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The old fashioned ways of tour operators

April 14, 2008

Interesting opinion piece by Simon Calder, travel editor at the Independent, on why tour operators provide holidays in the way that they do.

Why, he asks, don't operators incentivise customers to pay up front and why do they still issue paper tickets?

Martin Couzins, online editor

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