More Brits staying with friends and family, finds SeaFrance poll
Almost 30% of Brits who have already booked a holiday are intending to stay with friends and family abroad, according to a poll by SeaFrance Dover-Calais Ferries.
The survey of 388 SeaFrance past passengers, conducted in February 2009, found 23% of those not yet booked are also planning to stay with friends and family.
When the same question was asked three years ago, the figure was only 12%.
The poll found over 80% of UK residents are still planning to holiday abroad in 2009, with only 12% planning to stay in the UK and 16% likely to take three breaks or more.
A third are still planning to take at least two breaks and 16% taking three.
Only 5% of those surveyed were anticipating not being able to travel at all this year and just 4% were avoiding the eurozone due to the fallen exchange rate.
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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