Articles tagged “uk”

Booking sites are prominent throughout the online trip-planning process for U.K. travelers and while they're one of the most used channels for booking, airline and hotel sites become more important when travelers are ready to pull the trigger. Offline travel agents and tour operators are big, too, but not covered by this survey.

The direct booking wars will not be fought by laying out the evidence to parliamentary committees, but in the hearts of consumers. Still, the arguments and the evidence are definitely worth reading

The British millennials value traditional travel agents more than American millennials, but still a large majority have moved away from it, which shows in the number of shuttered high street travel agent store fronts over the last decade or so.

Where once people would have stayed huddled around their new TVs spending copious amounts on booze, now they're headed to sunny shores on last-minute getaways. Bad for Rooney and the boys, great for Thomas Cook and easyJet.

UK nationals used to be great holiday takers and a good source market for lots of other countries, but that's changing as the economy and recession has taken its toll on the vacation habits of its citizens.

UK has been aggressive in promoting the country internationally, and spending enough to make sure the visitor numbers rise. But it has lots of macro challenges, including promoting rest of the country outside of London, fixing the country's inbound airport hubs, loosening the visa regime, and more.

With digital music destroying other parts of the music economy, live music is thriving and tourism as part of it cannot be underestimated as these numbers from UK show.

The growing trend of turning prisons into boutique hotels exemplifies consumers’ desire for authentic or unique experiences as well as hoteliers’ appetite for differentiating themselves by pushing design boundaries.

Just as domestic tourism to the Sicilian film spots slowed during the recession, the popular series was exported to the UK with surprisingly huge benefit of driving UK tourists to recession-hit shores.

Backpackers and hardened travelers have been looking forward to being among the first to ride all the way through, and despite security concerns and permits involved, we hope this one actually launches.