The 10 most ingenious travel offers

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In the year of the ‘staycation’, the travel industry is having to come up with imaginative ways to get your booking

Spare a thought, if you will, for the travel agents. I know they’re not high on your sympathy list, but stick with me.

When that business with the banks and the mortgages happened at the end of last year, people started predicting that none of us would go on holiday ever again.

And while that’s thankfully not quite the case, a quarter of respondents to a recent poll carried out on behalf of The Times claimed to have cancelled plans for their summer holiday.

Unsurprisingly, over the past six months, tour operators have been cutting prices left and right to encourage us to book. Realising even that is not enough, crafty companies are coming up with ever more bizarre incentives to get our business. Any of these take your fancy?

More: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article6073802.ece