Where has the month of January gone ? I can hardly believe that it is almost over. I´m pleased to report that 2010 has started with a bang at Totally Spain. Daily we are receiving requests from many people who want to travel to Spain this year. Things are a lot more active than they were in January of last year. Perhaps 2009 has left us all needing a fiesta or even a siesta ? Let´s hope so! The variety of enquiries we´ve been receiving from individuals and groups have been extremely interesting and has certainly kept us busy and challenged. It´s a good sign and will hopefully continue.
FITUR, the major Spanish travel trade fair, was held last week. Olaia from our office travelled to Madrid to attend. There was a lot of uncertainty in the air as to how this year will unfold. A general feeling prevailed that there would continue to be competitive deals available to travellers with lower prices and plenty of early booking discounts. We´ve been seeing it too at Totally Spain with hotels of all grades offering exceptional bargains to those who book early. The same for rail travel in Spain. Book early and you´ll get a good deal. Domestic air travel too in Spain has come down significantly with the arrival of low cost airlines such as Easyjet, Ryanair and Vueling. Flying between major Spanish cities such as Barcelona, Girona, Madrid, Granada, Malaga, Seville, Santander and Bilbao has never been as affordable and it has certainly opened up a lot of possibilities for travellers whose time in Spain is limited. This has helped us greatly in being able to offer our clients more extensive, value for money itineraries regardless of the amount of time they have to spend in Spain.
Later this year Totally Spain will celebrate 10 years in business and a decade of organising quality travel in Spain. It´s an important milestone for us and one which I am extremely proud of. There´ll be more about our 10th anniversary later but as we go forward we´re striving to become more effective at communicating with those people who have an interest in travel in Spain as well as those people who have travelled with us or might be thinking about travelling with us. So, we´ve now become active on Social Media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and shortly on YouTube. I have to admit that we´re still learning the ropes but we appreciate that these mediums are here to stay and can be very effective. Therefore I´d like to invite everyone who reads this and is interested, to join us on the aforementioned sites (see right margin for links) and, if you wish, to share with us any topics or questions that you might like us to deal with.
Well, that´s it for now. Don´t forget that Valentines Day falls on a weekend this year. There´s still time to organise a romantic trip to Spain.
Hasta luego.
Ken
