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TravelSupermarket expects booking bonanza this weekend

Friday, 24 January 20143 min read

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.