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Upward trend in spending with travel agents continues in December – Barclays

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Ilaria Grasso Macola
7 January 2025

Growth in consumer spending with travel agents continued its upward trend in December with agents seeing the largest year-on-year growth of all-but one other sector, new figures from Barclays show.

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Consumer spending on travel agents grow 7.5% in December, according to Barclays data (Credit: iStock)

Consumer spending with travel agents grew by 7.5% year-on-year in December, up from 7.3% in November, and was matched only by growth in spending on digital content and subscription (also 7.5%).

 

Agents also enjoyed the largest year-on-year increase in total transactions of any of the sectors monitored by Barclays following a 17.8% year-on-year increase in December. This compares with year-on-year growth in transactions of 15.6% in November.