a couple of points..
CT said *largely*, not *all*
Yes Crawley is a toss hole, I've had the joy of visiting relatives living in that area for decades so have seen it change from the days when a café in the town centre was a biker hang out.
If you choose to say about visiting Capetown that it would be better to ignore red lights and keep your windows up; 1. you wouldn't be far from the truth. 2. you're perfectly entitled to voice your opinion without the outrage bus making a stop.
It's hardly obnoxious, rude, disrespectful or morally sanctimonious to state that there are different markets in travel and tourism, it's fact. There are market sectors catered toward the get drunk and turn red in the sun, 'straw donkey' holiday makers and the family market or 50's markets or has that market segmentation passed you by in advertising ?
With the severe lack of disposable income in the economy, travel and tourism is getting hit hard and it will continue to get hit hard for a few more years yet. It's not pretty and it doesn't bode well for this industry, coupled with the fact that governments across the EU, the UK included are set against raising ever more taxation revenue from this industry and punishing it for it's very existence.
In this environment markets will contract significantly and as such tour operators need, must define their market segmentation and establish their product.
Growth is one thing, but stability is even more important, without stability nothing is certain.
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