Beatrice Tollman, President and Founder of the Red Carnation Hotel Collection, a luxury collection of five and four-star family run boutique properties, has recently published a cookbook that is her memoir of “A Life in Food”, all proceeds of which will be going to her two favorite UK charities, the Starlight Children’s Foundation and The [...]
Where on earth will it end? Is a la carte pricing just the flavor of the month or the magic bullet of the decade? Or are the so-called ‘legacy’ carriers simply grasping at straws?
I was strutting my usual stuff at an ‘a la carte airline pricing’ conference the other day – that the airlines [...]
The Oyster Box: The re-birth of a legend
It’s not every day that legends are made (let alone re-born) – even in the hotel business! So the other day this brief, almost laconic item rose above the usual clutter:
‘Legendary hotel to reopen
Umhlanga Rocks, Durban Kwa-Zulu, Natal, South Africa
‘The Oyster Box, part of the Red [...]
Just to let everyone know that I’m doing more ‘voice’ work with podcasts and recorded interviews. And here’s a promotion I have been putting out. I have purchased the domain name Voicesetcetera.com which I hope to lionk up with Rogerand Randy.com.
I’ll keep you posted.
Roger Collis – Business travel guru; journalist, author, veteran corporate infighter; broadcaster; and [...]
Ryanair, the Irish bargain-basement airline, which excels only in deepening the no-frills experience, is now claiming to be ‘the world’s favorite airline’ – an appellation which for years was the proud strapline for British Airways. Ryanair claims to have carried twice the number of passengers than BA during the month of June.
Oh, how the [...]
Congratulations to Red Carnation Hotels (www.redcarnationhotels.com) for winning the ‘video category’ of the ‘2009 Travelmole UK web awards 2009’ with its ‘video tour’ of the Egerton House Hotel in London. You can view the 3-minute video (narrated by Roger Collis) at http://www.egertonhousehotel.com/your-stay/egerton-video-tour or winners of all 15 award categories at http://www.travelmole.com/news.php
Here’s my reply to a message from Peter Dielissen (fireweed@rogers.com) in Canada. Peter has accumulated enough miles with Air Canada’s Aeroplan program by buying goods on his credit card for some extensive premium air travel.
Peter,
That’s a great story; thanks so much for writing. I don’t know exactly which story of mine you read, but [...]
Long-haul flying (or short-haul, for that matter) sure isn’t a load of fun these days. But even the most jaded travelers should give serendipity another chance. It might bring some illusion, some whiff, of adventure back into the aircraft cabin.
Here’s how it works. See how many of these psychographic archetypes you can recognize on your [...]
I am getting more and more enquiries for ‘voice work,’ especially podcasts. So I put together this promo.
Hollywood here we come!
Roger Collis – Business travel guru; journalist, author, veteran corporate infighter; broadcaster; and ‘Man of Many Voices’ can provide the voice (and ideas) you need for:
-Podcasts: One-on-one recorded interviews of management personalities, employees, customers, clients, on any [...]
I’ve always tried to approach business travel from the point of view of the traveler, rather than that of the travel trade. Which means identifying with the traveler as a manager, an executive, struggling to survive in the Organization. Travel is just one more stress factor – thanks to congestion, hassle, degrading experiences at airports, [...]