It should be quite difficult to asses what portion of cancellations come from Covid and what part from Brexit. As of today at least. Will be hard to argue that Brexit could be any benefit to tourism though.
Well I’m pretty sure they don’t come for the quality of our beaches. How about our historic monarchy? Oh dear…
Almost the entire school trip industry has been wiped out by brexit. It’s impossible to get a visa for entire classes, and the UK no longer accept group travel documents for school trips rendering them non viable.
Result : they’re all going to other countries, a lot of them to Ireland.
Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage
They need us more than we need them.
Oh look it’s the guardian, the least reliable source of unbiased twaddle, that it can’t really be called a newspaper. They jump from one band wagon to another…
It’ll probably be due to COVID and the fact the UK had one of the highest infection rates, plus the amount of people that don’t want to spend two weeks in their own country isolating….
I’d be surprised if other countries that are reliant on tourism aren’t also suffering.
It all comes down the uk now requiring passports instead of national ID cards which is what most people in the eu have for travel.
Consider someone organizing a weekend away for friends then not having to think about who has a passport rules out the uk.
You could have fooled me. Holiday cottages around the UK have all booked up over a year in advance as so many UK holidaymakers have wanted to stay in the UK rather than go overseas due largely to COVID I guess. I made a booking for a cottage in Cornwall for a holiday this August at Easter last year. Since then the prices on the website have gone up 20% and the bookings are still building fast through to 2023. I’m looking at booking a 2023 summer holiday in Northumberland very soon.
Probably doesn’t help with the likes of the New York Times and CNN writing articles about “plague island.” Putting aside the hypocrisy… with friends like these etc…
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It should be quite difficult to asses what portion of cancellations come from Covid and what part from Brexit. As of today at least. Will be hard to argue that Brexit could be any benefit to tourism though.
Well I’m pretty sure they don’t come for the quality of our beaches. How about our historic monarchy? Oh dear…
Almost the entire school trip industry has been wiped out by brexit. It’s impossible to get a visa for entire classes, and the UK no longer accept group travel documents for school trips rendering them non viable.
Result : they’re all going to other countries, a lot of them to Ireland.
Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage
They need us more than we need them.
Oh look it’s the guardian, the least reliable source of unbiased twaddle, that it can’t really be called a newspaper. They jump from one band wagon to another…
It’ll probably be due to COVID and the fact the UK had one of the highest infection rates, plus the amount of people that don’t want to spend two weeks in their own country isolating….
I’d be surprised if other countries that are reliant on tourism aren’t also suffering.
It all comes down the uk now requiring passports instead of national ID cards which is what most people in the eu have for travel.
Consider someone organizing a weekend away for friends then not having to think about who has a passport rules out the uk.
You could have fooled me. Holiday cottages around the UK have all booked up over a year in advance as so many UK holidaymakers have wanted to stay in the UK rather than go overseas due largely to COVID I guess. I made a booking for a cottage in Cornwall for a holiday this August at Easter last year. Since then the prices on the website have gone up 20% and the bookings are still building fast through to 2023. I’m looking at booking a 2023 summer holiday in Northumberland very soon.
Probably doesn’t help with the likes of the New York Times and CNN writing articles about “plague island.” Putting aside the hypocrisy… with friends like these etc…