CONTENTS
Section 1 - Personal Experiences/ Humour
Section 2 – Business Comment
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCES
/ HUMOUR
Mustique Travel and holiday report
Is Virgin Upper Class really Upper Class?
Bookings.com A Cautionary tale
Business Lunches and Dinners Consolidated
The Maldives. A tale of four islands
Holidaying in the Maldives – General
Majorca Holidays – Complete
Anguilla Travel and Holiday report
Entertaining foreign Guests – Consolidated
Two trips to Brazil
Bequia Travel report
Thomson Champagne and chocolate
Cephalonia Holiday
Getting an Upgrade. A matter of Life and Death?
The Longest Flight Home
Entertaining foreign
dignitaries - Part 4
Entertaining Foreign
Dignitaries - part 3
Entertaining Foreign
Dignitaries – Part 2
An Innocent in Brazil
- Part 3
An Innocent in Brazil
– Part 2
An Innocent in Brazil
– Part 1
Entertaining Foreign
Dignitaries - Part 1
Readers Forum
A Blogger in Paradise
-Majorca Part 4
A Blogger in Paradise
-Majorca Part 3
A Blogger in Paradise
–Majorca Part 2
A Blogger in Paradise
–Majorca Part -1
Dining Out on
Business Travel - Part 6
Dining Out on Business Travel - Part 5
Dining Out on
Business Travel – Part 4
Dining out on
Business Travel - Part 3
Dining out on
Business Travel – Part 2
Dining Out on
Business Travel – Part 1
A Secure Life Abroad
– Part 6
A Secure Life Abroad
- Part 5
A Secure Life Abroad
- Part 4
A Secure Life Abroad
– Part 3
My life in Hotels -
Part 4
My Greatest 'Hits'
My life in hotels –
Part 3
My Life in Hotels
Part 2
My life in Hotels -
Part 1
My Life in Bars -
Part 1
A Blogger in Paradise
- Maldives
Children Behaving
Badly - Unmins
Passengers Behaving
badly – Concorde
A Secure Life Abroad
2 - Zambia
A Secure Life Abroad
1
Pets Abroad 2 –
Carnage in Kitwe
My life in Toilets -
Part 2
My Life in Toilets –
Part 1
Pets Abroad
Corporate
entertaining 3 – Could end in divorce!
Corporate
entertaining 2 - A few painful lessons learned
Beware the Bearded
Scotsman - SPAA Dinners
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Frank Sinatra
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Michael O’Leary...
Brushes with the Rich
and Famous– Richard Branson.
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Naomi Campbel
Brushes with the Rich
and Famous – Conference Moderators.
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Royalty
Paupers in Paradise
Peril on Planes 2
Stranger than fiction
Peril on Planes 1
The Sleeping Salesman
Our Colin got a Nasty
Rash in Brazil.
Pets on Planes. Part
3
Welcome to Lagos
Pets on planes. Part
2
Pets on Planes. Part
1.
A truly sickening
idea
Ladies of the Night
A Distressed Salesman
in Paris
Getting an Upgrade. A
matter of Life and Death?
An Innocent in Brazil
– Part 1
Entertaining Foreign
Dignitaries - Part 1
A Blogger in Paradise
-Majorca- Part 4
A Blogger in Paradise
–Majorca- Part 3
A Blogger in Paradise
–Majorca -Part 2
A Blogger in Paradise
–Majorca -Part 1
Dining Out on
Business Travel - Part 6
Dining Out on
Business travel - Part 5
Dining Out on
Business Travel – Part 4
Dining out on
Business Travel - Part 3
Dining out on
Business Travel – Part 2
Dining Out on
Business Travel – Part 1
A Secure Life Abroad
– Part 6
A Secure Life Abroad
- Part 5
A Secure Life Abroad
- Part 4
A Secure Life Abroad
– Part 3
My life in Hotels -
Part 4
My life in hotels –
Part 3
My Life in Hotels
Part 2
My life in hotels
Part 1
My life in Bars -
Part2
My Life in Bars -
Part 1
A Blogger in Paradise
- Maldives
Children Behaving
Badly - Unmins
Passengers Behaving
badly – Concorde
A Secure Life Abroad
2 - Zambia
A Secure Life Abroad
1
Pets Abroad 2 –
Carnage in Kitwe
My life in Toilets -
Part 2
My Life in Toilets –
Part 1
Pets Abroad =Part 1
Corporate
entertaining 3 – Could end in divorce!
Corporate
entertaining 2 - A few painful lessons learned
Beware the Bearded
Scotsman - SPAA Dinners
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Frank Sinatra
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Michael O’Leary...
Brushes with the Rich
and Famous– Richard Branson.
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Naomi Campbel
Brushes with the Rich
and Famous – Conference Moderators.
Brushes with the rich
and famous – Royalty
Paupers in Paradise
Peril on Planes 2
Stranger than fiction
Peril on Planes 1
The Sleeping Salesman
Our Colin got a Nasty
Rash in Brazil.
