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Peaks drives travel to third-biggest leap in January spending growth

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Ilaria Grasso Macola
6 February 2024

Strong growth in turn-of-year spending on travel helped drive up non-essential purchasing in the UK by 2.6% in January, according to new consumer card data from Barclays.

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The bank’s latest spending report, based on the period from 25 December 2023 to 19 January 2024, reveals spending on travel as a whole increased by 8.9% year-on-year last month, outpaced only by spending on digital content and subscriptions (11.4%) and "other services" (9.6%).