World Travel Market - London, United Kingdom
Thought this would be the ideal opportunity to start a travel blog. Our team have just spent the last three days at the World Travel Market in London. We managed to meet most of our US agents and meet up with old friends - an excuse to have a couple of beers and be optomistic about 2006. Londons tour business has been pretty bleak since July 7th (bus bombs!) and many companies have struggled ever since. I know at least one company - Martins coaches trading as Royal Heritage tours have gone bust (kind of somes them right in a way as they copied our unique itineraries and even copied our literature) but seriously it has been a poor year for tourism this yeay. For the first time in ten years we have discounted our day tours (ten pound off! www.astraltravels.co.uk) We are now looking forward to next year.
We are a relativley small operation with emphasis on looking after our customers unlike the greedy big operators intent on whirlwind tours of britian and not giving a damn about customer service. We have 12 luxury vehicles and started up in 1995 with one crappy old minibus (anyone remember the early tours ??????) We have come along way since then but still like to think we are small enough to care and big enough to cope. The office is quiet at the moment so I though it would be a great time to strart this blog (all new to me) and we all are gonna take it in turns writing a daily paragraph or two and letting the world know about the workings of a small independant company in London - some of you may have seen the Office ? Not quite like that but it should be interesting to see what comes out of the team. We will endeavour to tell you about the industry in general, changes, british weather, travel updates, whos got hanmg overs etc etc and hopefully might encourages some of you to take one of our tours some day? Plus we will post one of these each day!
The phrase "One for the road" - During the middle ages and mediaeval period, the condemned were taken from London city gaols to Tyburn Hill for execution. En route, along what is today’s Oxford Street, the cart stopped and they were allowed one final drink at a country inn situated on the road. The ‘one’ they were drinking was for the road to death
posted by Londons Premier Tour Operator @ 10:43 AM
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