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	<title>Roger Collis &#187; Words</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>When the train beats the plane</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/08/22/when-the-train-beats-the-plane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surprise, surprise! 70% of business travelers prefer to travel by train, according to a survey conducted by the British Guild of Travel Management Companies (GTMC) for their latest business travel manifesto; while 66% says they would rather take the train than fly to a destination for a meeting or conference, if the journey time and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space tourism 1997: Ready for liftoff?</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/08/04/space-tourism-1997-ready-for-liftoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t pack your bags yet. But serious people in the aerospace and travel industry are taking the idea of space tourism seriously. Pundits predict that the first space tourists could be in orbit by 2005. Tourists would travel by &#8220;space plane&#8221; to &#8220;space hotels&#8221; 200 to 300 miles (320 to 480 kilometers) above Earth. NASA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paws for thought</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/07/30/paws-for-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to separate fact and fiction these days.
A letter from Joan Draper in Ramat Gan, Israel tells of her dog Turtle creating mayhem in transit at Paris Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, when he escaped from his unlocked cage, might have been a scene from Keystone Cops.   To lock or not to lock the cage of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In search of the ‘boutique experience’</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/07/14/in-search-of-the-%e2%80%98boutique-experience%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How often do travelers find the clichés of the glossy ads, and the PR hype, redeemed by that elusive amalgam of true friendliness, service, recognition, and efficiency that I call ‘hospitality,’ whether in hotels, airlines or cruise ships?
It is hard to find that authentic welcome, a true home from home, to coin another cliché; it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upbeat in the downturn</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/07/09/upbeat-in-the-downturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I offer no prescient predictions about business travel in the downturn. Or in the upturn as travel rebounds, as it always does.   Like economic forecasters, I can only react to events with sapient hindsight and reflect on the past mistakes of others.
But it’s an ill wind as they say… And indeed, the economic downturn has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to run a boutique hotel</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/07/07/how-to-run-a-boutique-hotel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Bea Tollman – founder and president of Red Carnation Hotels.
RC: Could we please talk about what I like to call the ‘boutique experience’ and what it means to you?
BT: Well, the boutique experience to me is the fact that people feel they are almost walking into a home where the welcome is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the headhunter calls</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/06/07/when-the-headhunter-calls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The courtship ritual invariably starts with a discreet phone call.
‘Are you free to talk? We’re looking for a marketing vice president for a biotech group in Geneva.’ (There follows a mouthwatering description of your dream job.) ‘Do you know anybody who’d be suitable? You mean, you might be interested yourself?  Why, that’s terrific…’
With a budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleepwalking sets off alarms</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/06/05/sleepwalking-sets-off-alarms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few things are more disconcerting on a trip than to wake up in a hotel room, and for a few bewildering seconds wondering where I am, which hotel, which city, why am I there?   Even which day it is, never mind the time.
But a release from British budget hotel chain Travelodge, reporting that sleepwalking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking outside the box</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/06/05/thinking-outside-the-box/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:01:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have all been there: Stuck in a windowless meeting room, fighting to keep awake, surreptitiously checking our e-mails,  letting the imagination roam behind half-closed eyes and lips  tightly pursed to judiciously steepled hands, or even thinking about lunch, or plans for the evening, or making mental lists. 
So I was intrigued to read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marseille: a taste of Africa, a taste of Provence</title>
		<link>http://www.rogercollis.co.uk/2010/05/24/marseille-a-taste-of-africa-a-taste-of-provence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 22:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marseille is a city waiting to be discovered for itself not for its fearsome reputation – notably among people who have never been there – as a hotbed of crime, corruption, drug-dealing and social conflict. And indeed, this grand old Mediterranean port of 800,000 people – second largest city in France – still grand in [...]]]></description>
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