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Full impact of cost-of-living crisis to come, warns On the Beach

City and finance
James Chapple
24 May 2022

On the Beach has warned travel is yet to feel the full impact of the cost-of-living crisis with sales soaring for the summer, and beyond, as the sector seeks to emerge from the Covid crisis.

On the Beach also reported "good progress" in B2B and long-haul

The group, the UK’s largest OTA, on Tuesday (24 May) revealed it had trimmed its first-half pre-tax loss (six months to 31 March 2022) by two-thirds to £7 million, while group revenue has increased to £52.9 million compared with just £4.4 million a year ago as sales rebound.


Booked sales growth for the half is up 6% compared with H1 2019, despite the effects of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and the government-imposed travel restrictions imposed as a result. Growth, said the group, is based exclusively on new cash bookings rather than redemption of vouchers or refund credit notes.