- Advantage Travel Partnership chief executive Julia Lo Bue-Said has renewed calls to shorten the traditional six-week school summer break.
- The industry consortium, alongside the UK Outbound Travel Group, proposes redistributing two summer weeks to the October and February half-terms.
- It is argued that concentrating family travel into six weeks inflates holiday prices and overburdens airports, airlines, and resorts.
- Increasingly hot European summers during July and August are also making mid-summer travel more challenging for holidaymakers.
- Currently, parents in England face fines of £80 per child for taking pupils out of school for unauthorised term-time holidays.
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School holidays should be shortened to reduce pressure on families, says travel expert
