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The ‘queenagers’ breathing life into the travel industry

Caroline Blakeney had only been back home a week after the trip of a lifetime to Egypt before she made a booking to go to India. The 62-year-old hadn’t been abroad for 23 years before she took the flight to Cairo, now there’s no holding her back.

“It’s all out there to be seen, you’ve got to go for it,” she says. “A couple of people

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