Brits cutting back on flights due to price rises
The rising price of flights has prompted 50% of Brits to change their travel plans, according to a survey of 2,000 members of European travel portal trivago.co.uk.
The poll found that 10% flew less, 21% stayed at home and 4% did not make any long-distance trips.
But only 16% of Brits changed their travel plans due to climate change, and over 80% are skeptical about global warming.
In fact, 40% believe it is all media hype and only 4% of respondents have cut back on flying because of environmental concerns.
The results also showed that no British travellers chose to stay in ecologically friendly hotels.
In other European countries there is less skepticism, with only 24% of the Germans and 30% of the French thinking climate change is media hype.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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