The Amateur-Expert Traveller - Sponsored Whitepaper

Three important trends in travel which are being accelerated by the recession

In the summer of 2007, as the first cracks in Wall Street’s mighty financial edifice began to appear, a natural disaster was already well under way on the other side of the United States. Millions of acres of the American West were ablaze in what would turn out to be the second most destructive summer of forest fires since records began in 1960 1. On the other side of the Atlantic, the European Forest Fire Information System called July 2007 the worst on record.