Posts Tagged ‘ beach holidays ’

When the time comes, the one thing that Just about Travel is convinced about is that travel won’t just surge but erupt.

City trips worldwide grew four times as fast as the total international holiday market over past 10 years and have overtaken “Sun & Beach” holidays in popularity.

Prince, viagra and bulldozing BA’s HQ compete for Adrian’s attention this week as one of the largest tour operators moves into short-breaks. Are staycations on the increase next year? Cosmos seems to betting that they are.

Last week the ABTA annual get-together met in Abu Dhabi. Originally an organisation of travel agents it also has tour operators as members, many of whom sell package holidays, cruises and flights.

For the last two years, ABTA’s research has had those people taking city breaks replacing beach holidays as the most popular form of holiday. Are we falling out of love with the beach?

In the UK, those aged 15-29 took six million holidays in 2012. Their German counterparts took 13 million. Why the reluctance of our group to travel abroad?

Travel is getting more stressful, according to the results of a new poll from HolidayExtras.com