Holiday bookings to the eastern Mediterranean, including Türkiye, are surging as hotels cut prices and travellers reassess the risks following the U.S.-Iran war, with the rebound in hotel searches observed, according to a report on Sunday.
Bookings in Türkiye, the island of Cyprus and parts of north Africa were impacted following the launch of the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran at the end of February.
But demand has been rebounding steadily even before the recent cease-fire agreement, according to airlines, travel agents and industry data, a report by British daily The Financial Times (FT) indicated.
Travellers have not only become less concerned that the conflict may spread. Many also realised that some destinations that suffered a drop in bookings were hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from the hostilities, the report suggests.
Consumers “get their maps out and realise the Suez Canal is not linked to the Strait of Hormuz,” easyJet chief executive Kenton Jarvis told the FT.
