Coach Holiday News

Leading operator Leger Holidays has been awarded the title of Best Coach Operator for 2008 by UK travel agents at the prestigious national travel industry Globe Awards in London.

Peter Raynor, retail sales director, who received the award from radio and TV personality Mark Lamarr, said, ‘It’s a fantastic achievement to win the award for the second year running and demonstrates the relationship Leger has developed with travel agents’.

He added, ‘We would like to thank our all agents for their support, in particular WA Worldchoice and coachholidays.com, who are Leger’s number one agent in the UK’.

The over-65s market is becoming one of the larger buying groups of adventure holidays among the older generations, a new survey has revealed.

Shearings Holidays sales and marketing director Karen Gee said an online survey of 1,068 people by Omnibus revealed one in 12 of the 65-plus market are booking activity and adventure holidays. The survey showed four times as many over-65s book adventure holidays as 55 to 64-year-olds. She added: “I thought it was fascinating how many over-65s are looking for action and adventure in their holidays and no longer just want to fly and flop.”

The survey revealed 45 to 55-year-olds take the most holidays, with 10% taking more than four holidays a year – the average is 6.9%.

Gee said this age group is also cornering the domestic holiday market, with 56.3% of 45 to 55-year-olds taking at least one UK break a year, the highest number in the survey.

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