What do Trad Travellers tend to think of them ?

Not very much in my experience. In interviewing parents in my previously mentioned position of head of Special Schools, I started to hear - "We're Gypsies ( or we are Romanies) - nothing to do with that new-Age lot.... they give us a bad reputation." Reclaiming the once-despised terms became a badge of pride. I sometimes asked such people if they were members of the Romany & Traveller History Society and if they were not I gave them the home phone number of the head of the organisation (who is a friend of mine and lives in this area). She had encouraged me to do this and give the phone number. She was a regular at our folk club and sometimes she would turn up with sceptical, suspicious looking friends who she knew would be delighted to hear the Travellers mentioned and praised as the sources of the songs that were being sung and the tunes that were being played. I always tried to look at her when such comments were being made to catch the broad grin on her face.
We have even been to some of their events and played tunes for them, for although they have lots of step-dancers in the local area, they do not seem to have any musicians.