June 9th - It's All Cancel Culture
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Scottish cruise cancellation – more misery on the ocean wave.
Another round of travel industry fury with the government’s “traffic light” policy.
And Britain's biggest holiday company extends cancellations.
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| 0:32.1 | Hello and thanks for joining me. |
| 0:34.3 | It's Wednesday, the 9th of June and here's the latest on travel and destinations from the Greenlist and the Travel Desk of the Independent. |
| 0:43.9 | Today, well, it's all cancel culture. There's been a Scottish cruise cancellation. More misery, I'm afraid, on the ocean wave. |
| 0:53.2 | There's another round of travel industry fury with government policy |
| 0:59.2 | and Britain's biggest holiday company has extended its cancellations, |
| 1:05.0 | but only for a week or two. |
| 1:07.6 | Of course, this podcast is completely free, |
| 1:10.2 | as is my weekly travel email. You can sign up at |
| 1:14.1 | independent.co.com.uk forward slash newsletters. Now, if you are kind enough to be a loyal listener, |
| 1:23.7 | you will be aware that on the 20th of May, I set sail on the very first cruise for over a year to leave a UK port. |
| 1:33.4 | And it was aboard MSC Virtuosa. |
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