Firstly I would like to wish you all Happy New Year.
I decided not to make any personal New Years resolutions, they would only get broken as quickly as they were made! I also cannot get myself motivated to work on my fitness but thankfully I have a persistent trainer and ...
It is amazing what we would do for our friends and indeed what friends will do for us. Well more about that later.
I was privileged to be invited once again to be a Judge at the NatWest everywoman awards. What a hard task it is – such amazing and outstanding ...
If we ever had a summer it is now fast moving to autumn and nights are closing in. Whilst personally I enjoy the summer and longer light evenings on a business front this is the best time as we are launching some really exciting new holidays for 2011 and our ...
I’ve had a very exciting couple of weeks. Jordan Tourist Office had a military band playing at the Edinburgh Tattoo and so they invited a mix of travel industry and press to join them. I have been to the Tattoo before and think it is a spectacular show. When the ...
I love air travel but what makes me love it even more, is knowing the miles you can cover in a matter of hours. I say this, as we drove to Suffolk at the weekend- and it took us 4 hours to drive 12 miles by the Dartford tunnel. Yes ...
I am so excited about this evening. We invited all of our staff to join us for an evening of innovation and ideas. That is, we are not presenting to staff my ideas on innovation, we are asking for their support and ideas for their innovation. There will of course ...
We had such a great day on Wednesday. Some of us went off site for a brainstorm day. Sorry I know some readers hate that kind of phrase, so I will say blue sky thinking. Whilst one would always like to think they have innovative ideas and often these come ...
Well, we won the game yesterday!! England in the World Cup that is. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we won? I was pleased to see some of our Scottish staff watching the game- they would have to be really perverse if they watched and wanted Slovenia to win and really ...
I cannot, with any credibility, write this without mentioning the BA strike and the volcanic ash situation.
I do understand that every industry has its challenges and I can honestly say I don’t know enough about the adversities of many other industries. Apart from the challenges the recession has brought to ...
