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FRED.\ HOLIDAYS and Maritim Hotels recently hosted an educational to Germany's Franconia. The itinerary included visits to<br />
Nuremberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Würzburg and also included a baking competition. Pictured in Nuremberg are, from the<br />
left: Sarah Taylor, Westway <strong>Travel</strong>; Martina Weber, Nuremberg Tourist Board; Tina Jarman, Abacus <strong>Travel</strong>; Alison Green, Fred.\<br />
Holidays; Leroy Sheppard, Maritim Hotels; Lucy Bexfield, Fred. Olsen <strong>Travel</strong>; Celia Lemos, Gallivant <strong>Travel</strong>; Micky Telford, Stowaway<br />
<strong>Travel</strong>; and Olivia Powell, East of England Co-Operative <strong>Travel</strong>.<br />
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Winter sunshine breaks look full of Eastern Promise according to Post Office report<br />
AS THE new term marks the end of the summer holidays,<br />
the winter sun forecast looks bright for a quartet of Far<br />
Eastern destinations, which have emerged as the biggest<br />
success story in Post Office <strong>Travel</strong> Money’s Fastest Growing<br />
Currencies report for June-August.<br />
Booming currency demand for Thailand, Vietnam, Bali<br />
and Malaysia helped the Far East destinations fill four of<br />
the top ten growth slots in Post Office <strong>Travel</strong> Money’s report<br />
on summer sales compared with June-August 2016. That<br />
success is part of a bigger growth trend in the year to date,<br />
when compared with the first eight months of 2016, and<br />
gives good grounds to predict that UK visitors will be<br />
heading east for winter sun in the coming months.<br />
The biggest surge in demand has been for the Thai baht.<br />
The annual review of summer bestsellers by the UK’s<br />
biggest foreign currency provider reports year-on-year<br />
sales growth of 69% for the Thai baht between June and<br />
August as well as a year-on-year increase of almost a third<br />
(31%) for the first eight months of <strong>2017</strong>.<br />
Elsewhere in the Far East there has been a significant rise in<br />
currency demand compared with a year ago. Post Office sales<br />
of the Vietnamese dong surged 29% for June-August and rose<br />
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28% in <strong>2017</strong> to date, while the Indonesian rupiah made<br />
summer gains of 13%, which contributed to a 40% rise in <strong>2017</strong><br />
to date. Demand for the Malaysian ringgit rose 7% during<br />
the summer and 18% for January-August.<br />
But none of the Far Eastern currencies was able to<br />
match the performance of the New Zealand dollar. Fuelled<br />
by strong demand for visits to New Zealand during the<br />
Lions summer rugby tour, NZ dollar sales rose 124% yearon-year<br />
between June and August. Not only did this make<br />
the New Zealand dollar the Post Office <strong>Travel</strong> Money’s<br />
Fastest Growing Currency during the summer months but<br />
also for the year to date (overall sales +45%).<br />
Andrew Brown of Post Office <strong>Travel</strong> Money said: “While the<br />
exodus of sports fans to destinations staging big tournaments<br />
is now well established, the devotion shown by rugby<br />
enthusiasts for the Lions summer tour of New Zealand has<br />
been impressive. In June we saw a 266% rise in New Zealand<br />
dollar sales, indicating that significant numbers of rugby<br />
fans were following the team Down Under. Interestingly,<br />
sales have remained very healthy over the past month,<br />
suggesting New Zealand will be popular this winter.<br />
“Looking forward to the autumn and winter, there is<br />
every reason to expect that UK tourists will head east for<br />
long-haul holidays if our summer currency sales are<br />
anything to go by. Savvy travellers know that prices in<br />
Thailand, Bali, Vietnam and Penang are cheap and in times<br />
when the value of sterling is uncertain, low resort costs are<br />
proving a big draw.”<br />
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