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Speaker 1: So how about this holiday bunking success? So data from

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Speaker 1: flight Center, more of us have booked to travel in

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Speaker 1: the school holes compared with last year, but there's been

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Speaker 1: a thirty percent drop in family bookings during term time.

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Speaker 1: So the government crackdown has it worked? General manager of

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Speaker 1: flight Center, Heidi Walkers with us Hiday Morning.

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 1: How sure of you are the numbers? Is this just

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Speaker 1: a sort of a first blush? It's it seems like

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Speaker 1: it could be a thing.

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Speaker 2: It's we're always looking at data. It does seem to

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Speaker 2: be a thing. Now obviously we'll continue to look at it.

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Speaker 2: That we've just been interested to see. Has the news

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Speaker 2: kind of changed the way that people are purchasing their

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Speaker 2: holidays and whether they're taking their children out of school

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Speaker 2: or not.

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Speaker 1: Because part of that, the ten percent up versus the

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Speaker 1: thirty percent down is there's something cost of living ish

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Speaker 1: in that as well. In other words, there aren't as

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Speaker 1: many people traveling.

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Speaker 2: I have no doubt that the cost of living impacts

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Speaker 2: families holiday decisions. But what we're just trying to understand

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Speaker 2: is we've still got families traveling. When are they wanting

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Speaker 2: to travel, where are they wanting to travel too? And

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Speaker 2: you know, what we are seeing is that people are

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Speaker 2: being flexible with where they want to go so they

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Speaker 2: still can have those holidays as a family because it

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Speaker 2: creates memories. And you know that is something that film

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Speaker 2: not really important enoughter COVID.

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Speaker 1: That thirty percent drop, is that mainly international or domestic

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Speaker 1: or both?

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Speaker 2: That's mainly international. The domestic market, you know, that continues

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Speaker 2: to truck along. We don't have too much with that,

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Speaker 2: but that's the international market.

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Speaker 1: And is it long haul international? It's the old look,

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Speaker 1: we're going all the way to Europe. Can we have

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Speaker 1: an extra week off school? Et cetera, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: At this stage, it looks like it's more out of

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Speaker 2: our short haul sort of destination, so our Australia and

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Speaker 2: our South paciffect, which is generally where a lot of

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Speaker 2: our families will go because of the length of time

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Speaker 2: that they can take away from you know, New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: And that whole excuse around. It's so expensive in the

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Speaker 1: school holidays and if I went a week earlier or

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Speaker 1: week after, it's so much cheaper. How true is that?

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately it is true. It is true because it's supply

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Speaker 2: and demand, so we've got more people obviously wanting to

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Speaker 2: travel to those family destinations during the school holidays, so yes,

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Speaker 2: it is true, but booking as far in advance as

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Speaker 2: you can is your best bet to get a good deal.

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Speaker 1: How many tickets have you sold to Europe for this

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Speaker 1: month and next so people can go luxury eating a

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Speaker 1: European summer.

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Speaker 2: Not as many as we would love to be selling that.

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Speaker 2: We just looked at some Java the other day and

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Speaker 2: there's still really good deals to be able to go

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Speaker 2: to Europe, obviously with the Olympics on and things like that,

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Speaker 2: but that hasn't been our core family sector, so we

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Speaker 2: don't have all of that data right now.

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Speaker 1: What's core family Fiji Gold Coast, Queenstown, Yes.

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Speaker 2: Fiji Gold Coast, Cook Islands, Rawtung is also really popular.

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Speaker 2: And then after that we do see destinations like Bali

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Speaker 2: for example, or Hawaii start to become more popular.

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Speaker 1: So why still the thing is a dump, isn't it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, last time I went it was such a

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Speaker 1: whole I wouldn't go back.

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Speaker 2: It had great shopping and beautiful beaches, so lots of

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Speaker 2: people love it, but it is essentially.

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Speaker 1: Good only heidly nice to talk to your wy and

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Speaker 1: the Muffey Heidi Walker out a flight center. It's just

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Speaker 1: rarah Tong is not warm at this time of year.

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Speaker 1: I've got a person, my daughter's boyfriend's coming back from

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Speaker 1: rarah Tonga today and it's like twenty one to twenty

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Speaker 1: two degrees, which is nice. Rarah Tong is nice, don't

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Speaker 1: get me wrong, but it's it's it's not that warm.

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