With severe restrictions still hanging over holidays abroad, the UK faces a staycation summer. Whether you’re planning picnics with lashings of ginger beer, lazy days in pub beer gardens or a DIY bonanza, there will be both business winners and losers from our changed spending habits within the next few months. Fund managers and individual … Read more
Lack of safety advice threatens staycation plans as holiday park owners have to pause or cancel all bookings Caravan, camping and holiday parks planned to reopen in the first week of July But owners have been given no safety advice and warn it will hit families’ plans A growing number of campsites have had to pause … Read more
Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has called on British holidaymakers to choose vacations in the UK rather than heading abroad for their summer break this year as tourism chiefs launched a campaign to save the tourism industry. Amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the 14-day quarantine imposed by the government on travellers coming to the UK, … Read more
Don’t know what you think, but it seems to me that lockdown has had a peculiarly Seventies feel to it. Maybe it’s partly that everything has slowed down to a crawl, and anything that does happen takes place in your back garden, with the radio on (very summer of ’76). Perhaps it’s all the rainbows … Read more
Volkswagen preparing for potential surge in camper van sales as middle-class Britons plan summer of socially-distanced staycations By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 24 May 2020 | Updated: 22:15 BST, 24 May 2020 Volkswagen is preparing for a potential surge in camper van sales as middle-class Britons plan a summer of … Read more
As Health Secretary Matt Hancock said, it’s not looking rosy for Britons as far as summer holidays are concerned. But there is some good news – Britain is peppered with spell-binding spots they can visit that look like they’re abroad. Some, it might even be said, trump their ‘abroad’ counterpart. Here are 10 breathtaking destinations … Read more
British holidaymakers hoping to visit UK tourism hotspots such as seaside towns were warned today they will be unable to do so ‘for some time to come’. Many workers with pre-booked annual leave who had been hoping to travel abroad this spring or summer will now be turning their sights to a holiday in Britain. … Read more