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Travel Counsellors makes more bookings in last seven days than whole of April
Travel Counsellors made more new bookings in the last seven days than throughout the month of April.
Nearly £6m bookings were made in the last week, with UK leisure bookings climbing to 70% of the figures achieved the same time last year, and the company reports that over £1m bookings were made on Wednesday 25 November alone.
Corporate travel bookings in the UK have also increased by 30% compared to the previous week.
Travel Counsellors Global Sales Director, Jim Eastwood, says, "Travel Counsellors customers are for the most part falling into two groups – one making ‘last-minute’ bookings within three weeks of departure, and others booking far into summer 2021 on the premise that travel restrictions will be a distant memory due to the prevalence of a vaccine."
December departures were the most popular booking made last week by Travel Counsellors, with the UAE being the top destination for customers craving higher temperatures. January departure enquiries also grew by 35%, doubling the figures from two weeks ago.
Summer 2021 bookings have increased by 46%, with the Mediterranean and the US proving most popular, and customer enquiries are up 45% week on week.
Lisa
Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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