Demand has been high in recent days after Monday’s announcement that coronavirus testing for fully vaccinated travellers arriving in the UK will be dropped from February 11.
But holiday sales are expected to increase dramatically this weekend as it follows the first pay day after Christmas for millions of workers.
Simon Cooper, chief executive of online travel giant On the Beach – which launched in 2004, said he believes the coming days will be “the busiest we’ve ever been in our history”.
He told the PA news agency: “We would expect it to be a bumper weekend, with people who’ve been researching holidays all the way through the month jumping on and booking.
“The overall volume has been warming up through the month.”
Scrapping the requirement for fully vaccinated arrivals to take a pre-departure test earlier this month sparked the rise in demand.
Mr Cooper said he believes the number of people going on foreign holidays this summer will…
