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Article: Travel: Passport to Travel.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2003
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If you want a top value holiday in the sun in the final weeks of the summer season before October 31, head for Turkey and Greece.
That's the advice of tour operators who admit they have taken a terrible drubbing this year from shrewd, penny-pinching holidaymakers. Their battle to push prices higher has been sunk by travellers booking at the last minute.
Platon Loizou, managing director of Turkey specialist operator Jewel in the Crown, says: 'It's nerves of steel time for operators who reduced early season capacity following the Iraq conflict and then found ...