Going it alone... 5m Britons will holiday 単独の this year

By Daily Mail Reporter
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More than five million Britons are 始める，決める to を回避する on holiday on their own this year, new 人物／姿／数字s show.

That was the 人物／姿／数字 for last year, with the number of 単独の travellers growing by five per cent over the past five years.

The 容積／容量 of 選び出す／独身 holidaymakers 増加するd from 4.9 million in 2004 to 5.1 million in 2008, market 分析家s Mintel say.

Pauline Collins in Shirley Valentine

Happy alone: Many （テニスなどの）シングルス are taking holidays alone - but few 推定する／予想する to find love like Pauline Collins in the 攻撃する，衝突する 1989 film Shirley Valentine

The rise in 単独の breaks has been driven by rising 需要・要求する の中で 選び出す／独身 people - met by an 増加するing 供給（する） of holidays 目的（とする）d 特に at attracting them.

選び出す／独身-person 世帯s now account for just under one third of all those in the UK.

As many as a third of all （テニスなどの）シングルス 老年の under 65 have holidayed alone.

More than one in eight long-運ぶ／漁獲高 holidays are taken alone, compared to one in 20 holidays 全体にわたる.

単独の travellers make a 意味ありげに high 割合 of holidaymakers travelling to Scandinavia, Austria and Switzerland, Australasia, South-East Asia and Africa.

The 目的（とする） is to get a taste of adventure, broaden their horizons and make friends - but not to find love.

The 'Shirley Valentine 影響' - 指名するd after the 1989 film starring Pauline Collins as a woman who finds romance on a Greek holiday - is 井戸／弁護士席 beyond the 期待s of most 選び出す／独身 Britons these days, with just two per cent of adults 説 they would go on holiday in search of love.

The credit crunch has 鈍らせるd growth in the 単独の travel 部門 - with many 選び出す／独身 income 世帯s 特に 攻撃を受けやすい to the 衝撃 of the 後退，不況 - but Mi ntel 推定する／予想するs その上の 漸進的な growth as the economy 回復するs.

Mintel 上級の travel 分析家 Tom Rees said: 'Although the 大多数 of holidays are still taken within the 伝統的な family or couple 部隊s, as the frequency and variety of holidays have grown in 最近の years people have ますます had the means, 願望（する） and 適切な時期 to go on holidays catering to their individual tastes.

'その結果, there has been a rise in the number of Brits travelling alone and with friends or groups outside of the 伝統的な family and couples 部隊.'

The market 可能性のある for holidays 的d at （テニスなどの）シングルス is 抱擁する and is 始める，決める to grow even more, he said.

'Between 2007 and 2031, the （テニスなどの）シングルス 全住民 in England and むちの跡s is 予測（する） to grow by 31 per cent, accounting for an 概算の 45 per cent of the total adult 全住民.' ?

However, though more 選び出す／独身 people than ever are willing to holiday 単独の, on 普通の／平均（する） they are far いっそう少なく likely to take holidays than couples and families.

Almost half of all （テニスなどの）シングルス did not go away at all last year, compared to いっそう少なく than a third of 非，不，無-（テニスなどの）シングルス.

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