There has been a lot of talk about the numbers of people who are staying in the UK for their holidays rather than going abroad.
The phrase "staycationing" has been used to reflect this trend... (There are lots of other new terms which have been introduced, and I produced an activity looking at this issue just under a year ago - read the blog post HERE)
Part of this is a response to the "credit crunch" and straitened financial circumstances that many families found themselves in...
There have been some interesting stories relating to the potential financial benefits for the UK economy of these holidaymakers...
I am taking 2 holidays in the UK this summer (although I was never going to be going abroad anyway...)
Will, of course, be posting lots of information and images from these holidays next month...
There are lots of Daily Mail articles from earlier in the month which put some figures onto the scale of the "staying at home", and also introduce the term "greycation" (been on a few of those myself)
Going to be writing something further on the idea of "staycationing" as part of a writing project that is going to occupy a lot of my time for the next few...er... years...
To get back to the original basis for the post, one result of us staying at home is that we aren't going abroad (natch...)
This GUARDIAN ARTICLE forms the basis for this section, as it describes how, in Benidorm, the local tourist industry has been suffering from reducing numbers in local hotels, and being supported by Spanish tourists who are similar staying at home...
Any other ideas on this area ?
While researching this, also discovered that apparently 5
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