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A TOUGH YEAR: Reports holiday boat businesses

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November 21, 2024

Tim Greenfield reports… HIRE boat operators are reporting a disappointing 2024 season with bookings down as customers look for ‘cheaper’ holidays. A combination of poor weather at the start of the year and the credit crunch affecting families all hit bookings and affected the core summer business. And a rise in business costs, including the…
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Top destinations for 2023

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January 16, 2023

FROM rural retreats to vibrant city centres, narrowboat holidaymakers can use their boat as a floating holiday home to explore Britain’s network of inland waterways. There’s a great choice of hundreds of waterside destinations and canalside pubs to stop off at along the way. Here are Drifters’ waterways holidays’ top canal boat holidays for 2023:…
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Boat Hire – the busiest season ever!

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Janet Richardson

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November 17, 2021

Cheryl Howes of Kate Boats with the latest news from Drifters – a consortium of independent self-drive hire boat companies set up to promote enjoyment of canal holidays. AS THE main boating season draws to a close, we can reflect back on probably the busiest season for the hire boat industry ever! We missed the…
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Adventure afloat: Yorkshire’s canal boat holidays to restart

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Shannon Butcher

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April 6, 2021

Canal boating holidays will be available again from 12 April as the lockdown eases – and Yorkshire boating firms are being kept busy as many holidaymakers look to stay in the UK this year. Waterways and wellbeing charity Canal & River Trust, which looks after 500km of the region’s waterways, is urging people to try…
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