July 2010

Idle talk
‘It wasn’t an AIG corporate retreat’
It was good catching up with Maritz Travel buyer, Tim Bruins, at IMEX in Frankfurt last month. Of course Bruins shied away from commenting anything about the AIG corporate retreat at St Regis in California, which the US motivation house had organised. When we asked him about it, he only smiled and we did not lose our interview, which he kindly obliged despite a hectic schedule.
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Tough love in tough times
It looks like a certain player in the tourism trade is still enduring a tight budget, judging by the extent of generosity it offered – of all people – its top supporters.
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Live the story
Fans of Elizabeth Gilbert’s best-selling novel, Eat, Pray, Love, and the subsequent film adaptation starring Julia Roberts, who are inspired to follow in the author’s footsteps will be heartened to know they would not have to spend a bomb travelling to Italy, India and Indonesia.
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