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More than three in 10 Britons (31%) say they plan to take a holiday or short break abroad in the next 12 months
Brits’ intentions to travel unchanged since autumn
Consumer survey conducted ahead of last month’s travel restart. Ian Taylor reports
Uncertainty about the restrictions on outbound travel had little impact on UK consumers’ intention to take overseas holidays this year ahead of last week’s government decision to drop Portugal from the green list. Exclusive research for Travel
Weekly in early May found demand for overseas holidays at the same level as last autumn with almost a third (31%) of adult respondents ‘likely’ to take a holiday or short break abroad in the next 12 months
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and one in six (16%) ‘very likely’. The figures were identical to
those in a survey completed in early November, but substantially down on the proportion pre-pandemic who expected to take overseas holidays. When respondents were asked the same question in October 2019, more than half (53%) said they were likely to have a holiday abroad and 33% ‘very likely’ – double the rate last month. There was a decline in the
proportion undecided between late last year (21%) and this May (16%) and a rise to 53% in the proportion unlikely to travel overseas in the next 12 months – 23 percentage points up on the figure in October 2019 – suggesting more than half the UK population are ruling out an overseas holiday not just this summer but for winter 2021-22 and much of spring 2022.
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