Libra Holidays pays older debts

Hoteliers in Cyprus have finally received payments for the year 2008. Debts Libra Holidays created in 2008 are now, after a year, being paid by the new owners of Libra.

In spring 2008 Vasilis and Aimon, two directors , from the central offices of Libra in the UK were touring Cyprus agreeing with hoteliers the final debts for the season 2008. Various hoteliers have got their money (if not all a big percentage at least) and some of those hoteliers have cancelled commitment contacts for the current season (2009) since they are afraid of a second big time bankruptcy of Allbury Travel Group. The market in Cyprus has lost all the confidence in the company run by Andreas Drakou and his partners. The financial whole created in 2007 is still too big despite that court cases were won in Cyprus. Specifically a hotelier was very surprised to see that after winning the court case the court clearing agent went to the offices of Libra Holidays in Limassol but came back with empty hands since Libra was basically a ghost company without any assets, not even the office furniture belong t them.

If you are a hotelier I would suggest you contact Vasilis and / or Aimon at +44 871 226 7838 at Libra Holidays C/o Castle House 21 Station Road New Barnet Hertfordshire EN5 1PH or email at admin@allburytravelgroup.com and try to get your money for the year 2008 and think about accepting bookings from them. In my opinion the only bookings you could accept is pre-paid bookings before customer arrival.

Quality Tourist Facilities in Cyprus

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Panic in the Cyprus Tourism Industry

For the last two week we have been hearing different and many complaints about the way Cyprus Tourism is facing the financial crisis.

1. The government blames the hoteliers for not lowering prices after the state spent 52 million Euros in measures of Tourism Support.

Well 52 million is peanuts Mr. Minister. You should be ashamed mentioning them. Make numbers and see how much is per bed and these measures are indirect. Not one cent on improving quality, only seeking mass tourism with price reductions. So I suggest you stay away from the microphones.

2. The Hotel associations calling the Minister of Finance ignorant and asking him to rectify his declarations.

Dear Colleagues, please be sensible and look back to your declarations some months ago when you have been applauding the government for the “support” they offered, oh well it was before the euro elections.

3. The consumers associations complain that prices of coffees and beers are more expensive in Cyprus than in Piazza San Marco in Venice.

Good morning gentlemen, it seems that the you have never travelled abroad, or when you do travel you do not pay for your coffees and beers. I forgot the Cypriot consumer does pay your coffees and beers.

4. This shit has hit the fan in unemployment. Hotels are laying off their staff since bookings are more than 35% down.

Hello guys, wake up, bookings could be much better if in winter instead of crying you were upgrading your services and especially your ONLINE services. Mr. Google, Mr. Digg, Mr. Blogg, Mr. Social Media and many others do not know that you even exist, so twenty million travellers that use the services of those gentlemen IGNORE YOU.

I sugest we all stop complaining and start acting. In the meantime the demand on “Karpaz” , “Magusa”, “Girne” etc is sky – high, so I would ask you to act yesterday, ACT do not REACT. The previously mentioned destinations are very well known to the gentlemen mentioned above and to their users.

ACT for tourism Sake, ACT because we will end like the show and clothing industry in Cyprus in the early nineties.

We need clean roads, we need clean and accessible beaches, we need clean archaeological areas, we need nice museums, we need friendly personnel, we need to finish Larnaca Airport, we need to regulate Taxis and get real public transport, we need recycling factories, we need to work a lot and most of the things we need to do are FREE, they cost no money.

Cyprus is the second biggest market after the UK for Cyprus Tourism

I would like to thank Sigma TV that last night brought to the screens of the Cypriots what this company (Avantless) has been saying since the 11th of April 2009.

The amazing thing is that none of the Hotel Associations or anyone sitting around the discussion table last night (Thursday 11th June) during the show called 60 minutes is an active user of the internet, none of the people who was there last night can imagine that the internet has just begun to act in the world of tourism and that is the internet today is about people and not about Information and computers.

Both hotel associations (which I deeply respect) have made any efforts to sell their hotel members online in an effective, up to date and especially profitable manner. I do not blame neither the presidents nor the managers of the associations, I just think that they need to be more informed and defiantly be more flexible when it comes to take online decisions.

Practicing Customer Scare April 11th 2009 read the full article here.

Cyprus Tourism Destination and Nature

Once upon a time there was a country in the Mediterranean where you could swim in crystal waters, where you could walk in its green fields, where you could taste the real taste of its veggies, where you could get better water from the taps than from the bottles, where you could pickup mushrooms on its mountains and valleys, where you could meet foxes in its forests, where you could watch eagles in its skies where you could not find rubbish in its forests.

Now in this country you find this….

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