Pets on Planes. Part
3
Welcome to Lagos
Pets on planes. Part
2
Pets on Planes. Part
1.
A truly sickening
idea
Ladies of the Night
BUSINESS COMMENT
A Travel Policy’s
Biggest Barrier
Low Cost Airlines -
Honeymoon Over?
Travel Supply Chain
Intelligence
ASK me a QUESTION
A Christmas Message
Travel Report
Anguilla
A London Airport
Solution?
So Will Airlines go
Direct Connect or Not?
A Distribution
Prediction
Do we need another Industry
Association?
What the Customer
Really Wants? – Part 1
Who is the customer
around here anyway?
Can TMC Brain Power
Still Save Money?
Combined Airline
Deals – Good or Bad?
Travel Evolution is
not just about Technology – Right?
Travel Services –
Buying is just the beginning.
Anybody Understand
the Corporate Hotel Market?
Getting back to
basics with business travellers
What happens when
TMCs become GDS
Better to never have
something than see it taken away?
The Evolution of Air
Distribution – The Story so Far
What does a hotel
brand really mean?
Direct Connect – The
first significant skirmish in a long campaign.
Loyalty Cards – What
value?
Christmas
Distribution Story - 2
A Christmas
Distribution Story
You don’t get ‘owt
for nowt’ in travel distribution.
BA dispute – Pride
and promises
GDS/Airline issue.
Coming to a head?
A Take on AA
Distribution Issues
SEP Data Provision - Sounds Easy?
Just how much would
you Disclose?
Can TMCs Really
Influence Business?-Switch selling...
Travel Compliance –
So very easy.
Can TMCs Really
Influence Business? – Deals
Can TMCs really
influence business?
Why small is becoming
big in Business Travel.
A different approach
to TMC negotiations
Global Travel Programmes
– Delivering?
Airlines and Travel
Management Companies (TMC)
Airline marriages?
Call for Jerry Springer.
Travel and the
Environment
Do academics
understand the real world
Is Government Buying
Wisely?
Who should buy
travel? (Part two)
Who should buy
travel? (Part one)
The Beat Live. Boy
what a Blast
A Distribution
Prediction
Do we need another
Industry Association?
What the Customer
Really Wants? – Part 1
Who is the customer
around here anyway?
READERS FORUM
Can TMC Brain Power
Still Save Money?
Combined Airline
Deals – Good or Bad?
Travel Evolution is
not just about Technology – Right?
Travel Services –
Buying is just the beginning.
Anybody Understand
the Corporate Hotel Market?
Getting back to
basics with business travellers
What happens when
TMCs become GDS
Better to never have
something than see it taken away?
The Evolution of Air
Distribution – The Story so Far
What does a hotel
brand really mean?
Direct Connect – The
first significant skirmish in a long campaign.
Loyalty Cards – What
value?
Christmas
Distribution Story - 2
A Christmas
Distribution Story
You don’t get ‘owt
for nowt’ in travel distribution.
BA dispute – Pride
and promises
GDS/Airline issue.
Coming to a head?
A Take on AA
Distribution Issues
Data Provision -
Sounds Easy?
Just how much would
you Disclose?
Can TMCs Really
Influence Business?-Switch selling...
Travel Compliance –
So very easy.
Can TMCs Really
Influence Business? – Deals
Can TMCs really
influence business?
Why small is becoming
big in Business Travel.
A different approach
to TMC negotiations
Global Travel
Programmes – Delivering?
Airlines and Travel
Management Companies (TMC)
Airline marriages?
Call for Jerry Springer.
Travel and the
Environment
Do academics
understand the real world
Is Government Buying
Wisely?
Who should buy
travel? (Part two)
Who should buy
travel? (Part one)
Travel Evolution is
not just about Technology – Right?
My Greatest 'Hits'
Travel Services –
Buying is just the beginning.
Anybody Understand
the Corporate Hotel Market?
Getting back to
basics with business travellers
What happens when
TMCs become GDS
Better to never have
something than see it taken away?
The Evolution of Air
Distribution – The Story so Far
What does a hotel
brand really mean?
Direct Connect – The
first significant skirmish in a long campaign.
Loyalty Cards – What
value?
Christmas
Distribution Story - 2
A Christmas
Distribution Story
You don’t get ‘owt
for nowt’ in travel distribution.
BA dispute – Pride
and promises
GDS/Airline issue. Coming to a head?
A Take on AA Distribution Issues
Data Provision - Sounds Easy?
Just how much would you Disclose?
Can TMCs Really Influence Business?-Switch selling...
Travel Compliance –
So very easy.
Can TMCs Really
Influence Business? – Deals
Can TMCs really
influence business?
Why small is becoming
big in Business Travel.
A different approach
to TMC negotiations
Global Travel
Programmes – Delivering?
Airlines and Travel
Management Companies (TMC)
Airline marriages?
Call for Jerry Springer.
Travel and the
Environment
Do academics
understand the real world
Is Government Buying
Wisely?
Who should buy
travel? (Part two)
Who should buy
travel? (Part one)
