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Ray Mears Blows Caravan Show Deal

When you’re booked to speak at a National Event promoting a way of life, it’s probably best not to criticise that way of life, publically as Ray Mears discovered this week when he found his appearance for the Caravan, Camping and Motorhome show cancelled after criticising ‘hideous’ caravans. Camping and »

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It’s Official: Holidays Make Us Happy

According to a recent survey by holiday company, Experia, it’s official, its holidays that make us happy and make the working week and the day to day drudgery a little more bearable. Almost 70% of people surveyed said that it was holidays that kept them focused at work and one »

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British Holidays May Suffer As Euro Slides

The British holiday industry has been building up to a bumper season and who can blame them with the trend for holidaying in the UK increasing every year. However, with a recent slump in the euro many European holidays are falling in price and that could mean holidaymakers could save »

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2015: The British Holiday Heyday

It’s generally appreciated that the heyday of the British Holiday, caravan parks, sticks of rock and beaches, was in the 1960s but in recent years we’ve seen a massive increase in the number of Brits holidaying at home! There’s no doubt that the recession played a huge part in what »

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Average Briton Plans Three Breaks In 2015

A survey by the Holiday Supermarket has shown that while we’re not quite into a New Year yet, many of us are already thinking about our 2015 holidays, and for the average holidaymaker there’ll be three holidays next year! Your typical family will be jetting off to Spain or somewhere »

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Holiday Thoughts Give Way To Holiday Thoughts

Us Brits probably spend about 50 weeks a year dreaming of summer holidays, but for two weeks a year we spend time thinking of another kind of holiday, as the Christmas season kicks in. While you may have cheered up your winter by already booking your break for next summer, »

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Air Passenger Duty Cuts May Affect UK Holidays

Earlier in the year, during the Budget the Chancellor, George Osborne announced that he would be scrapping the two highest bands of Air Passenger Duty and now he’s gone a step further in the Autumn Statement causing concern to some British holiday companies. The first part of the cut will »

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BBC Show Explores Heyday Of British Holidays

A new BBC show is exploring the heyday of the British holiday and is brightening up the television on these wet winter nights with stories of rock pools, ice creams and sandy bays. Holidays of My Lifetime has seen several celebrities taken back to the places of their childhood and »

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