{"id":1146161,"date":"2026-08-13T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1146161\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T12:20:30","slug":"want-to-visit-somewhere-new-here-are-manchester-airports-fastest-growing-beach-destinations-including-a-little-known-canary-island-and-the-maldives-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1146161\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to visit somewhere new? Here are Manchester Airport\u2019s fastest-growing beach destinations \u2013 including a little-known Canary island and the \u2018Maldives of Europe\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Destinations in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Croatia are among the 10 fastest growing summer holiday hotspots on Manchester Airport\u2019s route network.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The North\u2019s hub airport is expecting a record summer season for 2026, with its \u00a31.3bn transformation of Terminal 2 all but complete, and a major project underway to redevelop Terminal 3.<\/p>\n<p>Sunseekers\u2019 favourites like Malaga, Antalya and Mallorca are all expected to see extra visitors from Manchester this summer \u2013 but other, lesser-known destinations are seeing an even greater surge in popularity, with the number of people travelling there from Manchester this summer versus last summer set to double or even triple in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>These destinations are spread across the Mediterranean from east to west, and offer a rich blend of sun, sea, sand, history, culture and culinary delights.\u00a0 To find out where\u2019s hot this summer, read on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Turner, Chief Commercial Officer at Manchester Airport, said:<\/strong> \u201cWe\u2019re proud to connect people from across the North to the places they want to fly to \u2013 and we know for many people, that means the tried and trusted holiday favourites that keep them coming back year on year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor others, however, part of the excitement is the opportunity to explore somewhere new \u2013 and we provide plenty of options, with a route network of more than 200 destinations which is unrivalled in the UK outside London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSometimes, a destination will go viral on social media or see a spike in demand as adventurous travellers discover it \u2013 and we then see that translate into airlines adding extra flights or flying larger aircraft to those destinations to meet that demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe keep our finger on the pulse to analyse these trends and we work with our airline partners to ensure that if a particular destination is in vogue, or emerging as a new favourite, you can get there from Manchester.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                    &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Destinations in Spain, Portugal, Greece and Croatia are among the 10 fastest growing summer holiday hotspots on Manchester&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1146162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[44042,18991,2000,299,5187,2314],"class_list":["post-1146161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-airline-news","tag-airlines","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-manchester-airport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117088172470008186","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}