Travel companies are seeing a surge in bookings for late summer, winter and next year from stay-at-home Brits hankering for a holiday.
With foreign travel severely curtailed, enquiries for UK breaks and staycations have sky-rocketed – with tourism chiefs saying they have hit a “record high”.
Travellers looking to venture further afield have also been putting their plans back until later. One company has even reported doing six months’ business in the space of last month as the crippled sector vowed to bounce back from the impact of the pandemic.
Business chiefs say that, with government help and the ramping-up of testing, the industry can see a way through the worst crisis many can ever recall.