Exclusive Escapes have never gone bust before. The owner of this though was one of the owners of Tapestry, which did go bankrupt a few years back. The other owner of Tapestry reformed the company as Tapestry Collection and went bust again. But nothing to do with Exclusive Escapes as they had both gone their separate ways. And I do think it was a good small operator, though fairly expensive, which maybe in the current climate did not work.booking.com seem to be taking lots of business, which is fine so long as flights can stay relatively affordable. Will as many flights still operate as just flight only or do operators need to sell holidays also?