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Standards – How do we maintain high standards in the face of cut-price travel and the dross it creates?

Tourism is a fashion business and its clients are rather like lemmings in that they all want to go to the same place at the same time.  This year, for those who can afford to go there, it’s Burma. The mass market, at the other end of

The Late Late Show – the true cost of Sunvil Greece deals

There is always a price at which the mass-market books late holidays (two to three weeks before departure) and currently that seems to be at around £150 to £180 per person for one week including flights, transfers and self-catering accommodation. These prices do not only apply to

The downside of flying on no-frills flights…

Noel Josephides blog post about the perils of flying no frills.

Visiting Greece, meeting up with our reps – and the Nemean Games, 23rd June!

Sunvil managing director Noel Josephides blog post on visiting Greece, our representatives and the Nemean Games.

Dog sledding in Swedish Lapland

February 2012 I have always been a little nervous of dog sledding; I have visions of the dogs taking control and rushing off in the direction they want to go rather than where I want them to take me. In fact, the hardest part of it is

Who can you trust?

I have a friend who advertises several properties that he rents out privately on some of the well-known European villa owners’ sites.  He is retired so has plenty of time to reply to enquiries and to monitor exactly where enquiries are coming from and how his –

Noel Josephides – An Insider’s View

Noel Josephides writes a fortnightly article for the travel trade publication ‘Travel Bulletin’ February 5 2010 I HAVE JUST returned from a week on avery rainy and cold Cyprus. The weather across the globe has becomeso unpredictable. First it’s winter temperatures in the high 20s and then