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Sandy Murray is calling for cats to be neutered
Dubai unveils plans to create $32bn airport to handle 200m passengers
Dubai plans to invest $32 billion to create one of the world’s largest aviation mega-hubs and the home of Emirates. Dubai’s ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has
approved a project to expand the Gulf state’s second airport, allowing the airline to move to the facility by the mid-2020s. Dubai Airports, operator of Al Maktoum International airport, said the new facility should become the biggest hub in the world. It welcomed the city state ruler’s endorsement of the plan
to dramatically expand the facility – located in an area known as Dubai World Central – so it can handle up to 200 million passengers a year. ❯ Heathrow ‘has MPs’ backing’, page 79
Former Sainsbury’s boss to open WTM
Former Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King will open this year’s World Travel Market (WTM) in London. King, who stepped down from the supermarket
giant in July after 10 years, will open the show in November at the WTM Captains of Industry Opening Lunch, which will host 200 of the industry’s most senior executives. BBC presenter Stephen Sackur will interview King about his career in business. Last year’s guest speaker was former Marks & Spencer chairman and chief executive Sir Stuart Rose.
Billy Bear, Bonnie Bear and Butlins Redcoats join Jade Korkagor, Thomas
Cook (left), and Jamie-Leigh Evans, The Co-operative Travel, both Bognor Regis
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Hays Travel Independence reveals conference sessions This year’s Hays Travel Independence Group Conference will take place on November 22-25 at the Tivoli Victoria hotel in Vilamoura, Portugal. Sessions will include discussions about web marketing, led by John Hays of Hays Travel and Kenny Picken of Traveltek, long-haul travel, retail and training. To register, email
igconference@hays-travel.co.uk
Win £50 voucher or Butlins break in festive incentive Agents can earn a £50 Love2shop voucher for every Warner Leisure Hotels festive booking and entry to win a Butlins Christmas Fantasy break with every Butlins festive booking. Bourne Leisure is offering the deal to agents as part of its ‘Festive Fun with Bourne’ incentive, for bookings made by September 26. All claims must be made by September 30. Find out more at
bourneleisuresales.co.uk.
Agent raises £750 to halt rise of stray cats in Greece
An animal-loving travel agent is calling on hoteliers and operators to help stem the rise in stray cats in Greek resorts. Sandy Murray, owner of Sandy’s Travel Escapes and previously Sandy Travel, says the number of strays in Greece is escalating because no one will take responsibility to neuter the cats. Murray has raised £750 for
the Greek Cat Welfare Society. The society has allocated £3,000 to neuter cats in Gouves, Greece, after a request by Murray, who holidays there. “This is a bit of a personal crusade for me. One cat can have a litter of kittens three or four times a year. If hoteliers could pay for one or two to be neutered a month there wouldn’t be all these kittens fighting to survive.” Murray would like to see hotels set up ‘cat cafes’ – feeding stations – to stop cats
scavenging for food at tourist restaurants, and have money-box collections so guests can
contribute spare change to help solve the problem.
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