TravelSupermarket expects booking bonanza this weekend
TravelSupermarket is predicting that this weekend will be the busiest weekend of the year for researching and booking a 2014 holiday.
It forecasts that bookings will be 18% higher than last weekend because for many it will be the first pay day since Christmas.
According to a poll by TravelSupermarket:
– 31.3% of consumers have already booked their holiday for 2014
– last week, 10% of searches were for a February 2014 get away
– Tenerife (10% of bookings), Majorca (8%) and the Costa Blanca (7%) are top destinations
– long-haul destinations Orlando, New York and Las Vegas have each seen 6% of the top searches this month
– 42% of bookings are for seven night breaks and 18% for two weeks
– (12%) and August (11%) are the most popular months for departures.
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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