10 February 2011
Bookings to the Caribbean are down 20% according to a study by ‘Co-operative Travel’. The holiday company studied 30,000 bookings made since 1 November 2011, when the increased APD came into effect, and compared them with bookings for the same period the previous year. The results show a 17% reduction year-on-year in holidays for destinations that are between 4,000 and 6,000 miles from London.
According to its analysis, sales to the Caribbean are down 20% and sales to India have been even harder hit, down 34%. Transport Minister, Theresa Villiers, confirmed last week that the Government is examining the impact of taxation on aviation with a view to an announcement in March 2011.
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