Where should Brits holiday after Article 50 now the pound is squeezed? Emerging destinations offer an affordable alternative to the Costa del Sol. Plus, there’s always camping ...
Picking our way across the broken glass, we cross the beach to where the sea can just be seen, a distant grey smudge. Dad puts up some stumps and we play cricket with a bald tennis ball. Nobody wins. Later on, the rain drives us into an abandoned bus shelter where we eat chips. There is no money for fish.
Is that the British holiday of the future? Actually, it’s my own childhood memory of a dismal summer’s day in Mablethorpe in 1967, but to judge from some of the doom and gloom of the Brexit trigger moment, you might think the great British holiday is heading straight back into that abyss. According to recent research by the insurer Columbus Direct, 41% of Britons will be changing their holiday plans this year as a direct result of the fall in sterling, with a hefty 16% – 8 million people – planning a staycation. Meanwhile, it looks like many traditional British destinations – the US, Australia, France and Spain – will also be more pricey. Could we be seeing a seismic shift in where the British go on holiday?
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