Some holidays just don't get booked
Some holidays never make it to the booking stage, as Britons’ ideas of a trip overseas often get quashed for various reasons, according to a new poll.
The study found that as many as a third of vacation plans never actually reach the booking process, with the financial situation of many Britons blamed the most for some holidays never coming to be.
One positive that we can take from this research could be that at least Britons aren’t getting themselves into debt by booking holidays they can’t afford.
Aside from unrealistic financial expectations, the other reasons for holiday plans falling through include unattainable leave from work and not being able to decide where to go, according to research by an online travel agency in the UK.
www.sunshine.co.uk polled 1,956 UK adults, in a bid to find out how many holiday plans never actually amount to anything.
Respondents were asked to consider the holidays they’d either booked or began planning in the last three years; planning being anything from the early research stages right up to just before the actual booking.
When asked to estimate how many of their holiday plans, over the last three years, had been quashed for whatever reason and had never actually reached the point of booking, the average answer was one in every three.
Chris Clarkson, co-founder of sunshine.co.uk, said: “It’s sad to think that as many as one in three holidays never actually come to be.
“It’s often easy to get carried away planning a holiday without checking certain things, like if you can get time off work or, indeed, if you have enough money to be spending on a trip in the first place.”
For seven per cent of respondents, holiday plans remained a twinkle in their eyes, because they had disagreed with co-travellers on where to stay and bad reviews had put them off certain places.
Chris added: “One positive that we can take from this research could be that at least Britons aren’t getting themselves into debt by booking holidays they can’t afford.
“It seems that many take the sensible approach and if they know they haven’t got the funds to be jetting off into the sunset, they stay put for a while.”