General Article Holidays in the 1990s and now

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Since the 1990s, we’re going on more holidays... but they’re shorter than they used to be. Explore three decades of changing tourism habits.

In the last 20 years, UK tourists have turned their backs on traditional 2-week holidays in favour of short breaks and week-long trips. And one-day ‘booze cruises’ across the Channel to stock up on alcohol and cigarettes are much less common than they used to be.

Going abroad on holiday in the 1990s was very different. Hardly anyone had access to the int...

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