Vakanz 2010 - impressions from the tourism fair

Yesterday we've spent a couple of hours at the tourism fair Vakanz 2010:

Here are some general impressions:

- for a Sunday morning, there was a pretty big crowd of visitors

- judging by the number of bags with brochures carried around by visitors, people seemed to be more interested in their next vacation as compared to last year. This could be a sign that the crisis is coming to an end

- the prices of vacations offered was considerably higher than what you can buy online at the German tour operators (TUI, ITS, FTI, etc.)

- the representatives of some participants were overzealous, while others were simply indifferent

- the stands of the bigger tourist agents in Luxembourg (ULT, Sales Lentz, Luxair Tours) had organised lotteries where visitors could win various vacations / cruises

- compared to last year, the number and variety of promotional items was reduced


To conclude, the tourism fair is a good place where you can get useful ideas / information about your next vacation, but is not the place to buy your next vacation.

Vakanz - tourism fair at LuxExpo, during the week-end starting on January 15, 2010

The annual Vakanz tourism fair will take place this week-end at LuxExpo, starting on Friday, January 15, 2010.

The entrance fee is EUR 5 / per person, but there are some opportunities to get free tickets:

- follow the newspapers and magazines published in Luxembourg during the period before the fair. You might find there free invitations for 2 persons

- enter into the office of a local travel agent and ask for free invitations. As participants to the fair, they have many invitations to give away (last year we arrived at LuxExpo and were standing in queue to buy 2 tickets when a good man approached us and offered us 2 free invitations issued by a local travel agency)

Now that the holiday period is over, the tourism fair is a very good opportunity to think of the good times away from the office on a sunny beach or on a snowy slope (depending on preferences :)