Table of Contents
Issues in the Market
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- Main issues
- Definitions
- Abbreviations
Market In Brief
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- More holidaymakers and more frequent shorter holidays
- Holiday spend also on the up
- Holiday growth driven by independent sector
- Aviation soars despite green pressures and extra costs
- Long-haul and Eastern Europe prosper
- Travel groups adapting to market changes
- Travel agents struggling to keep up
- More variety and long-haul growth
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- Figure 1: The total holiday market by volume, 2002-12
Insights and Opportunities
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- The travelling bank
- easyForest
- My home is your home
Fast Forward Trends
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- Trend 1: Being There
- Definition
- Context
- Market touchpoints/implications
- Trend 2: Hire Hire
- Definition
- Context
- Market touchpoints/implications
- Trend 3: Life Imitating Science Fiction
- Definition
- Context
- Market touchpoints/implications
- What is Mintel Inspire?
Internal Market Environment
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- Key points:
- A move towards greener travel?
- Air passenger duty hike
- Carbon offsetting
- Rising costs of travel: fuel supplements
- More holidaymakers and more trips
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- Figure 2: Percentage of adults booking UK and overseas holidays, 2002-06
- Internet penetration
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- Figure 3: Internet penetration, by gender, socio-economic group and age, 2002-06
Broader Market Environment
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- Key points:
- Income and inflation
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- Figure 4: Trends in personal disposable income and consumer expenditure, 2002-11
- UK retailing in figures
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- Figure 5: UK: Retail sales, 2001-06
- Holidays are a must
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- Figure 6: UK spending priorities, January 2007
- Rise of ABC1s
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- Figure 7: Forecast adult population trends, by socio-economic group, 2002-11
- Third age: a third of the market
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- Figure 8: Forecast adult population trends, by lifestage, 2002-11
Competitive Context
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- Key points:
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- Figure 9: UK: Retail sales, by broad sector, 2002-05
Strengths and Weaknesses in the Market
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- Strengths
- Weaknesses
Who’s Innovating?
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- Experimenting
- Blogging
- Pod casts…
- …to travel pods
- Good causes
Market Size and Forecast
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- Key points:
- Rising holiday volume driven by outbound market
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- Figure 10: Domestic and overseas holidays volume, 2002-12
- Holiday expenditure
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- Figure 11: Domestic and overseas holidays expenditure, 2002-12
- Figure 12: Domestic and overseas holidays average spend per trip, 2002-12
Segment Performance for Overseas Holidays
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- Key points:
- And the winner is independent holidays
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- Figure 13: Inclusive holidays versus independent holidays, by volume, 2002-06
- People spend less on independent holidays
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- Figure 14: Inclusive holidays versus independent holiday – duration, spending and volume, 2005
- Long-haul and Eastern Europe experiencing major growth
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- Figure 15: Outbound holiday visits, by region visited, 2002-06
- Viva Espana, Forza Italia!
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- Figure 16: Top 20 destinations, by number of visits, 2002-05
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- Figure 17: Number of visits, nights and spending, by purpose and by country of visit, 2005
- Transport
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- Figure 18: Number of visits and spending, by mode of travel and by region and purpose of visit, 2005
- Departure airports
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- Figure 19: Passenger movements (scheduled and chartered) at UK airports, 2002-05
- Seasonality
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- Figure 20: Seasonality of holiday visits, by quarter, 2005
- Figure 21: Number of holiday visits and spending, by quarter and region, 2005
ATOL Market Share
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- Falling number of air passengers protected by ATOL
- Top ten ATOL holders
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- Figure 22: ATOL passengers carried by the top ten travel companies, 12 months to March 2002-06
- Top ten travel groups by ATOLs
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- Figure 23: Passengers licensed to top ten groups and companies, 2004/05 and 2005/06
Companies and Products
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- Key points:
- TUI UK
- 2006 in brief
- Restructuring: job cuts
- Focus on modular travel
- Performance and prospects
- Thomas Cook Group
- 2006 in brief
- Cruise focus
- Family focus
- Repositioning mass-market and scheduled offering
- Web initiatives
- Performance and prospects
- First Choice Holidays plc
- 2006 in brief
- Niche value
- Online business
- Driving the green debate
- Prospects for 2007
- MyTravel Group plc
- 2006 in brief
- Cruise prospects
- Prospects for 2007
- XL Leisure Group
- 2006 in brief
- New direct sales division
- Prospects for 2007
- Expedia
- 2006 in brief
- Developments
- Prospects for 2007
- Cosmos
- From Kent to Norfolk
- Environmental push
- Prospects for 2007
- Travelport
- 2006 in brief
- Developments
- Prospects for 2007
- Gold Medal Travel
- Developments
- Prospects for 2007
- Sabre Holdings Corporation Group
- 2006 in brief
- Technological developments
- Going green
- Prospects for 2007
Distribution
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- Key points:
- Domestic DIY
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- Figure 24: How last UK holiday was booked, 2002-06
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- Figure 25: Booking method for last UK holiday, 2003-06
- Travel agents dominate overseas holiday bookings by a whisker
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- Figure 26: How last holiday abroad was booked, 2002-06
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- Figure 27: Method used to book last holiday abroad, 2003-06
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- Figure 28: How last holiday abroad was booked, by booking method, 2006
- Internet dominates holiday research methods
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- Figure 29: Sources used to get information on last holiday, 2003-06
- More closures on the high street
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- Figure 30: Leading travel agents, by number of outlets, 2001-07
- Changes…on paper at least
The Consumer: Holidays Taken – Domestic and Abroad
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- Key points:
- Holidays taken in the last year
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- Figure 31: Holidays taken in the last 12 months, 2004-06
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- Figure 32: Holiday essentials, 2002-06
The Consumer – Holidays Abroad
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- Key points:
- Multiple holidays increasing…
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- Figure 33: Number of holidays taken, 2002-06
- …but average length diminishing
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- Figure 34: Length of last holiday abroad, 2002-06
- Beach holidays take a nose dive
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- Figure 35: Type of holiday taken for last holiday abroad, 2002-06
- Transport
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- Figure 36: Main method of travel used for last holiday abroad, 2002-06
- Accommodation
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- Figure 37: Type of accommodation for last holiday abroad, 2002-06
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- Figure 38: Timing of last overseas holiday booking, 2002-06
The Consumer: Targeting Opportunities
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- Key points:
- Target Groups: Holiday organisation
- Domestic Indies (53% of holidaymakers or 17.5 million adults)
- Packaged Abroaders (22% of holidaymakers or 7.2 million adults)
- Any Abroaders (11% of holiday makers or 3.6 million adults)
- Any Indy Travellers (8% of holidaymakers or 2.6 million adults)
- Domestic Packaged (6% of holidaymakers or 2.0 million adults)
- Target groups by demographics
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- Figure 39: Holiday organisation target groups, by gender, age, socio-economic group, household income, tenure, ACORN category, commercial TV viewing, marital status, presence of children, working status, region, media usage, supermarket usage and detailed lifestage groups, 2006
- Target groups by holidays taken
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- Figure 40: Holiday organisation target groups, by holidays taken, 2006
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