The massive growth in online travel agents and price comparison websites has caused great distress to their more traditional, high street-based competitors. The likes of Thomas Cook and Thomson are being challenged on their home turf by the enormous increase in the amount of cheap flights and budget holiday accommodation easily available on the Internet. The advent of the credit crunch and the resulting global economic downturn, led to many people looking afresh at their household budget and changing the shopping and leisure habits of a lifetime. Grocery shopping increasingly took place at the cheaper supermarkets and marketing campaigns for the supermarkets changed to reflect this. The holiday habits of UK households changed as well, with people looking to save money without sacrificing their much-needed holidays. They were greatly helped in this with the march of the budget airlines, offering cheap flights to short and medium-haul destinations that had previously been out of the pric...
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