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| Jacy Meyer, e-Blok, Ltd. Marketing | jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 21/12/2007 |
| Girls Just Want To Have Fun! |
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Girls Just Want To Have Fun
More ladies traveling to Eastern Europe with friends
It’s a fact: girls need their friends. And with packed schedules and full diaries, it’s often quite difficult to squeeze in that much needed gal pal time. Smart ladies are doing it right: planning weekends away with their friends.
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| Jacy Meyer | e-Blok marketing team | jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 28/09/2007 |
| Bringing Brits to the Beer |
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Pissup.com introduces Berlin Pissup
Pissup.com, Eastern Europe’s largest party organiser, continues to expand its operations in the region. With travel statistics showing a trend towards friend and other group getaways* Pissup.com is helping to satisfy that need to travel by opening its sixth destination.
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| Jacy Meyer | e-Blok marketing team | jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 25/09/2007 |
| The Cure for What Ails You |
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Brooding Brits look to travel to cheer up
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Or take a holiday. A new study out by Expedia.co.uk shows when the going gets rough, a majority of Brits are heading out of town.
Being fired, dumped or getting hit with a mid-life crisis seems to be as good as reason as any to take a trip.... |
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| Jacy Meyer / jacy.meyer@e-blok.com. Rasmus Christiansen, Pissup.dk / rasmus@pissup.dk - 30/07/2007 |
| The Vikings are Coming! |
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Eastern Europe the Destination as UK Travel Company Expands to Denmark
The Vikings used to regularly invade Eastern Europe to enjoy a spot of pillaging, drinking and womanising. This has gone out of fashion in the last hundred years or so… until now. With the start of Pissup Denmark (www.pissup.dk), a new Danish travel service... |
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| jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 16/05/2007 |
| Friends Take Flight |
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Single-sex holidays taking off
Instead of spending their free time at the local pub or at a football match, busy people are making more time to holiday with their friends. New research out from Halifax Travel Insurance found in the past year, nearly nine million Brits left partners and/or families at home to travel with their... |
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| Adfero Ltd / Pissup.com - 11/04/2007 |
| Stag dos and break-ups drive singles-only travel boom |
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Nearly nine million Britons have chosen to ditch partners, friends and relatives of the opposite sex over the last 12 months and take a break with members of the same sex.
Over two-thirds more Britons opt for single-sex holidays today than would have done so five years ago, the research from Halifax Travel Insurance revealed.
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| Neil Smith - 06/10/2006 |
| They send us plumbers, we send them stags |
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They send us plumbers, we send them stags
Stag travel bucks the trend
Prague – 6 October 2006
Despite 2006 UK passenger numbers to popular destinations in Eastern Europe falling - eg. Prague down 2.5% (source 1), Budapest down 20% (source 2) - stag travel continues to buck this trend. This confirms that Eastern Europe is... |
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| e-Blok Ltd [owner of budapestpissup.com] - 29/09/2005 |
| Analysis of the stag and hen market 2005 |
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1. Overall breakdown of the market:
There’s 200,000 weddings/year in the UK = 200,000 hen parties and 200,000 stag parties a year = 400,000 parties in all.
Of this about 75% of parties stay in the UK (300,000) and 25% go abroad (100,000).
The average spend on a party is GBP 75/head staying in the UK and GBP 220/head going... |
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| The Scotsman / budapestpissup.com - 21/03/2005 |
| Hen nights '£551 a head', says Egg |
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THE trend for holding stag and hen nights abroad has pushed the average cost of going to one to £551 per person, according to a new report.
And the vogue for heading to destinations such as Barcelona, Prague, Dublin and Amsterdam has resulted in the British spending more than £400 million a year on celebrations.
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| Deloitte / budapestpissup.com - 20/09/2004 |
| Changing dynamics of tourism |
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The accession of the new countries from Eastern Europe to the EU is expected to change the dynamics of the tourism industry across Europe. According to The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), the new Eastern European members are expected to generate an additional US$54.6 billion in travel and tourism GDP and create some 3 million... |
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| Amcham / budapestpissup.com - 20/09/2004 |
| 2003 Tourism figures |
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Hungary played host to an estimated 5.4 million tourists between January and October 2003, according to public accommodation figures released by the government – which translated into a 2.2% fall from the same period one year ago. "Comparing 2002 with this year we can experience a slight decrease in the overnights in inbound tourism,"... |
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