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Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show 2023, Manchester

16 - 19 January 2025 | Manchester Central

Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show 2025, Manchester

16 - 19 January 2025 | Manchester Central

Benefits of Exhibiting

Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show

Be Part Of The UK's Largest Consumer Travel Event

Why Exhibit?

Why Exhibit?

Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show
Trusted by travellers for over a quarter of a century Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Shows, in association with The Times and The Sunday Times, have established themselves as the leading consumer events within the travel market.

The previous shows in 2024 at Olympia London and Manchester Central attracted 75,000 active, passionate and affluent travellers, looking to discover the very best in new travel experiences and the latest hotspots.

Exhibiting at the shows gives your business access to these customers as they actively plan and book their journeys for the year ahead and beyond.

NEXT SHOW IN THE NORTH: 16 - 19 January 2025, Manchester Central

NEXT SHOW IN THE SOUTH: 30 January - 2 February 2025, Olympia London

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Benefits of Exhibiting

Benefits of Exhibiting

The two Destinations events showcase over 600 brands spanning tourist boards, tour operators, travel agents, airlines and more, giving visitors ample opportunity to research, plan and find inspiration for their holidays.

  • Meet face-to-face with over 80,000 affluent and passionate travellers
  • Generate bookings both onsite at the event and afterwards
  • Build brand awareness
  • Align your brand with over 600 of the best travel operators, travel agents, tourist boards, airlines, hotel groups and more
  • Align your brand with the leading publications in travel including The Times and The Sunday Times
  • Benefit from the extensive marketing campaign for the shows

Our Visitors

Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show has a proven track record of delivering unrivalled numbers of active, passionate and affluent travellers.
A recent survey carried out in February 2023 amongst past attendees of Destinations Manchester showed the following results ...

Average Age

The average age of the Destinations visitor is 58-71 years

Annual Spend

On average, our visitors plan to spend £6,684 on holidays per person in the coming year

Total Spend

£207 million: the estimated total spend on travel, in 2023 by Destinations Manchester visitors

82%

of visitors are more likely to buy from travel brands they met at Destinations  

76%

are asked for holiday advice by family and friends

91%

of visitors would recommend the brands they meet at the show to friends and family

86%

of visitors fall within the top 3 ACORN categories:  Affluent Achievers, Rising Prosperity and Comfortable Communities

88%

definitely or likely to attend the next Destinations Manchester in early 2024

Destinations: The Holiday & Travel Show_Trailfinders
  • It was great to be back at Destinations Manchester again for 2023. Our stand was busy with consistent footfall throughout and it was a fantastic opportunity to re-engage with visitors and get them excited about visiting Malta.
    Louise Zammit
    Visit Malta
  • The Holiday & Travel Show Manchester was managed professionally and attending the show as a first time exhibitor and a small tour operator was daunting. Clarion and in particular the marketing department removed the complexity from the set up by setting up a call to discuss requirements for the show and also by providing effective comms to action just in time.
    Brett Peters
    Uniquely Galapagos
  • This was our first exhibition with Destinations in Manchester. The quality of customers was particularly good on Thurs & Fri. These were serious customers looking to book their holiday! Overall the show was a great success for us and will be looking to return next year.
    Michelle Daniels
    American Queen Voyages
  • Destinations Manchester doesn’t fail in delivering high quality visitors and we are always delighted with the calibre of the show. It provides Thailand Tourism with a unique opportunity to meet travellers face to face and is an important part of how we promote Thailand to the UK market.
    Chris Lee
    Tourism Authority of Thailand
  • We are always delighted to be at Destinations Manchester and 2023 did not disappoint. We had a good footfall throughout and met many visitors, both old and new. We’re really looking forward to being there next year.
    Katie Leigh
    Hurtigruten
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