Thus the package holiday where all except booze was paid for in sterling at home.
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Both travel companies have now completed the repatriation of their package holiday customers, they said.
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Consumers in neighbouring Slovakia, for instance, are five times less likely to buy a package holiday than are Czechs, a difference not entirely explained away by Slovakia's poorer economy.
According to Prof Tilli Tansey, a medical historian at Queen Mary University of London, who has studied the unit, it became an oddly popular form of package holiday during the post-war years.
Sir Doug's knighthood in the New Year Honours was a recognition not of his distinguished business career (though he was one of the founding fathers of the package holiday industry), but of his services to a wide range of charities.
North Goa, best known for its package holiday- and party-friendly resorts of Calangute, Baga and Candolim, as well as its flea market at hippyish Anjuna, also offers a whole host of atmospheric delights for those keen to experience a slice of life of an older, more "authentic" Goa.
The main British package-holiday operators have already stopped flying customers to Mexico.
Heidiland supremo Urs Kamber got in first with his heavily marketed Heidiland Holiday package.
Their holiday package included entry into several events - the women's downhill, curling, ice hockey, figure skating, free dance, freestyle aerials and the Nordic combined.
And there is some talk of possibly rolling it into one little holiday package -- the extenders, the UI benefits extension, as well as payroll tax cuts -- just do it all at once, Christmas tree it.
Accordingly, UPS projected its holiday season package deliveries to grow 10% y-o-y to 527 million.
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Markets opened down Monday morning, signaling the anticipation for a bailout package for Ireland and a holiday week in the U.S. that will see the first major holiday shopping day of the year with Black Friday.
The only trouble is that many skiers, and the all important package tour operators, simply have not responded by shifting their holiday habits.
Cruises have become increasingly popular with UK holiday makers over recent years, now accounting for one in 10 package holidays.
Package delivery companies added 42, 000 employees, a large proportion of whom were no doubt sacked once the online holiday shopping season ended.
The bailout package announcement Sunday offset the optimistic sales reports that were flowing in from retail stores over the U.S. holiday weekend.
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