NICK TREND CONSUMER TRAVEL EXPERT

Telegraph readers show their huge appetite for variety, while also proving some good things remain the same

IQt’s an adage in travel that your favourite European city and you only hear from your Moscow may have only come 19th in customers when things the list, but it beat Berlin, Amsterdam, go wrong. Certainly at Madrid and Paris (in that order). Telegraph Travel the vast Your ratings for tour operators, majority of letters, calls from rail specialists to escorted tours, and emails come from also reveal the extent of readers’ huge readers who have a appetite for variety – both in the places complaint about their holiday or are you like to visit and the way in which looking for redress of some kind. you like to travel. But one of the

We do our best to help where we results that also particularly intrigues can, highlighting bad pr actice and me is your verdict on the world’s naming the worst offenders with the airlines. It is fascinating, for example, aim of shaming them into behaving uitetosismeepltyh,eits’suycocuesrs of Jet2.com, which better. But we also need you, our favotouprsittehdeetsatbinleatoiofnshboyrt-haul carriers, readers, to help us with the positives. far,wpherileenRnyiaalnlyatirop–pdiensgpite its remarkable And that is the point of our travel ourarbeialidtyertso’ pfioll lsaenatds – is once more awards. Your votes and assessments signgilfiuceadnttolythaheebaodttoofm of the table. are the only way to be sure which everyBortihtiesrhcAouirnwtraysinis even more of an companies are doing a good job and theewnoigrmlda. A. All foofrymouer winner of the offering decent value for money whsohgoort-hhearuelocnatheogloidrayy, it now struggles overall, as well as the beslot vweaiyt.tOoukrnsouwrveyindmoeisdn-t’tabgolei,nwtohtilheefor longer flights which destinations you hwahveyseannjodywedherefoitrseps,ebrufotrNmeawnce is disappointing. most. They also reveal yoZueralcahnadn’sgginregat strVeinrgitnh,siatrselosnelgf-term rival, holds tastes and new enthusiasemvisd.ent: its wonderigfuhltlhanpdlasceap–ebsu, t BA is 34th, beaten

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