Romania Give Uk People Best Holiday Value For Money

The horrendous May Public Holiday weather and torrential rainstorm which met workforces on their way back to the factories on the Tuesday, following a long weekend, has led to a big increase in bookings for vacations abroad. Many people it seems are trying to move away from the unpredictable weather of the UK and go somewhere hot and sunny. Over the course of the bank holiday and particularly around Tuesday lunch time, online travel websites like, Thomson and First Choice experienced dramatic increases in online holiday bookings, some even by 22%.

The weather in the UK is a deciding reason in driving British holiday makers abroad in record numbers again this year, bookings alone for winter breaks have dramatically increased and demand for short city breaks is ever growing. With the situation of global financial anxiety in the UK at the moment, short city breaks are becoming well liked with people not prepared to pay out for full price vacations. The typcail cost for a week’s holiday has recently been put at £2,057, according to a recent survey of around three thousand travellers abroad.

The quick, city breaks, with cheap prices are rising in demand, fuelled by costs of 2 weeks abroad compared to shorter breaks, a recent survey by an online travel website, reported that over 18% of holiday makers are choosing for these short city breaks as opposed to only twenty one percent taking a fortnight or more.

A major reason for the growth in city breaks and temptation of far away sunny destinations is due to the pound’s current standing against the Euro. The pound is weak against the Euro,at the moment, a Euro costs 78 pence. This has led to traditional destination haunts like Cyprus, Greece and Spain take a decline in bookings with holiday makers looking at more cost effective alternatives in countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Morocco where the pound is stronger.

One of these countries, Romania, have certainly noticed a steady increase of tourism to their seaside resorts over the last couple of years. Last year alone the tourism market made 34 million Euros more compared to the last year. Although, many Britons choose to holiday now in eastern European countries, the infrastructure and facilities does not have enough fascination to make foreign tourists spend more money and so help their economy. Even still, the predictions for this year is that the number of tourists should increase by around 12-16%.

Eighteen per cent of people surveyed were also looking to visit destinations were the pound is strong. This means that America, with its weak dollar is particularly charming with cities such as Orlanda and LA touted as potential break destinations.

To conclude the future uncertainty surrounding the strength of the pound against other currencies as well as escalating utility, fuel and mortgage payments, will certainly mean that holidays abroad to traditional destinations like Spain and Greece, occur less frequently and breaks to eastern European cities like Bulgaria increase, from our need to get the most from our money in today’s hard financial environment.

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Lucy is a commentator writing about on UK Travel, such as Butlins Holidays on behalf of eComparison.

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