22 July 2008

15% of Brits havent tried something new today - or any other day

Some 15% of British people have never been abroad on holiday, according to a new survey.

According to research commissioned by Sainsburyââ¬â¢s Travel Insurance, 6.96 million Brits have only ever taken their holidays on home shores and this tendency rises with age, with 21% of the 65+ market being homebirds.

Geographically, the surveyââ¬â¢s statistics revealed that you are more likely to stay in Blighty to take your hols if you are from the East Midlands and Anglia where some 23% of the population had never flown to foreign climes. The people of Yorkshire and Humberside were next on the table of stay-at-homes, with 17% saying they had never left the UK.

West Midlanders were the most likely to have jetted off ââ¬' just 9% of adults had never travelled abroad ââ¬' and Londoners were the next least likely not to have ventured abroad ââ¬' 11% only had remained in the UK all their lives.

The retailer commissioned the survey to highlight the need for travel insurance even when travelling in the UK, citing delays, lost or stolen baggage and illness relocation costs as reasons to take cover.

By Dinah Hatch

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• That leaves 85% who have !!!!
  
  

  Geographically, the survey's statistics revealed that you are more likely to stay in Blighty to take your hols if you are from the East Midlands and Anglia where some 23% of the population had never flown to foreign climes. OH HOW TRUE IS THIS SURVEY! I have met residents of small village in Foulsham, Norfolk, UK who have never been as far as Fakenham a town less than seven miles way from the village! Why is thias? simply the locals area tightly knit community where newly arrived rersidents are known as Outsiders and it takes 20 -40 years for tghe tag to be dropped. What the survey underlines is not that 15% are yet to try some thing new but that 85 per cent have ans tghat is whwerfe the market is and when compared to a similar survey carried out in the USA, you find that a greater percentage of American citizens have not ventured outside the country and that 30 percent of USA residents do not have a passport!

  By JULIAN BRAY, Wednesday, July 23, 2008