Travel affordability matters: how Booking.com helps consumers save and make informed choices
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Travel affordability matters: how Booking.com helps consumers save and make informed choices

What does it take for a family to afford a week away? Today, Eurostat estimates that for more than one in four Europeans the answer is that they can’t. Rising prices and tighter household budgets mean that millions are being priced out of the chance...

Peter Lochbihler
Peter Lochbihler
Global Director Public Affairs, Booking.com
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Travel affordability matters: how Booking.com helps consumers save and make informed choices
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