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DIVERSE GROUPS | FAMILY HOLIDAYS


Putting together a holiday for the 21st-century family? Cathy Toogood offers some tips


n 2021 there were 19.3 million families in the UK, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). And while glossy adverts may still depict them as comprising a family of four with two parents and two children, the findings reveal a very different picture when it comes to real-world modern families. For a start, according to the ONS, three million families in the UK have one parent – that’s 15% of UK families. Plus, research by the ONS in 2019 showed that there were 212,000 same-sex families in the UK, with numbers having increased by 40% since 2015. Similarly, Happy Steps, the UK’s research-based stepfamily resource centre, estimates that one in three of all UK families is a stepfamily or blended family.


As such, modern families will have a range of


varying requirements when it comes to travelling, meaning a variety of things for agents to think about when selling family holidays.


SINGLE-PARENT TRAVEL Q Tap discount offers


As with solo travellers, it can cost significantly more per person for single parents to take their children on holiday, but there are deals available to help with this. EasyJet holidays currently has a single-parent discount of up to £100, which is made up of £50 off for the adult travelling and £25 off per child for up to two children up to the age of 12. This deal can be used on a range of holidays worldwide and


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