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lilly:
I have got to agree with Jimbo on this one, most people will go with the best bargain unless of course they have pots of money and yes I am pretty certain that most hoteliers have much more money than we do.
If Thomsons did not supply holidays to SS and the only way to holiday there was on a DIY basis then you can bet that SS would not attract the many, many visitors that it gets each year and therefore hotel/apartment owners, tavernas, shops,vehicle rental, organisers of day trips and even those lovely people who rent out the sunbeds on the beach would suffer greatly and go out of business, there would simply not be enough holiday makers to make it pay, without Thomsons then I doubt the resort would survive very long. We always eat out on holiday both lunch and evening meal, drink in the bars, usually hire a vehicle, shop at the local shops and hire the sunbeds on the beach , I imagine lots of Thomsons holiday makers do likewise and support the locals by spending their money in resort.
If Thomsons and other holiday firms had never supplied holidays to SS then it would not be the successful village that it has grown into today.

Jimbo:
Thanks, lilly. Sorry if I sounded grumpy, but I doubt if the profitability in the village is actually in accommodation. I'm sure Thomson pay a ludicrously small amount to apartment owners - but we spend, as you rightly say, Lilly, plenty of money in the village on food, drink and fags when we're there. If we had to spend huge amounts on getting there we'd live on boiled eggs and drink tap-water.

If it were not for Thomson we would never have found Ag Stef. I'm sure they strike hard bargains - but their visitors alone pump millions of Euros into the village over the season. So it's a balance between having lots of people spending lots of money or fewer people paying a bit more towards having a bed. I'd be very surprised if the bar and taverna owners wanted to chuck Thomson out and rely upon the much more fragile DIY options.

I do dislike being treated as some kind of pariah for using Thomson versus DIY. 

lilly:
Hi Jimbo, don't think I could survive on boiled eggs and water and having to walk past all those tempting taverna's whilst breathing in all the delightful aroma's  ;D but seriously it is a fact that most peope spend alot of their money in the village and therefore help to keep the village a thriving community. Wherever we holiday we usually rent air conditioning and a safe plus we buy breakfast most days from the hotel/apartment, also pre dinner drinks and a few[well alot] of night caps from our hosts.
I know holidays in general have gone up in price but there are still bargains to be had and I agree that the businesses of SS will not want to chuck Thomsons out any time soon.
Everyone who spends money in SS or any other Greek resort is flying the flag for Greece.

romanza man:
Hi Tony
I agree with some of your sentiment,ie what Thomsons pay the hoteliers but surely from what i have heard and been told by others,Easyjet are no better when it comes to the way they treat customers, all the extras they now have to pay, baggage,seating etc.
Going by my own personel experience having used Thomsons since the eighties not always to Corfu, we have always got a fair price for our holidays and like lilly and jimbo spread our spending money around the village and in doing so made a lot of new friends, Locals and brits. Everybody will have their own travel choices and will continue to travel the way they like.
Wishing everyone a good and enjoyable holiday and hope to meet old and new friends.

loftyscot:
 I love a Thomson debate.

Go to the TUI www and divide its net profit by the number of bookings and you'll be amazed at the very small margins it operates to.

I find it hard to understand why it bothers in the first place.

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