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Sat 11 Nov 2009Funemployed glampers could boost recession-hit travel firms
MONEY-SAVING TRENDS:THE RECESSION could offer a boost to a travel industry willing to embrace the “funemployed”, tourism providers have been told.
The concept of the funemployed was outlined by Thalia Pellegrini, presenter of the BBC’s Fast:tracktravel programme, at Fáilte Ireland’s national tourism conference in Dublin. She said the term was coined to describe recently unemployed people who are using their free time to travel.
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