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Spending with travel agents up by more than 10% in 2023

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Harry Kemble
2 January 2024

The travel sector continued to thrive in 2023 with both travel agents (10.4%) and airlines (30.8%) seeing robust consumer spending growth, according to new data.  

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Barclays’ report revealed the number of transactions with travel agents rose by 11.8% this year (Credit: Pixabay/ Pexels)

Barclays’ latest spending report also revealed the number of transactions with travel agents rose by 11.8% year-on-year and 28.7% with airlines. 


The figures relate to 1 January and 25 November 2023, and have been compared with the same period in 2022. 


Across the same period in 2023, non-essential spending increased by 4.2% year-on-year, while non-essential transaction growth rose by 3.9%.