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Out & about
The lighter side of travel
W
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BELIEVE
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ALIKE
Less is Moore, claims naked Derek
NO, Derek Moore hasn’t embarked on a topless egg timer left in all Aito delegates’ rooms to
modelling career. promote The Travel Foundation’s water
He’s striking this pose in the shower to show conservation project.
off a water saving project in Marrakech, where As far as we know it is Moore’s first topless
V
Aito held its conference this year. photoshoot although many delegates appar-
IT
The Aito chairman was demonstrating the ently expressed their sincere hope that it A BIT MARSH: Sarah Imrie of Royal
art of taking a three-minute shower using an wouldn’t be his last. Caribbean Cruise Line was pestered for
her autograph while at the Hays IG
conference in Marbella. Many who saw
Future is far from clear for TTA signwriters
her were convinced that she was in fact
former Hear’Say star, now Coronation
AN UNFORTUNATE misspelling greeted The mistake was pointed out by conference Street actor, Kym Marsh. It wasn’t until
delegates arriving for the recent Travel Trust moderator Keith Betton who suggested, given the autograph hunters heard her Geordie
Association conference at the Hilton London the state of the UK economy, it was more apt. accent that they realised they were not
Metropole. But what no one in the auditorium may have in the presence of reality TV royalty.
The conference sign on the hotel foyer realised is that the theme – spelt properly –
should have said “Future in Focus”. In fact, it had been used by former Abta honcho Betton
read “Future in Fucus”. for an Abta conference in the 1980s.
Chris
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Virgin flicks a few trees into touch
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VIRGIN Holidays is undoubtedly a company
that is working hard to establish its green
credentials.
So the TTG team were a little taken aback by
the seeming lack of environmental friendliness
of the press office’s Christmas greeting.
Rather than a traditional card, they sent
out 72-page flick books. These were amusing
for 30 seconds, but probably less so for people
concerned about conserving the world’s trees. All in order? Virgin’s Xmas gift has raised eyebrows
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