Is energy tourism a new travel trend? A winter escape could be cheaper than paying your bills

A UK firm is encouraging travellers to e-book a winter vacation to keep away from excessive vitality payments.

TravelTime World launched a advertising and marketing marketing campaign final Friday known as ‘The Warmth Is On’ highlighting the low price per day of long-stay holidays.

Ashley Quint, a vacation designer on the firm, stated the thought happened after experiences that the energy price cap within the UK might be as excessive as £7,000 (€8,120) a yr by April 2023.

What’s the price per day of spending this winter overseas?

An 80 per cent rise within the vitality value cap was confirmed from October that would take the typical UK family’s fuel and electrical energy invoice as much as £3,549 (€4,116) a yr. The following rise between January and March might trigger it to skyrocket as much as £5,000 (€5,799). 

Forecasters are now predicting that it could rise as excessive as £7,700 (€8931) by April.

“£7,000 works out to be about £20 (€23) a day on vitality – and from our personal expertise, proper this very second my colleague’s good meter at house is £10 (€12) per day, and that’s with out the heating on,” Quint tells Euronews Journey.

For comparability, off-peak locations like Malta, southern Spain and Portugal, he says, are extraordinarily good worth in January and February. The climate can also be nonetheless nice and heat.

“From doing the analysis over the past couple of weeks – it’s very potential to get a resort and condo (together with flights and transfers) for round £20-25 (€23-29) per night time, based mostly on staying 4 weeks.”

Hotter locations just like the Canary Islands are prone to be costlier. Regardless of having even cheaper per day prices, flights to locations additional afield also can wrack up the general value however there are nonetheless methods to make it work.

“Going lengthy haul, the flights are costlier, however lodging and the cost of living is cheaper, so that you want a fairly lengthy period to make it related,” Quint explains.

“Definitely in locations like Thailand it’s achievable for not that rather more when you unfold it over a month or two, actually lower than £50 (€58) per particular person per night time.”

Are folks already going overseas to keep away from rising vitality prices?

The preliminary thought was that the marketing campaign would enchantment to those that are retired, however with extra distant employees as of late, there’s wider scope for folks to spend an prolonged time overseas.

It nonetheless requires fairly a little bit of flexibility {that a} majority of individuals don’t have and the cash to pay for the price of lodging and flights upfront – a tough ask through the escalating price of dwelling disaster. Spending winter out of the country undoubtedly isn’t a silver bullet answer to rising vitality payments.

Nonetheless, some travellers are already making the most of the chance.

“We’ve got purchasers on an extended Caribbean cruise for six weeks in November, a shopper travelling round Australia for Christmas and New 12 months for a few months and a single woman taking a cruise to the Caribbean for Christmas and New 12 months which can also be six weeks lengthy,” Quint says.

He provides that cruises are nice worth for cash – they embody meals and typically even excursions – together with escorted excursions, particularly to Asia. 

“I’m additionally serving to a household who’re taking a yr sabbatical with preparations in travelling round South America for the winter.”