This weekend, Europe’s fastest growing tour operator, easyJet holidays, kicked off it’s summer 2023 season, more than doubling its number of customers jetting off on their holiday. The package holiday provider marked the start of the season with customers arriving into Europe’s most loved holiday hotspots for the first time this year, including Menorca, Ibiza, Corfu and Bodrum, bringing the total number of destinations on offer up to 129.

Dalaman, Mallorca and Tenerife led the way as the top three destinations for the first weekend of the season. easyJet holidays is also continuing to expand its offering for the season, with over 30 hotels added to its portfolio in the last couple of months alone, and over 50 more set to be added this season, contributing to an already wide-ranging offering of over 5000 hotels now open for the summer season.

It’s also gearing up for the bigger season in partnership with its Destination Management Companies, and expanded meet and greet teams by 50% across the network, on hand to help customers enjoy their brilliant holidays at unbeatable value. The tour operator has also expanded it’s 24/7 on-holiday support team, with experts available to help customers with any queries whilst on holiday.   

Garry Wilson, CEO easyJet holidays, said:

“We’re so excited to kick off our summer 2023 season. As the UK’s fastest growing travel company, we’re looking forward to doing what we do best over the coming months – delivering brilliant holidays to the hundreds of thousands of customers who have chosen us to provide their summer getaway.

“This will be our second fully operational summer and I can’t wait to share it with our customers, travel agent partners, hotel partners and all those on the ground in our fantastic holiday destinations who work hard to help us provide brilliant holidays day in, day out.”

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About easyJet holidays:

easyJet holidays offers great-value beach, city and lakes holidays to more than 100 destinations across Europe, directly through its website and through over 3000 travel agent partners. The ATOL-protected holidays company combines easyJet’s flexible flight programme, with handpicked hotels and best-in-class technology to provide hassle-free personalised holiday experiences which can be secured with a deposit of just £60 per person. The holidays operator is an ABTA member too, providing additional reassurance to customers under the UK’s most trusted travel scheme. With a range of holiday types, from adult and family to luxury and undiscovered, transfers included on beach holidays, 23kg hold luggage included on all bookings, and over 5,000 hotels, across over 500 resorts, customers can holiday the way they want.

In 2021 easyJet holidays launched its inaugural sustainability strategy focusing on three key pillars – create better holiday choices which is about making sustainable travel affordable and accessible to everyone; keep our holidays special which is maximising the benefits and minimising the negative impacts of travel and tourism, and transform travel for everyone which means embedding sustainability into business decisions and behaviours and driving meaningful change in the industry. Through ongoing collaboration with the Travel Foundation, the University of Oxford, and as a member of the GSTC, easyJet holidays is focused on building its research, partnerships and certifications, and taking action to make a positive impact on the people and places that make its destinations so special.