UK After years in which holidays at home have been associated with dreadful quality and worse weather, a cash-strapped nation is suddenly finding British tourism cool again.
A slew of hospitality operators have been parading robust sales figures suggesting the industry is the beneficiary of economic decline and reinforcing the point that a preference for the domestic sojourn over the foreign is not confined to politicians such as Gordon Brown. The prime minister is taking a break in fashionable Southwold in Suffolk, after forsaking the delights of Cape Cod, his destination of choice in the days before he had children.
