The price of package holidays, which are supposed to offer the best value for money at home or abroad, rose by 12.4% in the EU between January and May, following an increase of 11.5% last year, the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) said in a press release on Wednesday 19 July.
This is “the biggest increase in the cost of package holidays since records began in 1996”, adds the ETUC, which deplores the repercussions on families’ ability to go on holiday.
“Residents of...