The SPAA, founded in 1921, is the world’s oldest organisation representing travel agents. Its survey of members found 60% of agents surveyed had made new bookings for new holidays for clients in April.
The majority of the new holiday bookings were for beach holidays at 55% with 28% cruises and 17% a city break.
The majority of the new bookings were made to European destinations (83%) although 40% had made new bookings to the Caribbean; 37% to North America and 20% to the Far East and Australia/New Zealand respectively. The survey found that travellers want something to look forward to and are looking to their ‘bucket list’ of destinations for the holiday of a lifetime as a ‘reward’. People very much still wish to travel in 2020 if they can.
Air travel In different developments, Heathrow airport, has announced that it is to start trialling the use of temperature checking thermal cameras within weeks in one terminal. It will also trial the sanitisation of security trays by ultraviolet light and contact free security equipment to reduce the level of person to person contact. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says it supports the onboard wearing of face masks for travellers and airline staff but is of the opinion that social distancing measures which leave the middle seat empty are not required.
Website: www.spaa.org
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