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Fury at advice to discount
Agents have attacked popular consumer advice website
Moneysavingexpert.com for continuing to urge customers to demand discounts after a summer when price slashing was blamed for several failures. Critics claim the site’s founder, Martin Lewis, encourages customers to seek discounts that agents cannot give and could lead them to book with firms that might not be financially secure p5
End of the American dream Travel Counsellors has pulled out of the US four years after moving in, saying the country was not growing as fast as it had hoped p6
CARIBBEAN.
The totally tropical taste A look ahead to Caribbean Month, a family holidays focus, a review of a St Lucia hotel and an agent’s view of Turks and Caicos p39
Revellers with a cause: It was party time for the Barbados Tourism Authority’s Tanya Braithwaite (above) at Monday’s Notting Hill Carnival. But the Caribbean has a serious mission ahead next week when it sends a delegation of tourism ministers to warn the coalition government that an increase in Air Passenger Duty would cripple the region’s economy News, p4
TTG VIRTUAL Register now: last chance to sign up for UK’s first online travel event and learn all the latest luxury travel trends, p9
travel trade gazette
03.09.2010
Bajan Revellers: Pee Freeman/Dee Skeete
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