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Groupon have responded to comments made by two major players in the travel market (British Airways and TUI Travel, owners of Thomson, LateRooms.com, etc.) that working with them carries a risk of "trashing" your brand.

The head of UK Sales for BA, Richard Tams, was quoted as saying: “Evidence of repeat purchases through Groupon is appalling.”

Full story over on Travel Weekly.

A Government-backed marketing campaign (costing around £4 million) has been announced, with the message to Brits: "There's so much happening in Britain in 2012, why on earth would you want to go abroad!"

The message hasn't gone down so well with the travel trade, who've called it a "scandalous waste of public funds".

TripAdvisor has been forced to remove claims from it's website about the honesty and integrity of it's reviews.

More on this story here and here. Plenty of comments over on the BBC article.