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	<title>Roger Collis &#187; Columns</title>
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	<description>Roger has earned world-wide recognition as a business travel guru through his weekly column, &#039;The Frequent Traveler,&#039; in the International Herald Tribune; and as a contributing columnist for the New York Times. He has been described as the dean of business-travel journalists in Europe, who ‘created the template for business-travel columns in newspapers worldwide.’ An actor and broadcaster, Roger provides the many voices offered by Voicesetcetera.com.</description>
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		<title>Recalling the good old days</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/11/06/recalling-the-good-old-days/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As John Millar sees it, business travel was a much more civilized experience 50 years ago. Especially flying.
Millar, a retired British aerospace manufacturer and former TWA captain (he flew DC-2s in 1935-6) is president of the World Solar Power Foundation. He now lives in Monte Carlo and has been an inveterate first-class traveler since 1936.
 ‘Prewar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to become a ‘mover and shaker’</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/06/17/how-to-become-a-%e2%80%98mover-and-shaker%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every executive looking for a short cut to the top pays attention to essential subjects, such as strategic wardrobe management; office politics and etiquette; resume expansion (as management guru Peter Drucker was fond of saying, ‘Don’t talk to me about the death of the novel as long as we have resumes’) and how to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going up in smoke</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/04/19/going-up-in-smoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 14:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I knew this was the big one when Madame dragged me along to the doctor to see about this ghastly bronchitis. After all, even a hypochondriac can get sick. I joke that a massive coronary would be a better way to go. And provided they don’t get to you in time, it doesn’t have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The airship: Cruise liner of the future or another dream?</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/02/23/the-airship-cruise-liner-of-the-future-or-another-dream/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 10:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/?p=851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The dateline was Lakehurst, New Jersey, May 6, 1937. At 7:23 P.M., the German zeppelin Hindenburg, docking after its first ocean crossing of the season, burst into flames, killing 36 people. The disaster ended the reign of the great airships. No matter that the nine-year- old Graf Zeppelin had retired that year after 144 uneventful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Getting There Takes Longer</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/02/10/why-getting-there-takes-longer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/?p=837</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BUSINESS travelers rate &#8220;punctuality&#8221; along with &#8220;convenient schedule&#8221; and &#8220;reputation for safety&#8221; as the three most important factors in choosing an airline, according to most surveys.
The Association of European Airlines, representing 26 carriers, reports that only 18 percent of all departures on scheduled flights in Europe in 1996 were delayed by more than 15 minutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meetingmanship</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/02/08/meetingmanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 23:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try to phone anybody these days and the chances are (once you’ve gone around the houses with ‘dial one if you know the extension number…’) you&#8217;ll get an earful of the xylophone version of Greensleeves, or a low-fi rendering of The Four Seasons by the Muzak Symphony Orchestra. Then the doom-laden words: &#8220;He&#8217;s in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Care</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/01/28/travel-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An airport is a stressful and emotionally charged place at the best of times, a confluence of expectation, disappointment, frustration, irritation and anger being played out across the whole repertoire of human behavior. But these are not the best of times. The apocalyptic events of Sept. 11 and ongoing horror in the skies since then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will ‘virtual’ travel become the new reality?</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/01/28/will-%e2%80%98virtual%e2%80%99-travel-become-the-new-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The travel industry is always talking about ‘transforming’ the travel experience which, for us poor punters, remains stubbornly and increasingly dire: Packed planes, crowded airports with delays and indignities, in the cause of the ‘war against terror’ have seen to that. Nice when you get there – if you get there.
Robert Louis Stevenson may have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frequent flier programs: 30 years old in 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2011/01/20/frequent-flier-programs-30-years-old-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/?p=818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frequent flier programs are probably the most successful marketing idea of all time. Since American Airlines launched AAdvantage, the world’s first FFP in 1981, more than 300 million travelers count miles with one or more of 200 airline programs worldwide, many of  which have scores of airline and non-airline partners, hotels, car rental firms and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EasyJet makes a play for the business traveler</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/12/09/easyjet-makes-a-play-for-the-business-traveler/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EasyJet’s trialling of ‘flexible tickets’ (announced in November, 2010) enabling travelers to change their flight up to two hours before scheduled departure time, is a bold play for a larger slice of the business travel market.  Currently, 18 percent of EasyJet’s passengers fly on business, according to new chief executive Carolyn McCall, who wants to raise [...]]]></description>
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