WIN a holiday with Signature from Thomas Cook

Win a holiday

You could win a holiday to Miami with Signature from Thomas Cook.

The travel giant has launched a Twitter competition today, National Handwriting Day. All you have to do to enter, from now until midnight January 30, is write ‘Luxury travel tailor-made for me’ on a piece of paper, take a picture of it and tweet @ TC_Signature with #NewSignature.

If you want to get in quick, there is a live Twitterchat between 12 noon and 2pm today, hosted by Thomas Cook’s graphologist – upload your handwriting entry and have your scrawl analysed.

The competition was launched after experts warned that we are losing the art of handwriting because of computers and mobile phones. A survey by luxury brand Signature from Thomas Cook revealed that:

  • Less than half of the population writes every day
  • Almost half of us have never written a love letter!
  • Only 29% of us think handwriting notes show you care
  • Only 28% of us have cherished handwritten love letters
  • Only 18% of us have kept letters from exes

Graphologist Adam Brand said: “The survey has revealed handwriting is an endangered art so we should reclaim it. It is sad that less than half of us write every day and don’t send postcards when we go on holiday.

“However, we do still cherish handwritten notes, postcards and pieces of paper touched by our loved ones – you can’t do that with a text message. Handwriting is like a personality passport which can reveal a person’s characteristics and even aspects of their health.”