The ultimate book of travel trivia – you have to get one!

Sunday, 22 Jun, 2006 0

Would you like to know the answers to these travel trivia questions?

Which airline was the first to prohibit smoking on every flight (way back in 1987)?

At which hotel do you cross the Equator to get from the lobby to the restaurant?

Who invented the rolling suitcases that everyone carries onto planes nowadays?

Which cruise line offered the first trans-Atlantic sailings?

How many “United States” does the world hold?

What’s the southernmost town in the world?

How much would it cost today to rebuild the Great Wall of China?

Where will you find the world’s shortest drawbridge?

Yes?

Then you have to get a copy of the most amazing handbook of travel trivia, written by Nadine Godwin, one of the most experienced and respected journalists in the travel and tourism industry, with 33 years of reporting and editing at America’s leading travel trade newspaper.

This is the book that belongs in your backpack and briefcases and on the desks and bookshelf and you will stun colleagues and friends with your amazing knowledge of amazing facts and of course trivia!

Some leading industry personalities have endorsed Nadine’s book, including: –

Bob Dickinson, CTC, President and Chief Executive Officer of Carnival Cruise Lines – “The Ultimate Book of Travel Trivia’ offers a fun, interesting, and light-hearted look at some of the many people and places that make our industry so compelling.”

Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge, Chairman of Visit Britain and former Chairman of British Airways – “For years, Nadine Godwin has been a globally respected chronicler of the travel and tourism industry.” “In this book, she brings the travel business, its achievements, its people, and its idiosyncrasies entertainingly to life in an absorbing and informative way.”  “For all people who travel by land, sea, and air — or simply by armchair, it is recommended reading.”

So how do you get a copy?

Pls go to www.traveltriviabook.com 

It is a book you will not be able to put down once you start reading it!

Report by John Alwyn-Jones from ATE 2006



 



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