Cheapflights sees firm favourites dominate short breaks
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With another Bank Holiday on the horizon, a look at the most popular recent destinations for short breaks by www.cheapflights.co.uk, the UK's leading online guide to travel deals, revealed that old favourites Amsterdam, Barcelona and Prague are the top hot spots for short breaks for Spring 2003.
The top ten short break destinations were compiled by www.cheapflights.co.uk, from their site users, following a recent expansion of its website which now includes over 90 city and beach based short break destinations. The short breaks section allows viewers to compare and contrast the very best breaks currently available. Other top ten destinations, chosen by Cheapflights users, include Paris, New York and Seville. Viewers looking for somewhere new can now select Bordeaux, Cape Town, Rotterdam or St Petersburg.
This new, improved short break section currently publishes over 10,000 deals for breaks of one to five nights. Speaking about the Short breaks section, David Soskin, CEO for Cheapflights Ltd said: "We are delighted how this section has become such an important part of our site for viewers. Booking short breaks on-line has become almost as simple as booking a flight!"
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Notes to Editors
Cheapflights pioneered travel on the Internet in 1996 and is the only leading UK travel website that is privately-owned and consistently profitable.
Cheapflights provides an online guide to the best deals available from across the travel industry in the UK and Ireland. The company's most recent external audit of its site traffic revealed 1.3million unique users (ABCe) in January 2003. It is conservatively estimated that use of the site by consumers has led to travel product sales of circa £300 million a year, through its advertising partners. 500 travel industry advertisers currently provide their deals for publication on Cheapflights.co.uk. These include British Airways and Thomson as well as specialist operators like Barwell Travel and Journey Latin America.
Cheapflights' mission is to be the No. 1 guide to travel deals within each market in which it operates. In addition to Cheapflights.co.uk, Cheapflights Ltd owns a number of travel websites, across different international markets, and also operates Cheapnights.com, the global accommodation website.
