Thomson to sell multi-centre packages online
Thomson is predicting the rise of the ‘microadventurer’ next year, when it believes holidaymakers will want to pack more experiences into their week-long break.
In its latest travel trends report, it says customers will want to visit more than one destination and ‘try something new’.
To meet such anticipated demand, Thomson is launching multi-centre holidays for next winter via its website.
To begin with, it will offer six long-haul destinations as multi-centre options. These are Costa Rica, Cuba, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Goa and, new this year, Vietnam.
It claims it will have the first website in the UK where customers can design and book their own holiday visiting multiple resorts.
In the coming months, they will be able to book over 40 different multi-centre combinations with more than 1,500 options including tour and stay combinations.
Thomson believes key destinations for multi-centres will be USA, Cuba, Italy, Croatia, Sir Lanka, Vietnam and Thailand.
The operator is also expecting growth in city breaks and it anticipates more than half its city break customers will book New York, Las Vegas or Miami.
As 77% of its customers are happy to travel more than nine hours, it believes Vietnam, Cuba’s Cayo Santa Maria and St Lucia will be the ‘hot’ long-haul destinations next year while, closer to home, the Balearics, mainland Greece and the islands of Corfu and Rhodes are tipped to do well.
Overall, Thomson expects its top five destinations to be Vietnam, Cuba, New York, Singapore and Sardinia.
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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