Britain’s summer weather has improved, but many holiday operators are still gloomy

Owners of hotels and rental cottages say the cost of living crisis has depressed bookings this year

‘It has been awful,” said Russell Beale, who has been running a holiday cottage sleeping four on the Devon coast for 14 years. “Typically, we’re let for 26-34 weeks a year and full from Easter until the end of September. This year we’ve had less than 10 weeks of bookings.”

As the summer weather improved in August, he said, things had picked up a bit: “People seem to be leaving it really, really late.” Continue reading...