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Record Numbers Of Britons Go Abroad To Get Value For Money
by: lucyevans44
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The terrible May Public Holiday weather and heavy deluge which met workforces on their way back to the factories on the Tuesday, following a long weekend, has led to a large increase in bookings for vacations abroad. Many UK residents it seems are trying to dodge the random weather of the UK and go somewhere hot and sunny. Over the course of the bank holiday and particularly around Tuesday lunch time, online travel websites like, lastminute.com, Thomson and First Choice experienced dramatic increases in online holiday bookings, some even by twenty percent .
The climate of the UK is a strong reason in pushing British holiday makers abroad in record numbers again this year, bookings alone for winter breaks have dramatically increased and demand for short city breaks is ever growing. With the state of global financial anxiety in the UK at the moment, short city breaks are becoming popular with people not ready to fork out for full price vacations. The typcail cost for a week’s holiday has recently been put at around two thousand pounds, according to a recent survey of around two thousand travellers abroad.
The shorter, city breaks, with cheap prices are rising in demand, fuelled by costs of a fortnight abroad compared to shorter breaks, a recent survey by an online travel website, reported that over 18% of holiday makers are choosing for these short city breaks as opposed to only 23 per cent taking a fortnight or more.
A fundamental reason for the growth in city breaks and enticement of far away sunny destinations is due to the pound’s current standing against the Euro. The pound is weak against the Euro,at the moment, a Euro costs 80p. This has led to traditional destination haunts like Spain and Cyprus take a decline in bookings with holiday makers looking at cheaper alternatives in countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Morocco where the pound is stronger.
One of these countries, Romania, have certainly noticed an influx of tourism to their seaside resorts and towns over the last couple of years. Last year alone the tourism market made 34 million Euros more compared to the last year. Although, many Britons choose to holiday now in eastern European countries, the infrastructure and facilities does not have enough fascination to make foreign tourists spend more money and so help their economy. Even still, the forecasts for this year is that the amount of tourists should increase by around 13-15%.
19% of holiday makers surveyed were also looking to visit countries were the pound is strong. This means that the USA, with its weak dollar is particularly charming with cities such as New York, Orlando, LA and Vegas touted as potential break destinations.
All in all the upcoming uncertainty surrounding the strength of the pound against other currencies as well as escalating utility, fuel and mortgage payments, will certainly mean that holidays abroad to traditional destinations like Spain and Greece, become less and holidays to eastern European countries like Bulgaria increase, from our need to get the most from our money in today’s hard financial climate.
About the Author
Lucy is a commentator writing about on UK Travel, such as Butlins Holidays on behalf of eComparison.
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