AN Edinburgh travel firm has collapsed, only to re-emerge under a new
name, trading from new premises, and leaving about 160 clients unsure
whether their Scotland-Ireland rugby trip to Dublin this weekend will be
honoured.
Dalry Travel Services Ltd went into liquidation last Friday but it
emerged yesterday that a new company, Edinburgh International Travel
Services, is operating from 12 Rutland Square under the same management
as Dalry Travel. Staff working for EITS were trying to deal with the
outstanding contracts pertaining to Dalry Travel.
Mr Maurice Rochford, manager of Aer Lingus in Glasgow, said that most
of the flight bookings made by Dalry Travel had been ''sorted out'' by
EITS.
However, Mr Robin Campbell, a financial services specialist from
Kilbarchan, said he feared he had lost more than #1000 he had paid for
himself and two business associates to fly to Dublin, stay in the
Burlington Hotel, and go to the international match. He said Aer Lingus
had no record of a booking in his name.
Yesterday, he made a formal complaint to Lothian Regional Council's
trading standards department.
Last night, Mr Martin Rushton, the department's assistant director,
said EITS seemed to be trying to deal with the clients who had booked
through Dalry Travel but added that, in the case of people who had
booked the Dublin rugby weekend, there was ''only a finite amount of
time'' to finalise arrangements.
Mr Rushton advised anyone who was concerned to contact his
department's Advice Shop on 031 225 1255.
A spokesman for accountants KPMG Peat Marwick, which has been
appointed the provisional liquidator for Dalry Travel, said the
business, which operated from Dalry Road in Edinburgh, employed two
people in addition to its two directors.
An answer-phone at Dalry Travel's number was yesterday playing a
message asking callers to leave their own message.
No-one at Edinburgh International Travel Services was prepared to
comment.
The provisional liquidator, Mr Rod Owen, said: ''We were only formally
appointed at the end of last week so are still in the process of
assessing the company liabilities but our initial view is that there
will be insufficient funds to pay any creditors.''
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