lmost half of all the package holidays booked through tour operator Thomas Cook are to locations outside the eurozone, compared with 38% in 2018
Turkey has leapfrogged Greece to become the second most popular destination for UK holidaymakers seeking summer sun, with the travel group seeing a 27% uplift in flight bookings to the country from a year earlier. Turkey’s own currency drop — down more than 25% against the pound in the past year — has made it a more affordable destination.“In the UK, we are living in a time of unprecedented political upheaval” Peter Fankhauser, the company’s CEO, said in a forward to the report.
Virgin Atlantic and Jet2 are among the airlines that have warned divorce negotiations were weighing on ticket sales. EasyJet gave a cautious outlook in a trading update this month, with Chief Executive Officer Johan Lundgren saying that Brexit uncertainty “clearly has had an impact on customer demand.” Tour operators such as Saga Group have also noted how the UK’s protracted exit from the EU has led to a lower level of bookings.
Tunisia also stands out as an increasingly popular destination for UK sun-seekers, with family bookings to Tunisia up 159% year on year. The north African country was Thomas Cook’s third biggest year-round destination before a terrorist attack at a hotel in 2015 left 38 people dead. UK government advice warning against travel to Tunisia was withdrawn in July 2017.
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