Broken news

17Feb10

Another day, another desperate attempt by another travel website to get itself mentioned by publishing a so-called survey.

According to this one, “59% think the English bars and tourists in Spain make the destination ‘not foreign enough’”; “nearly half would take a trip to the USA on the off-chance of meeting a celebrity”; and “2 respondents were put off the idea of going to Tunisia because they were scared of camels”.

Fifty-nine per cent of how many? Nearly half of how many? If the travel site’s PR firm knows, it isn’t telling. I hope its staff are better at maths than they are at English. The survey, with its revelations about “Tourist’s reasons for their destination likes and dislikes”, is “FOR IMMEDIARTE RELEASE”. Hold the front page.


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