Rupert Murray on
“That boy needs a good slap.” 020 7921 8010 or
rmurray@ttglive.com
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