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4830 4864 Group events manager Helen Bush 4887 4849 Cook has handled tragedy far better than Egyptian authorities
Story: Story: E. coli caused deaths of Egypt hotel couple The longer this goes on, the more damage the Egyptians are inflicting on their tourism industry. Tui, the major operator to the hotel, but not from the UK, has continued sending thousands of German tourists there. Death within less than 24 hours of any symptoms at all is unheard of from E. coli, so the suspicion remains there is a cover-up. When the truth is hidden, the national press make it up – they love these stories and find experts to condemn the travel industry – and the damage is done.
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After Peter Fankhauser’s “constructive” talks with the Egyptian PM, for which no details have been released, the investigation apparently indicates death due to E. coli. Yet several experts have said it is impossible for E. coli to have this impact in such a short
period of time. This leads to the common belief that there has been a cover-up – not to mention that German tourists are still being ferried there as if nothing has happened.
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I applaud Thomas Cook for its handling of this dreadful event. Peter Fankhauser was spot on when he said “stay with the facts, don’t speculate”.
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BA Holidays’ pricing has me stumped
I have lost out on more than £250,000 worth of bookings to direct-sell British Airways Holidays so far this year and it breaks my heart. The last one was for a booking worth £50,000 for six clients for a two-week trip
to Saint Lucia for the West Indies v England cricket in February. I put together a package with Carrier’s help, recommending Calabash Cove, describing the island, recommending restaurants and asking Carrier to hold all their BA Club World seats. So it came as a massive blow when these clients told me that they had instead
booked with BA Holidays as it saved them £5,000 per couple against my price. I felt this was a huge insult given all the hard work I had put in, especially as being a homeworker my income is only commission. BA Holidays sell their packages at such ridiculously cheap
prices that we independent specialists cannot even get close. Yet if BA Holidays won back the support of thousands of agents by raising their prices to a more realistic level, and we all had price parity, how much more profit might they make?
JENNY JACKSON, Your Luxury Travel Guru Travel Weekly welcomes a response from BA Holidays
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