More Brits hopping aboard ferries
Nearly 28 million people travelled by ferry in the first eight months of this year – an increase of 2.6% on 2013.
Almost 15 million of those travelled in the summer months of June, July and August, according to Discover Ferries.
Of these summer ferry passengers, over 7 million chose continental ferry routes, nearly 5.9 million visited UK domestic destinations by ferry such as Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Channel Islands and Scottish Islands, and nearly 2 million took a ferry to Ireland.
The fastest growing ferry sector over the last three summer months to end August has been continental destinations, up 4.2% to 7.06m passengers, with 2.92m of these carried on continental ferry routes in August alone, up 5.7% on August 2013.
Over 6 million cars and almost 120,000 coaches were carried during the eight-month period.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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