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Spike in Greek holidays due to the Euro

A combination of the coming summer and flailing Euro has led to record bookings for holidays in Greece, say Calum MacDonald, Marketing Manager at Holiday Hypermarket: “It’s incredibly affordable to travel in the Eurozone at the moment, and that includes…

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Season 2012 bookings already started

Travel operators are expecting high demand for Greece in summer 2012. One cruise operator has already seen an 80% jump in bookings for Greek itineraries, according to travel industry magazine Travel Weekly. Fotis Lambrianides, Commercial Director of Olympic Airways, says…

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Swedish tourists head to Greece

Swedish travel companies Ving and Fritidsresor have both reported a 10 percent increase in bookings to Greece this summer compared to last year. “We’ve seen a huge interest in Greece ahead of this summer,” Ving spokesperson Magdalena Öhrn told the…

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2011 summer holidays season bookings increase

In an interview to the local newspaper “Rodiaki”, the president of the Rhodes Hotels Association, Mr. Vassilis Minaidis expressed optimism regarding the upcoming summer holidays season. According to Mr. Minaidis, an increase of about 10% in hotel bookings is expected…

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PwC on recent travel agents collapse

PwC partner Ian Oakley-Smith commented on the recent Kiss Flights collapse that “No-one expected” the budget holiday operator to fall into administration at the height of the holiday season. All recent travel operators that collapsed like Goldtrail, Sun4U and Kiss…

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TUI and Thomas Cook soft sales

Thomas Cook, Europe’s second biggest travel firm, announced that revenue fell 9% in the three months to June 30, blaming the uncertain economic environment, the impact of the volcanic ash, the World Cup and the good weather in the UK.…

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