HOW DOES ORIGINAL TRAVEL MANAGE ITS FOREIGN CURRENCY AND WILL I EVER HAVE TO PAY MORE THROUGH SURCHARGES?
Original Travel manages its foreign currency requirements very closely and follows a prudent hedging strategy designed a) to protect our clients from the horrors of surcharging (more on that later), and b) to protect ourselves from any nasty shocks on currency movement. We are, as far as we know, one of the only tour operators, big and small, to have said (live in BBC in mid-2007) that we won’t surcharge clients post booking. We hear endless stories of clients being approached by other operators for four figure surcharges. Believe it or not, these operators are legally allowed to do this. By protecting the downside we don’t have to and can therefore stand by our statement on BBC. As you can imagine we have not made many friends in the industry as a result!
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