Ferdinand was not the only celebrity to spend a holiday in north Wales this summer.
Four million dollars might be a lot to spend on a holiday, but those in the nascent space tourism industry say hoteliers have been slow on the uptake because no one thought the cost of space travel would come down as quickly as it has.
If the recent uptick in sales proves short-lived, retailers who extrapolate from the latest numbers will spend a miserable holiday season trying to offload unwanted stock at crippling discounts.
People just do not want to spend their holiday in a place that is the scene of a colossal salvage operation, our correspondent adds.
Although she still works at the Ghanaian Embassy, Bartels uses all her holiday every year to spend a month in Otuam.
Good news, too, for those who want to spend their holiday under canvas: French Polynesia has a smattering of camping options around.
While many holiday revellers spend Christmas tucking in to a bird with all the trimmings, Sydney locals eat from a cold menu of seafood and prawns before heading to the beach on Christmas Day.
Retailers are quite possibly going to be in for a severe letdown this holiday season, as a majority of female consumers have indicated that they intend to spend less on the holidays in 2012 than they did in 2011.
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Anecdotal evidence supports the thesis that he wealth effect caused by a rising market is encouraging consumers to spend during this holiday season.
This works for a lot of other stepmothers who choose to spend the holiday with their mothers or with women for whom they deeply care.
Families are asked about 21 ways to spend money, from swimming once a month to taking a yearly holiday.
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Responses were evenly split between those who predict consumers will spend more and those who expect less holiday spending. (A smaller group thought sales would be flat.) Those who are optimistic cited pent-up demand, greater confidence among those who have jobs and the recent returns charted by retail stocks.
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The other advantage of booking early is that you get the widest choice of accommodation and can spend a bit of time researching different places to ensure you have the best holiday possible, rather than making a snap decision at the last minute that's quite possibly going to be the wrong decision.
The simplest explanation for the new holiday is that Russians expect a day off in November to spend chatting around the kitchen table and drinking even more heavily than usual.
So says a score of anecdotal reports from retailers and statistics capturing the volume of spend this holiday season.
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Cane-growers spend Christmas in a panic, and the negroes don't have their party and holiday until after the New Year...
Last week, I was sent a photograph of the village in Dorset where my family and I spend our summer holiday.
Putting my head down and blasting through a few lackluster shooters has me dying to spend a little more time with Dishonored, the most interesting thing to come out of the holiday season so far.
She said she also got a better rate by booking a seat on one of the earliest trains to Washington, where she was going to spend the holiday with her family and attend her 20th high school reunion.
The company held annual family outing days, provided Christmas gifts and holiday parties for children of employees and provided a recreation facility for families to gather and spend their summer days.
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Increasingly, families are looking for more memorable ways to spend their holiday time, with activities that they can share and enjoy together, such as travelling on a felucca down the Nile, getting up close to incredible wildlife on safari or camping out under the desert stars.
According to the National Retail Federation, the average amount spent by a holiday shopper over the weekend was only up 6%, reflecting precisely the reported increase in total spend found in our survey.
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