Funemployed glampers could boost recession-hit travel firms is the latest view of the Irish Times...
Bad economic times could offer a boost to a travel industry willing to embrace the “funemployed”, tourism providers have been told...
The concept of the funemployed was outlined by Thalia Pellegrini, presenter of the BBC’s Fast:track travel programme, at Fáilte Ireland’s national tourism conference in Dublin. She said the term was coined to describe recently unemployed people who are using their free time to travel...
“This group is tempted by unprecedented travel deals and have a now-or-never attitude towards travelling,” she said. “Most have severance packages to cushion the blow, and more than half of those unemployed in North America are under the age of 35, mainly single, without children or a mortgage.”
So, no job? Things getting to you? Then you too could be funemployed...
For more information please follow http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2009/1121/1224259216736.html
Barticus.
Bad economic times could offer a boost to a travel industry willing to embrace the “funemployed”, tourism providers have been told...
The concept of the funemployed was outlined by Thalia Pellegrini, presenter of the BBC’s Fast:track travel programme, at Fáilte Ireland’s national tourism conference in Dublin. She said the term was coined to describe recently unemployed people who are using their free time to travel...
“This group is tempted by unprecedented travel deals and have a now-or-never attitude towards travelling,” she said. “Most have severance packages to cushion the blow, and more than half of those unemployed in North America are under the age of 35, mainly single, without children or a mortgage.”
So, no job? Things getting to you? Then you too could be funemployed...
For more information please follow http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2009/1121/1224259216736.html
Barticus.
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