European heatwave leaves travel giants cold

With people having basked for weeks in record temperatures in their own backyards, there’s no sign of the late-season sales surge that typically accompanies wetter, cooler summers

The dried-up river bed of the Rhine in Dusseldorf. Pic: Getty

The European heatwave has left people in Germany and Britain with little appetite for more hot weather, leading to a dearth of late-summer holiday reservations and sending shares oftravel giant TUI tumbling by almost 10 per cent at one stage on Thursday.

With people having basked for weeks in record temperatures in their own backyards, there’s no sign of the late-season sales surge that typically accompanies wetter, cooler summers, Germany-based TUI said.

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