IT was not all sun, sea and XXX for a couple of ABTA delegates.
Poor old Nigel Adams, of DNA Travel, had just got comfortable in his raft for a day’s white-water fun when disaster struck.
A sharp jolt to the inflatable left him with a dislocated shoulder and forced him to retire early. Fortunately, the Queensland Ambulance Service was on hand to pull him from the rapids.
Meanwhile ABTA’s head of corporate affairs Keith Betton gave an insight into his home life at the opening press conference.
Talking about the distance from the UK to Australia, Betton claimed long-haul flying was like sex: “It’s frightening until you’ve done it and then once you’ve done it, it’s really quite boring,” he claimed.
Not surprisingly, and luckily for Keith, Esther Betton was nowhere to be seen.