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Here’s a tip: Do away with cruise gratuities
Story: Special Report: The great cruise gratuities debate I am against automatic tipping. Tipping should be made when a good service is rendered. Cruise gratuities are a rip-off and should be done away with. During the last two cruises we did not pay gratuities but gave a very good tip to our chamber maid and waiters. They were happy and said it was more than they usually receive.
CHARLES DEBONO
People’s vote on Brexit is edging ever closer
Story: Abta welcomes six-month Brexit delay Brexit is now the Halloween horror show. It is very appropriate as we seem to have a zombie government. Will the politicians use the time wisely? The people’s vote is looming ever larger, and quite frankly, the quicker it comes the better, to end the impasse.
PATRICK DOYLE
Clia UK & Ireland @CliaUK We’re excited that for the first time, more than two million people in the UK & Ireland went cruising!
Advantage Travel Partnership @AdvantageHQ It’s official, AmaDouro has been christened! A massive well done to [godmother] @jlo_said
QUOTE OF THE
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“We desire to become the most-loved travel company. No one else would dare say that. But we will fuse magical
service with an unbelievable product.”
SHAI WEISS, chief executive, Virgin Atlantic › Travel Weekly Business, page 71
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18 April 2019
travelweekly.co.uk19 Cook investors will demand change at top
Story: Thomas Cook ‘may have exceeded borrowing limits’ How much incompetence is enough? Surely with the endless profit warnings and other mess-ups Thomas Cook’s investors will demand change at the top that will dictate a new strategy and direction. The CAA should be asking themselves why they renewed its Atol licence.
PHILIP Travel Weekly welcomes a response from Thomas Cook
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Jack Weaver @jacktweaver #NotreDameCathedralFire It’s survived a revolution, two world wars and now a fire. Wounded but alive. Well done @PompiersParis
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TALK BACK WHAT YOU’RE SAYING THIS WEEK
Story: Top-10 Atol-holder capacity goes up It’s impossible to read what this all means. At first glance, 15% more capacity in a market that is struggling to find impetus is a recipe for massive late discounting and operator distress. However, the regulatory changes referred
to by Alan Bowen are likely to have had a significant impact and the market may be more in balance than it first appears. The most likely outcome is some increase
in late discounting, but in the Alice-in- Wonderland-world of Theresa May’s continuing Brexit debate with her own party, really, almost anything could happen... PAUL SAWBRIDGE
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Is more capacity a recipe for discounts?
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