More bad news for British "would be" travellers today, with the release of figures from hotel price comparison site www.trivago.co.uk. that show how the falling British Pound has a direct impact on the equivalent prices of hotel rooms around Europe...
Phil Davies reported for Travel Mole that "Prices in many tourist capitals have increased over the past month. A hotel room in Rome (£103) costs 13% more than in February; in Vienna (£105), the price has gone up by 19%...
Increases have also occurred in Amsterdam (£106), Athens (£84) and Barcelona (£93), with all three cities seeing increases of nine per cent from February to March...
The opposite is true in Denmark and Sweden, though prices in both countries are still far higher than the European average, according to the study...
Hotel rooms in Copenhagen (£118) and Stockholm (£122) have dropped by six per cent since February..."
With the Nordic states still very expensive, and the rest of Europe on the way up and up, it looks like the Brits will be forced into another year of staycations...
Barticus.
Thats a bad news for the industry.
ReplyDeleteYes and no. Although there will be an obvious "knock on" effect to international tourism, especially within Europe, the potential benefits for internal tourism are huge. With the British public starting to get used to the idea of the "staycation" thanks to the promises of bbq weather, etc last year, this should be set for another booming year for destinations and atractions in the UK..
ReplyDeleteBarticus.