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Jenny Ley-Meek “The bad weather
is sparking a surge of bookings from
clients begging us to find them
somewhere warm to escape to”
A
s fresh snow falls up and down resulting in some sunburn!
the country, the big freeze is It shows the importance of selling quality
definitely still on. While this accommodation – hotels with superior
is not unusual in January in facilities, a wide range of daytime
the UK, I am really starting to wonder activities and great evening
whether the world’s weather has gone entertainment to ensure clients
mad! have a great holiday even if
For the last seven years my the weather is poor.
family and I have spent Without being too
Christmas basking under the pessimistic, we’re also
Caribbean sun. This year we tactfully offering or
spent more time running into upgrading clients to
the warm sea to take cover from full-board so they have
the frequent downpours! In somewhere to go for a
Orlando it was so cold we headed long lunch if the weather
straight to the malls to buy jackets, is disappointing.
ditching the usual shorts and T-shirts. Back in the UK, the silver lin-
Back home, I was left two messages ing to these sub-zero temperatures
from a regular client visiting Melbourne. has been the red-hot phone lines at
On their first day they called to say that Superior Travel. And as the bad weather
despite it being the middle of summer, continues to spark a surge of bookings
the rain was lashing down and it was from clients begging us to find them
ridiculously cold. somewhere warm to escape to, or a
Yet the second call made on their final summer holiday to look forward to,
day said they had just witnessed one of the us homeworkers are loving this crazy
hottest days on record in Melbourne, with weather – let it snow, let it snow, let it
temperatures in excess of 40C. snow!
This week, another client called from
Benidorm asking if he could change his
flight home because he was so disappointed
that since arriving for his 42-night holiday,
he and his wife simply could not get warm.
It was the worst weather he’d seen in 10
years of visiting. Then, speaking with him
just two days later with confirmation of
his change, he told me what a wonder- Jenny Ley-Meek works for homeworking
fully sunny day he had just had, even company Superior Travel
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