Active Travel Group reports bumper first-half buying and selling, up 26% year-on- year
Bookings throughout all product classes have carried out forward of expectation, exhibiting robust ahead momentum into 2025. Wilderness Group gross sales within the six-month interval for 31st October are up 45%, with ‘phenomenal growth’ in premium customized bookings each direct and from worldwide commerce companions.
Commenting on the new traits for subsequent summer season, Wilderness Group Managing Director, Stevie Christie feedback: ‘All things bike are speeding along for next year. Whether it’s highway biking by way of the Highlands, e-biking by way of the islands, or entering into the wilderness on our new gravel bike journeys, two wheels appears to be the way in which to journey in 2025! Also well-liked, backed by a plethora of nature documentaries throughout all streaming channels, are our wildlife journeys, with journeys to the northerly outpost of the Shetland Isles proving notably well-liked for subsequent summer season.’
Ski Solutions report bookings for this winter as ‘exceptionally positive’, pacing 19% forward of an already record-breaking prior year. Excitement is constructing for the season forward, with key resorts attributable to open from the start of December.
For the second year in succession, Norway is trending because the quickest rising vacation spot, with bookings up 75%, boosted by the addition of Gausta and Narvik, new to the programme for this winter.
Italy has additionally seen important year on year development as weekend break demand has bounced again to locations resembling Courmayeur and Cervinia. Skiers have appreciated the relative worth for cash in like for like luxurious resorts, and quick access to the mountains through Ski Solutions’ new British Airways flight from Gatwick to Turin.
Commenting on the efficiency, Group CEO Craig Burton stated: ‘With one other summer season season delivered, and with a world class NPS of 82 secured throughout the Wilderness manufacturers, we’re delighted with efficiency year thus far. The run fee development for summer season 2025 is putting in itself, however we’re additional buoyed by the pipeline of recent commerce companions the workforce are signing up for 2026 and 2027.
On Ski, we proceed to innovate and ship materials income development and profitability in a distinct segment we’re deeply enthusiastic about, and with a breadth of programme which is second to none’.