Gary Gillespie, managing director of The Travel Network Group's homeworking arm Independent Travel Experts, told TTG cruise now accounts for nearly a fifth (18%) of the group's overall destination mix, while Ramsbottom-based Designer Travel said cruise bookings during the early stages of peaks were currently up by two-thirds (66%) compared with last year.
Travel Counsellors is another business seeing "strong performance" across ocean and river cruising, up 17% year-on-year, a statistic global sales director Jim Eastwood said “reflected an ongoing appetite for carefully curated, highly immersive and inclusive travel experiences”.
