World Cup and UK Heatwave keeping holidaymakers at home

[TheLocalYokel]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/travel/news/world-cup-blamed-brits-delay-12860053

The World Cup usually has a negative impact on holiday travel abroad in the first part of the summer, but this year England's perhaps unexpected progress coupled with the long spell of hot weather in the UK has apparently exacerbated the situation with the Balearics particularly hit according to the linked newspaper report.

Tour operators and hoteliers are slashing prices to try to tempt people to travel.

The ubiquitous Simon Calder was discussing the situation on the BBC Tv News Channel this morning and quoted a number of very low prices both for holidays and for flight-only deals from a number of UK airports. He thinks that the travel industry is hoping for an England exit after today's match against Sweden.

 

[rollo]

Well he probably knows as much about football and the way it can bring much of a country (England in this case) together as he does about travel requirements of people outside the metropolis, can't stand the bloke or understand the BBCs fixation with him.

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Well he probably knows as much about football and the way it can bring much of a country (England in this case) together as he does about travel requirements of people outside the metropolis, can't stand the bloke or understand the BBCs fixation with him.

He's not my favourite travel person (I don't say 'expert') as I've mentioned more than once on F4A.

Another one I always found irritating and who used to be wheeled out regularly by the news media when any aviation-related occurrence was in the news (I haven't seen him on the telly for a while though) is David Learmount, sometimes called David Learmouth by some of those who weren't his biggest fans.