UK tourists choose more non-eu destinations

More UK holidaymakers are choosing non-european Union countries for their summer holiday this year, new figures suggest.

Thomas Cook reported 48 per cent of its package holiday bookings for this summer are to destinations outside the bloc, up ten percentage points from the same time last year.

The tour operator said the weakness of the pound against the euro was the most likely cause for the trend.

Turkey has seen the biggest growth in demand, leapfrogging Greece to become this summer’s second most popular package holiday destination after Spain and accounts for a quarter of all Thomas Cookairlinesflight-onlybookings. Tunisia is another noneu destination faring well. Thomas Cook said the prolonged uncertainty around Brexit had led many holidaymakers to delay bookings.