Tourism Trends News
European passenger traffic up in first half of 2013
European airport trade body, ACI Europe this morning released the first comprehensive report of airport traffic performance for H1 2013. The report includes all scheduled air traffic at Europe’s airports, including networks carriers, low cost carriers, charter and others.
Global leisure daily hotel rates achieved a new growth record
Global leisure daily hotel rates achieved a new growth record of +5.1% over prior year in June, according to second quarter data released today by Pegasus Solutions in The Pegasus View. The single largest processor of electronic hotel transactions reported that along with solid performance for holiday travel, business travel maintained prior year levels for both bookings and rates during the off-season.
Britain is #1 European shopping destination
Britain is the best place in Europe to visit for shopping, according to YouGov’s latest EuroTrack survey, which tracks public opinion in the UK, Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
Columbus survey reveals top 10 items Brits have to take on holiday
A survey conducted by travel insurance specialist Columbus Direct has found some surprising statistics on which item Brits cannot do without on holiday. The top three items that Britons insist on taking with them on holiday are smartphones (33%), books or an ebook reader (22%) and sunglasses (16%). Surprisingly, only 6% said that expensive gadgets such as tablets or an iPad was their essential holiday companion and only .5% said they couldn’t do without their camera.
Brits find holiday build-up distressing
Jetting off on holiday should be the easiest thing in the world. However, according to recent research by Holiday Extras, a combination of worries about the journey, anxiety about passports, flight delays and uncertainty over excess luggage fees, spoils the start of the getaway for 94% of British holidaymakers.
Package holiday bookings up as holidaymakers snap up heat-wave deals
Online travel agent Directline Holidays reports package holiday bookings are up for summer 2013 following a surge of last minute bookings as holidaymakers snap up reduced price holidays, many with discounts of up to 50%, caused by Britain’s heat wave.
Intense heat wave ushers in tourism to NJ beach towns
“The Shore is OPEN,” the official tourism website of New Jersey touts, assuring tourists that the Sandy-battered coastline is back up and running after months of recovery. As parts of the East endure the fourth heat wave of 2013, tourists are flocking to New Jersey’s coastline to cool off in the ocean and enjoy newly reconstructed parks, water rides and concessions.
Britons will spend an average of £40bn this year on holidays alone
A new study conducted by an online independent cruising travel agency has revealed that the average Briton spends £1,024 on holidays in the average year; collectively spending £40 billion on holidays in the average year as a nation.
‘Last minute holidays’ make up almost 3% of consumer searches for a break
The latest quarterly online search da[style=caption]ta from leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight, reveals the search term ‘last minute holidays’ accounted for almost 3% of a total of 4.4 million searches made on Google UK for holidays, in May.
UK holiday spending higher in the north than the south
People in the north of England are spending almost £200 more than their southern counterparts on their holiday this year - according to research* released today by lastminute.com. With house prices in the south of England up more than twice that of the UK as a whole, and typical London house values hitting an all-time high of £318,214, the cost of southerners’ homes may be affecting their time away.
Copenhagen Airport passenger numbers up nearly 5% in June
Passenger numbers at Copenhagen Airport were up 4.8% in June. A total of 2,329,956 passengers travelled through Copenhagen Airport during the first month of summer, the busiest month ever at the airport. The year-to-date increase in passenger numbers is 2.2%.
33% more Brits plan to take their car abroad than three years ago
The number of Brits planning to take their car abroad over the next 12 months has increased by a third (33%) in just three years, according to new research from Sainsbury’s Bank car insurance. Around 8.5 million Brits (23% of drivers) plan to drive abroad this year yet many could inadvertently break the law if they don’t know the rules of the road in the country they are visiting.