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Out & about
The lighter side of travel
The highs and
pillows of travel
HOTELS.COM has a romantic outlook on life. The
online retailer has launched “Picture Pillows”, a
service for business travellers to have a picture
of their loved one printed on to a pillow case.
It claims a survey of business travellers found
58% said their partner or loved one was the
thing they missed most when away from home.
W
OULD
Picture Pillows enables travellers to drift off
YO
U to sleep next to their loved one even when they
BELIEVE
are away from home. Hotels.com’s Alison Couper
IT!?
described Picture Pillows as a “reminder of home
that will bring a smile to those business travellers
Ocean Village has a bright idea
who have to be away from friends and family”.
Alternatively, some suspicious spouses might
regard it as the perfect Christmas present to
YOU know what it’s like. You’re industriously This year’s visit was celebrity-free but no less give their travelling partners to keep them in
getting on with your work, minding your own head turning, particularly for passers-by on mind when away on business.
business – and a bloke painted purple and an Blackfriars Bridge, where our colourful visitors
orange girl appear in your office. staged a photo shoot.
No, it’s not the latest Tango advert, but the Pictured here is TTG editor Lucy Huxley, who
now-annual, pre-Christmas visit from our just happened to be caught reading the new
Tax relief was
friends at Ocean Village. Ocean Village brochure as the line’s boss Nick
Last year, they arrived with celebrity chef Lighton dropped by to say hello.
James Martin in tow, as the line promoted its Mr Purple and Ms Orange certainly made no death duty
latest brochure release and new year sales their mark on a dreary Thursday morning, not
campaign. least on the office chairs on which they sat. AMID the general outrage at the big increases
in Air Passenger Duty announced by the
chancellor last week, there were some in
the aviation world who felt relieved.
Short-haul airlines got off lightly compared
with long-haul operators, but it was all relative.
As one airline executive said: “It was a bit
like terrorists had threatened to come round
to kill me and my family and burn our house to
the ground, but in the end only knee-capped
me. So I’m felling pretty pleased about it.”
NCL OF A PRIZE: Not to be outdone, Norwegian
Cruise Line also sent 3,000 calendars to agents this
week. The NCL calendar promotes the line’s Xmas quiz
in which agents can win a mini-cruise and other prizes
including a Wii Fit to help shed those excess pounds.
SLEIGH TO GO: The popularity of cruising has never been higher, but it looks as if even
Santa is jumping on the bandwagon. This year’s Princess Cruises advent calendar, sent out
to agents last week, featured Mr Claus spreading festive joy astride a Princess ship.
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