It’s that time of the year where everyone is writing a review of the last 12 months, and what they predict in 2009. I am going to start off by highlighting the popular posts written by yours truly over the last 12 months, there’s some cracking discussions, some heated, some not.

ABTA convention will cost £3k in carbon offsetting

This post hasn’t made the slightest bit of difference as ATBA have organised their annual conference in Barcelona in 2009, but it was a great debate that got Nathan at Travel Weekly and Kevin at Travolution in defensive mode, but this generated great discussion, and even a response from ABTA.

The debate continues

Airlines to charge obese passengers

This was the most difficult post to moderate with 108 comments. In general the discussion was split into two corners, one set of consumers who were against airlines charging obese passengers and one corner that were err all for it.

Read this debate

No future for the tourist information office

Another controversial post which generated a discussion regarding the future of the tourist information office. I gave some examples of what the tourism boards could do to make it a nicer experience and some brilliant points were made in the post, and a great discussion.

Your opinions on the future of tourist offices

The world’s most dangerous destinations

I wrote this post off the back of an article I read and didn’t imagine generating such an interesting discussion. From reading between the lines South Africa and the USA has the world’s most dangerous cities, but the debate is still on-going, with cities like Recife in Brazil being added.

Add your opinions to this debate

Subscribe for 2009 debates

These are just a few examples of the interesting debates had on Travel Rants in the last 12 months and I would like to thank readers for getting involved. It’s interesting that I’ve seen more travel companies getting involved along with consumers, and that’s what I wanted this blog to be all about.

Please subscribe to my RSS feed or newsletter to follow more exciting discussions in 2009.

• Your thoughts on charging obese air passengers extra
• Will Airlines charge obese passengers?
• Holiday selling tricks and the debate on obese passengers
• Passenger taken off flight for being too tall
• No future for the tourist information office

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