Newcastle is one of mainland Europe's favourite holiday destination for August 2022

Flight and hotel searches exceed those of 2019, the year before the pandemic

The recovery of tourism is fully confirmed, after the hard years of the pandemic, it seems that the fear of the coronavirus has been left behind and the desire to travel and enjoy a well-deserved holiday is stronger, and, according to the powerful flight and hotel search engine jetcost.

Searches for flights have increased by 250 per cent, while those for hotels have increased by 330 per cent in the first seven months of this year 2022. In fact, searches for August 2022 holidays are already 30 per cent above those for the same month in 2019. In addition, users spend 50 per cent more time searching for different solutions, budgets and alternative dates to find the offer that best suits their needs.

And a big number of Europeans who have decided to travel during the August holidays in 2022 are going to the United Kingdom.

Jetcost UK regularly analyses the searches done through its website, so the data obtained are very reliable, as they are real searches and not surveys. The data analysis the results of flight searches for the month of August 2022, indicate that a large majority of tourists have opted for Newcastle, which has been the ninth most wanted city in the UK for the Dutch and Portuguese and eleventh for the Spanish.

On the banks of the River Tyne in the north-east of England, the ever-bustling city of Newcastle was a major player in the region’s Industrial Revolution and retains its neat Victorian buildings and solid industrial remains, alongside modern marvels such as the imposing Millennium Bridge. It’s a lively city thanks to its student population and its friendly inhabitants, known as “Geordies”.

Ignazio Ciarmoli, Jetcost’s marketing director, said: “Normality is here and with it comes the millions of tourists who visited every summer before the pandemic.

“UK’s cities remain major global tourist destinations, with their cultural richness, attractions, coastline and landscapes, popular traditions, castles, churches and monuments, and good hotels and infrastructures continuing to attract a big number of tourists, and especially Newcastle, which is one of the Europeans’ favourite destination.

“On the other hand, many Britons have chosen the main European cities and Spanish sun and beach destinations, where good prices, rich gastronomy and nightlife continue attracting UK’s tourists”.

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