Industry outlook and bookings survey – Summer 2025 and beyond

Booking Trends

This survey is designed to gather important data to support the industry’s ongoing advocacy efforts, including booking trends and the latest financial situation facing UK travel businesses.

All data collected will be anonymised and aggregated and will only be used for the purpose of assisting industry advocacy.

Please note that the questions relating to bookings in 2025 are compared with bookings in 2024.

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Closing date: 14 November 2025 at 5pm.

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* 1. Please indicate which associations you are a Member of (tick all that apply):

ABTA - The Travel Association

The Advantage Travel Partnership

AITO - The Specialist Travel Association

ATTA - African Travel and Tourism Association

ANITA - Association of Northern Ireland Travel Agents

ATAS - The Association of Touring & Adventure Suppliers

BTA - Business Travel Association

CLIA - Cruise Lines International Association

ETOA - European Tourism Association

LATA - Latin American Travel Association

PATA - Pacific Asia Travel Association

SBIT - Seasonal Businesses in Travel

SPAA - Scottish Passenger Agents Association

The Travel Network Group

UKInbound

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* 2. Please indicate which applies to your business

a travel agent operating from commercial premises

a self-employed travel agent working from home

a tour operator (primarily outbound)

a tour operator (primarily inbound)

a travel management company

a cruise company

a coach tour operator

a destination management company

other (please specify)

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* 3. How many staff does your business currently have?

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* 4. How many staff did your business have on 1 May 2024?

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* 5. Looking at individual bookings made (successful departures/arrivals) between 1 May 2025 and 31 October 2025 by volume, how does this compare with bookings in the same period in 2024?

Answers should be given as a percentage. Taking 2,000 bookings in 2025 and 20,000 in 2024 would be 10%. Increases in booking volumes should be reported with a figure over 100% - if you took 20,000 bookings in 2024 and 22,000 in this period, that would be 110%.

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* 6. Looking at individual bookings made (successful departures/arrivals) between 1 May 2025 and 31 October 2025 by value, how does this compare with bookings in the same period in 2024?

Answers should be given as a percentage. If your bookings were worth £200,000 in the most recent period and £2,000,000 in 2014, this would be 10%. Increases in booking values should be reported with a figure over 100% - if your bookings were worth £2,200,000 in the most recent period but only £2,000,000 in 2024, that would be reported as 110%.

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* 7. In terms of budgets (thinking about what customers are wanting to spend)

Customers are looking to spend more.

Customers are looking to spend less.

Customers are looking to spend about the same amount as before.

Not applicable

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* 8. How well are you expecting trading to go during the upcoming 2025/26 winter period compared to the same period last year?

Better than last year

Worse than last year

The same

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* 9. Please rate your overall confidence in trading right now - where 100% is high confidence and 0 is low confidence

0 - low confidence

100 - high confidence

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