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Better Year Predicted for Overseas Holidays

Hotel Booking Consumer confidence has returned to holiday bookings as terrorism fears recede, new research conducted by MORI for ABTA (the Association of British Travel Agents) has found.

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Travel Agency Over the last two years, ABTA and MORI have tracked consumers holiday booking intentions and in January this year, 28 per cent of Brits (who had flown recently) had already booked an overseas holiday for this year, compared to 23 per cent in January 2002. A further 53 per cent said that they intended to go abroad in 2004.

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Cheap Hotel Similarly, far less people - three per cent as opposed to 15 per cent last year and six per cent in 2002 - said that the current threat of terrorism would lead them to delay booking until nearer the time they expected to travel.

Said Darren Panto, sales and marketing director of Peltours, "Egypt is slowly regaining its market share and we predict a return to good load factors in 2007. We have added holidays to the Mediterranean Coast and Jordan, contracted new hotels in Cairo, Taba and Taba Heights and featured some exciting excursions. Agents will be able to offer their clients an early booking discount of up to 00 and we plan to invite over 100 travel trade staff on educational visits this winter."

Flight Booking British consumers continued to travel in huge numbers over the last couple of years, but lack of consumer confidence made the trading environment extremely tough, said Ian Reynolds, ABTA Chief Executive. Our members are more optimistic about this year and this is borne out by the MORI consumer research.

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