And so the holidays are here again. Several different holiday research companies have announced that vacation bookings have already risen since last year by 1.6%. Although this isn’t a huge number, this is an increase that hasn’t been expected this early, holidays were expected to carry on decreasing.

A retail firm in New York has released information that they predict an increase in holiday sales next year to be even more. Shopper Trak is a Retail research company that has predicted rises in holiday bookings in the next holiday season. Bookings for holidays next year, started as early as August, and have been increasing right through into October. Because this year has been bad for holiday bookings, it is expected that next year bookings will rise. Bookings to locations around the world are expected to increase, however those to North America and locations on the Equator are on the rise.

Although the overall amount of searches for holidays has come down, people have been a little more adventurous with what they spend there money on. The sign that we are booking yet even more holidays must mean that we are slowly getting rid of our money problems.

The most popular holidays are; Egypt holidays, America holidays, and strangely Cuba holidays. These three places seem to be getting the highest level of enquiries. In England more than 160,000 people a month (Albeit some the same each month) enquire only about Egypt holidays.

When looking at some of the holidays being booked it becomes clear that Caribbean holidays, Indian Ocean holidays and Africa holidays are going to be among the most popular in the future. These all together receive the most amounts of enquiries than any other holiday. Other Tour Operators have speculated that the Dominican Republic will be the place to holiday, probably due to the refurbishment of the islands image that the Government is attempting to clean up.Holidays to locations around the world, are on the rise, now we need to keep them increasing as well.