CONTENTS

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)