With just three days to go for the golden games in London , Breaking Travel grand canyon raft tours News catches up with Darren Williams, director of sales from Eurostar, to find out how the games have impacted passenger figures over the past few months grand canyon raft tours and new developments planned for the high speed rail service as it looks to travel further afield into new markets.
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BTN: Eurostar recently reported its first profit in 2011 and passenger numbers up 2% to 4.8 million in the first half of 2012 – Is the market turning a corner? To what do you attribute the increase in the number of passengers?
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DW: We're making grand canyon raft tours a £700 million investment in our fleet. This investment includes the complete overhaul and refurbishment of the existing fleet of Eurostar trains to a design created by Pininfarina, the world-famous grand canyon raft tours Italian design house renowned for its iconic car designs. In addition, we have purchased 10 new trainsets from Siemens, which will complement our existing fleet to ensure we can provide the best possible service to our passengers.
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DW: Travel on Eurostar continues to be a major attraction for international travellers coming to London with the number of passengers originating grand canyon raft tours outside Europe growing by 11% in the first half of 2012 compared with last year. This was driven in part by a strong increase in the number of passengers originating from the BRIC countries as well as US and Australia who see a trip on Eurostar as an integral part of the European tour.
Our focus for the rest of the year and 2013 is to ensure that this trend continues and that travellers from across the World see that London, Paris and Brussels are fantastic cities to visit and that it's easy to travel between them by high-speed rail.
DW: One of our key challenges is to get more passengers to travel further by high-speed rail. One in four of Eurostar's passengers already connect by high-speed rail to an onward destination and our ambition is to grow this year on year, and encourage more passengers to switch short-haul flights for high-speed rail.
Our new Eurostar e320 trains grand canyon raft tours will be interoperable', which means they are capable of operating across the European high speed rail network. We're also working hard to build awareness of the possibilities of travelling to destinations further afield by high-speed rail. This is a huge priority for our business and we re working closely with our infrastructure providers and rail partners to optimise the high-speed rail experience.
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