As the Easter getaway approaches, some tour operators in the UK are reporting an impromptu boom in holiday bookings to warmer destinations including the Mediterranean, triggered by March's extreme weather.
Not a minute too soon, as quarterly data from leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight, 'Holidays - Issue 16', which profiles consumer search behaviour in this vertical, found that in February, a key selling period for the travel sector, UK consumer online searches for holidays totalled 1.2 million, down significantly on November's 2.9 million.
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Not a minute too soon, as quarterly data from leading independent digital marketing agency, Greenlight, 'Holidays - Issue 16', which profiles consumer search behaviour in this vertical, found that in February, a key selling period for the travel sector, UK consumer online searches for holidays totalled 1.2 million, down significantly on November's 2.9 million.
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