Cairo is second-cheapest holiday destination in the world in 2017, according to airport transfer website Hoppa. The website says you can pick up a night’s stay in a hotel, a meal for two and a bottle of wine, a 3km taxi ride, a coffee, a cocktail, and a beer in Cairo for a total of GBP 39.09 (sounds a bit ambitious to us). Beating Cairo to the top spot was Sofia, Bulgaria. On the other end of the list, the most expensive holiday destinations on the list were Zurich, New York, and Copenhagen, respectively.

Mini-breaks overtake summer vacation in the UK: Speaking of cheap travel, the Financial Times is noting an interesting trend among UK holidaymakers: multiple mini-breaks for a weekend have replaced the standard summer vacation. Each UK resident making almost 50% more foreign trips last year than they did in 1996 thanks to a surge in popularity for multiple shorter vacations and city mini-breaks, according to data from the Office for National Statistics. This trend comes on the back of low-cost and charter airlines such as Ryanair and Easyjet — airlines which were actively courted by our Tourism Ministry as part of its strategy to revitalize tourism.

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