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UK BREXIT TRAVEL
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ASSOCIATED PRESS – AP CLIENTS ONLY
London, UK – 1 February 2019
1. Wide of visitors getting travel advice at stand in front of sign, reading (English): “This is how to holiday”
2. Close of word “Holiday”
3. Wide of Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show at London’s Olympia exhibition centre
4. Close of sign, reading “Europe”
5. Various of Wild Frontiers stand
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Pullman, Marketing Manager, Wild Frontiers:
“Well, from our perspective, the travel industry has proven quite resilient. We’ve had a really good January just passed and our stand has been really busy today with people wanting to get holiday ideas. We did see initial drop off just after the Brexit referendum result, that was largely due to currency issues, so the pound obviously lost ten percent of its value. As a result, we had to put a lot of our prices up because we price our tours in dollars in a lot of our destinations. So, we saw a bit of a drop off then. But surprisingly, despite all the current chaos, we’re seeing people are very interested in travelling to far off places from Uzbekistan to Iran and further afield.”
7. Wide of world map at Wild Frontiers stand
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Pullman, Marketing Manager, Wild Frontiers:
“Yes well, I’m not sure whether it’s related to the current Brexit issue, but we certainly are seeing areas outside Europe growing in popularity from the Silk Road in the Middle East to Latin America as well. Quite why people are shifting their focus away from Europe and into these areas I’m not quite sure whether it’s related or whether it’s just (a) trend.”
9. Wide of sign, reading (English): “Holidays packed full of experience”
10. Various of Cyprus stand
11. Various of Kirker Holidays stand
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Ted Wake, Managing Director, Kirker Holidays:
“People have seen political changes over the course of time and people will still want to go on a decent holiday to Italy, France, Spain, Morocco, Russia and whatever the challenges are in the short term, they won’t compromise their ambitions to have a well-tailored, carefully-planned holiday that involves exactly the right elements that they enjoy on their holidays, whether it’s wine tasting, visiting a great museum, having a walking tour in a city. They’re not going to forego that because of some short-term anxiety.”
13. Wide of stand for holidays to the Balkans
14. Mid of stand for holidays to Europe
15. Mid of Sunvil Holiday stand, Noel Josephides, Chairman of ABTA, in background
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Noel Josephides, Chairman, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA):
“What the EU has said is that you need at least six months on your passport. Technically, if in fact the passport you’re holding now was issued prior to its expiry, you have to add on those months onto the six months period. So, you may find yourself having to need ten months, nine months, fifteen months. So, you have to make sure exactly where you stand by going onto the government website, putting in the details of your passport, and then literally you will be told when you have to renew.”
17. Wide of Josephides speaking to show visitor
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Noel Josephides, Chairman, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA):
19. Various of Flight Centre stand
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Noel Josephides, Chairman, Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA):
21. Various of Guernsey stand
22. Various of Isle of Man stand
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Ranald Caldwell, Chairman, Isle of Man Visit Agency:

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