Category: News & Trending

At the start of May, after a decline in audience immediately following the lockdown announcement, users to Auto Trader Motorhome and Caravan have been steadily increasing, according to Auto Trader’s blog. In the week commencing 18th May, users across the two platforms had grown by 17% versus the same time last year and had more...

The second wave of VisitBritain’s COVID-19 Consumer Weekly Tracker has been published.  There is a rise (+5% to 29%) in the number of people whose perceptions of the situation regarding Covid-19 is that the ‘worst has passed’.  However, there is a small reduction in the number of people (-3%) who are very or fairly confident...

MPs Karl Turner (Hull East), Emma Hardy (Hull West & Hessle) and Diana Johnson (Kingston upon Hull North) have written to the Chancellor, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, with a request for urgent support for the caravan manufacturing industry. Read more here.

VisitBritain has commissioned a weekly tracking survey to understand domestic intent to take short breaks and holidays both within the UK and abroad, with a focus around the current barriers and concerns around travel and how these will evolve over time. The first wave was published on 1 June 2020. The survey will address: the...

Government has announced that a new flexible furloughing scheme is now to be brought forward to start on 1 July. This new scheme will mean employers can bring back furloughed employees for any amount of time and on any shift pattern, while still being able to claim CJRS grant for their normal hours not worked....

The NCC is delighted to be able to confirm that leisure vehicle dealerships and distributors will be permitted to re-open, along with certain other non-essential retail businesses in England from next Monday (I June). This is providing the businesses adhere to social distancing and hygiene protocols and have undertaken suitable risk assessments.  The NCC says...

SMMT (the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders) has announced that British car production fell -99.7% in April, with 197 units made as coronavirus pandemic closes factories. They report that this is the lowest monthly output since the Second World War and it drives year-to-date production down -27.6%, with 121,811 fewer cars built. The outlook...

This year, the English Tourism Week’s campaign (25-31 May) focuses on engagement with Government, MPs and other stakeholders, to support the recovery of English tourism. ETW highlights the importance, value and vast contribution the sector makes to the UK economy;  English tourism generates £106 billion a year and supports 2.6 million jobs – read more...

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) released its latest Coronavirus, the UK economy and society faster indicators on 14 May.  Of UK businesses that responded to ONS’s fortnightly Business Impact of Coronavirus Survey (BICS) for the period 20 April to 3 May 2020, 44% of businesses who had not permanently ceased trading in the fortnight...

Government now says that the UK is to move to the next phase in the fight against coronavirus, and it has changed the messaging to ‘stay alert’. (This applies in England only – people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should follow the specific rules in those parts of the UK.) As part of this...