Greece now the Favourite European Holiday Destination for Real Holidaymakers

Greece now the Favourite European Holiday Destination for Real Holidaymakers

RAINFORD, England, January 27/PRNewswire/ -- RealHolidayReports.com ran an online survey on its website last month.
The question was posed "Where is your favourite European Holiday
Destination". Almost 2000 people completed the survey and the result would
seem to indicate that Greece has overtaken Spain as the UK holidaymakers
favoured location.



http://www.realholidayreports.com/surveys/



34% of respondents voted for Greece, followed by 29% for Spain and close
behind 24% for Turkey. So has Spain's domination of the UK holiday market
been broken?



RealHolidayReports.com is an independent website where real people report
back on real holidays and was launched in 2001.



RealHolidayReports.com is aimed at the 17 million UK holidaymakers(1) who
take package holidays abroad each year, and want more independent and
truthful information before they book rather than just relying on a paragraph
in a travel sales brochure.



Gary Hewitt, marketing director, said, "Other than buying a house or car
the annual holiday is many people's largest expense of the year. The average
cost, including spending money, for a family holiday abroad is close to
GBP2500 based on people we interviewed. And most are booking this on the
strength of a small description in a travel brochure."



The database behind the site has over 500 resorts worldwide, with well
over 10000 reports submitted online by users. Approximately 85% of the
reports submitted are favourable with the remainder ranging from
unsatisfactory to hellish. The reports can vary from one word to a number of
paragraphs. As well as being informative many of the reports are quite
humorous.



Gary Hewitt added: "The website has proved to be an extremely popular
resource for holidaymakers when choosing their next holiday. The response to
this survey is an indication of people wanting to be part of a community and
feeling that their vote counts." In fact the website has almost become a
victim of its own success as the site had to be migrated to a new server and
hosting package in December 2004, to cater for the number of visitors and
bandwidth requirements.



Note to Editors:



1 - ABTA figures



RealHolidayReports.com is an internet web production of
RealHolidayReports.com Limited which is a Private Limited company registered
in England.



Source: RealHolidayreports.com

Contact: Gary Hewitt, info@realholidayreports.com or telephone on +44(0)7930-228945


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