Irish Daily Mirror

Travel agents say bookings to warmer climes up 25%

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as it is guaranteed sun.” Paul Hackett, CEO of Click&go, said: “Since Storm Emma, more than 70% of our bookings have been for sun holidays, with 47% of bookings travelling in March, April and May. Our Spanish beach top five selling sun destinatio­ns this week have been Lanzarote, the Algarve, Costa del Sol, and the Canary Islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria.”

John Galligan, of Galligan Travel, Sandyford, Dublin, told how he had elderly clients scheduled to fly to Marbella early last Saturday.

He said: “With the office closed, I took their files home with me and during the blizzard, I contacted them from home.

“To take the stress out of it, on Thursday I rebooked them for a week later and arranged for them to stay in a different hotel, as the original one was full for the new dates. They were able to relax during the snow storm.”

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