In the travel business the rumour mill is a sweatshop. I don’t have to tell my darling pumpkins that this is an inbred industry where everybody has already worked everywhere and many of the same folks meet up far too regularly at alcohol-wielding events. It doesn’t take much for travel types to get their tongues tripping.
“Did you hear so-and-so got the axe at such-and-such?”
“Oh yeah. Probably cause of that weird thing he did on the cruise ship.”
“Which one?”
I swear, some of my Pumpkins know somebody’s leaving somewhere before the someone who’s going to can the somebody has even made the decision. It’s uncanny.
That’s a long way of saying here’s the latest scoop from the poop deck at Open Jaw. There’s more of course, but some things are less substantiated than others. I do have standards, as you know.
- Dean Moore is in as top dog at itravel2000
- Jonathan Carroll is still out at itravel2000, but he’s about to spring onto the scene again with a new retail venture – which will not be anything like his previous venture. OK?
- Everyone and their uncle has applied for Michael Pepper’s job at TICO. What? So they can get yelled at?
- But, wait... this just in... can anyone substantiate the evidence that has just been placed in my mudrucking hands? I am looking for corroboration of what is going down in these photos... Is it what it seems... it seldom is in this biz. Untrue to form, the dinkettes have clammed up on me.
- Finally, and sadly, Chuck Baltrunas died this week after a battle with leukemia. RIP
