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Co-op Travel fights for supplement ban


Leeds Co-op Travel is urging the Government to introduce legislation banning single supplement holiday charges.


General manager Paul Daley has slammed the industry for failing to get its own house in order and wants the Government to axe the supplements.


“It’s a grossly unfair form of social discrimination. Operators are not using their collective muscle to do anything about it,” he said. “If one person sits at a table for two in a restaurant, they only pay for what they have had. There’s no charge for the empty seat.”


Daley is optimistic the Department of Trade and Industry could act on his letter sent last week. His request is part of a five-year campaign to scrap single supplements.


He admits some major operators are beginning to toy with ditching single supplements but has urged them to lobby hotels to drop the charges or to absorb them themselves.


Turkish family operator Holidays 4U managing director Karen Vyse said it can be difficult to get hoteliers to change their philosophy. However, the operator has negotiated deals with most of its hotels to waive single supplements for a set percentage of its hotel rooms.


A DTI spokesman said the Government has no plans to look at legislation banning single supplements as it believes there’s an economic argument for the charges.

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