Saga Holidays also deals only with older people, in this case, travelers over 60, offering tours, cruises and longer stays overseas.

Saga Holidays, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 02116; 617-451-6808.

Saga Holidays, specializing in travelers over 50, has dropped the single penalty on most packages to Europe in its current catalogue.

Saga Holidays, which sells its trips directly to the public, has been highlighting single rooms "at no additional cost" in some brochures for four years.

One company, Saga Holidays, sells some 200 international and domestic tour packages, including cruises, to clients over 60 years of age.

The sort of holidays available range from Club Med, to Saga Holidays, who arrange specialist tours for people over 60, and everything in between.

Saga Holidays, which only recently added Guyana to its programme, reports that 60 per cent of its autumn and winter holidays for 2009 are already sold.

A 10-night break in Tunisia costs from £749 per person with Saga Holidays (0800 056 5880; www.sagaholidays.co.uk).

In 1979 Bach began working for then family-owned Saga Holidays, joining the company as editor of Saga News.

For the over-50s Saga Holidays (0800 414 444; www.saga.co.uk) offers cruising, resort and touring holidays for people aged 50 and over.