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| Jacy Meyer, e-Blok, Ltd. Marketing | jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 21/12/2007 |
| Girls Just Want To Have Fun! |
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Girls Just Want To Have Fun
More ladies traveling to Eastern Europe with friends
It’s a fact: girls need their friends. And with packed schedules and full diaries, it’s often quite difficult to squeeze in that much needed gal pal time. Smart ladies are doing it right: planning weekends away with their friends.
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| Jacy Meyer | e-Blok marketing team | jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 28/09/2007 |
| Bringing Brits to the Beer |
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Pissup.com introduces Berlin Pissup
Pissup.com, Eastern Europe’s largest party organiser, continues to expand its operations in the region. With travel statistics showing a trend towards friend and other group getaways* Pissup.com is helping to satisfy that need to travel by opening its sixth destination.
“Berlin is known... |
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| Jacy Meyer | e-Blok marketing team | jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 25/09/2007 |
| The Cure for What Ails You |
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Brooding Brits look to travel to cheer up
When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Or take a holiday. A new study out by Expedia.co.uk shows when the going gets rough, a majority of Brits are heading out of town.
Being fired, dumped or getting hit with a mid-life crisis seems to be as good as reason as any to take a trip.... |
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| Jacy Meyer / jacy.meyer@e-blok.com. Rasmus Christiansen, Pissup.dk / rasmus@pissup.dk - 30/07/2007 |
| The Vikings are Coming! |
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Eastern Europe the Destination as UK Travel Company Expands to Denmark
The Vikings used to regularly invade Eastern Europe to enjoy a spot of pillaging, drinking and womanising. This has gone out of fashion in the last hundred years or so… until now. With the start of Pissup Denmark (www.pissup.dk), a new Danish travel service... |
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| jacy.meyer@e-blok.com - 16/05/2007 |
| Friends Take Flight |
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Single-sex holidays taking off
Instead of spending their free time at the local pub or at a football match, busy people are making more time to holiday with their friends. New research out from Halifax Travel Insurance found in the past year, nearly nine million Brits left partners and/or families at home to travel with their... |
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| Adfero Ltd / Pissup.com - 11/04/2007 |
| Stag dos and break-ups drive singles-only travel boom |
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Nearly nine million Britons have chosen to ditch partners, friends and relatives of the opposite sex over the last 12 months and take a break with members of the same sex.
Over two-thirds more Britons opt for single-sex holidays today than would have done so five years ago, the research from Halifax Travel Insurance revealed.
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| Yahoo - 15/11/2006 |
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Beating the Winter Blues
January is the travel planning 'season' with the number of holiday searches increasing by over 4,000 (57%) - compared to December 2005. In February 2006, 20.1 million people in the UK made at least one search, with the average person searching 54 times - generating more than 1.1 billion searches in total.... |
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| Neil Smith - 06/10/2006 |
| They send us plumbers, we send them stags |
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They send us plumbers, we send them stags
Stag travel bucks the trend
Prague – 6 October 2006
Despite 2006 UK passenger numbers to popular destinations in Eastern Europe falling - eg. Prague down 2.5% (source 1), Budapest down 20% (source 2) - stag travel continues to buck this trend. This confirms that Eastern Europe is... |
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| www.praguepissup.com - 17/02/2006 |
| CzechTourism releases tourism forecast for 2006 |
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Last year the country hosted a record 6.4 million visitors - 6 percent more than in 2004, and that number is expected to grow again in 2006. Visiting tourists are expected to spend around 110 billion crowns - the equivalent of 4.6 billion dollars US. Traditionally, the greatest number of visitors comes from neighbouring Germany... |
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| e-Blok Ltd [owner of praguepissup.com] - 29/09/2005 |
| Analysis of the stag and hen market 2005 |
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1. Overall breakdown of the market:
There’s 200,000 weddings/year in the UK = 200,000 hen parties and 200,000 stag parties a year = 400,000 parties in all.
Of this about 75% of parties stay in the UK (300,000) and 25% go abroad (100,000).
The average spend on a party is GBP 75/head staying in the UK and GBP 220/head going... |
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| www.praguepissup.com - 29/03/2005 |
| According to estimates, 500,000 Brits will visit Prague in 2005 |
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According to estimates, 500,000 Brits will visit Prague in 2005. This is a 30% increase over 2004 when 380,000 visited, and a 100% increase over 2003 when 250,000 Brits visited Prague. (In comparison, nearly 2m Germans visited Prague in 2004, an increase of 8%). The biggest reason for this is that more than 20 planes daily arrive... |
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| The Scotsman / praguepissup.com - 21/03/2005 |
| Hen nights '£551 a head', says Egg |
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THE trend for holding stag and hen nights abroad has pushed the average cost of going to one to £551 per person, according to a new report.
And the vogue for heading to destinations such as Barcelona, Prague, Dublin and Amsterdam has resulted in the British spending more than £400 million a year on celebrations.
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| Tom Kenyon / pr@e-blok.com - 08/11/2004 |
| Interview with Sunday Telegraph |
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To Prague Pissup Bookings Manager Tom Kenyon:
1) How old are you, where are you from, and am I right in thinking you're the founder/co-founder of Praguepissup?
I’m 35 years old, from Manchester and I’m one of the co-founders of Prague Piss-Up. Since 2003, Prague Pissup has been owned by a British company, and I have my own... |
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| Morgan Stanley/Prague Pissup - 18/08/2004 |
| The Cost of Stag Weekends |
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Stag and hen nights are now costing Britons £532m a year according to new research. The survey by Morgan Stanley says that the average celebration costs friends £90 a time, rising to £365 for a weekend event.
Instead of a few drinks to celebrate their forthcoming nuptials, many would-be brides and grooms and their friends... |
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| Tom Kenyon - 10/09/2003 |
| Czech vs UK coverage of Stag groups in Prague |
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Mlada Fronta, the Czech Republic's most popular newspaper, ran a full-page article in January 2003 on British stag weekends, and quoted Jiri Sellner, head of Prague 1 police, as saying "it doesn't appear to me that the British need any more control than any other foreigners in Prague". Something must have been lost in translation,... |
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| CSO and praguepissup.com - 30/07/2003 |
| Statistics on Stag and Hen arrivals |
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The total number of tourists coming to Prague in 2002 was approximately 2.25m and it's estimated that the number for 2003 will be around the same figure. Of this total, the number of tourists coming from the UK is about 300,000 (14%), which puts it third in terms of tourist numbers and second in hotel-night stays (Germany is first... |
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| TNS Factum Ltd for CTA and Praguepissup.com - 25/07/2003 |
| British Stags are big spenders in Prague |
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The latest figures available for 2002 show that tourists on average spend $61/£40 per day during their stay in the Czech Republic. The highest spending tourists by nationality are Japan $96/£64, Spain $93/£62 and Russia $92/£61. The average spend for tourists from the UK is approximately only one-third of the highest spending... |
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