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Dot com or dot con? Don’t be a victim of holiday fraud
Online fraud is a growing problem for the travel industry. Sunvil find the real country.
Stockholm: An affordable city break
Explore Stockholm on a city break with Sunvil. Find the real country.
Experience the Opera in Verona
Book a fantastic carefully crafted holiday in Verona, Italy with Sunvil Discovery. Find the real country
News from Cyprus…
News from Sunvil MD about holidays to Cyprus this summer
‘Flight Plus’ versus traditional Tour Operator or Travel Agent
Over the last week, the newspapers have been full of articles extolling the virtues of ‘flight-plus’ and how it is no longer necessary to book with a traditional, full-service tour operator or through a travel agent because the protection available through ‘flight-plus’ is identical. Well, that’s not
So why did a farmer turn to tourism?
Luis is a Cork Oak farmer. He farms a total of 900 hectares near Grandola in the Alentejo, that’s 2,223 acres or 3.47 square miles of cork trees. He is the vice president of the Cork Growers Association of Portugal, an expert in his field and the
The Revival of the Nemean Games
We stumbled upon the existence of the Revival of the Nemean Games through a throw-away comment from an archaeologist, Heinrich Hall, who has lived in Athens for 10 years. Having featured the Peloponnese since 1974 – in fact, that is where Sunvil’s programme to Greece originated –
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.