Look, I love modern Greece. Since my wife and I met, what, 28 years ago now, we’ve usually spent a month every year in Greece. And I love Ancient Greece. As a teenage boy I was enraptured by Plato’s dialogues of Socrates. (Although, in hindsight, I’m not altogether sure why…
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THE isles of Greece! the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace,— Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. – Lord Byron, The Isles of Greece A stone’s throw…
Strategic positioning in the leisure travel industry Part I attracted something of a cathartic outpouring of lengthy correspondence from a number of travel industry veterans. Some of the points made were: Tour operators were burdened with legacy cost structures while the LCC’s started with a blank sheet of paper. Over-…
Strategic positioning in the leisure travel industry Part I Not so very long ago, European leisure travel was dominated by the Foreign Package Holiday sector, itself dominated by a handful of behemoths. We called it the ‘wine glass model’. At the base were tens of thousands of benighted accommodation suppliers,…