More Brits Plan to Escape UK for Active Christmas Experience

More and more people are trading in the trifle for travel and escaping the U.K. for more far flung regions over the holiday season, said a leading specialist tour operator.

Waymark Holidays, which runs cross country skiing and other snow experience tours in the winter, said bookings for their Christmas trips continue to rise every year, prompting them to add extra departures to their programme.

Managing director Neil Saunders said people increasingly want a unique way of spending the festive season, and many of their tours get right into the festive spirit as a result.

The popularity of their Christmas-time tours has prompted Waymark Holidays to add new Christmas and New Year departures on their Quatretondeta walking tour in Spain with a particularly festive itinerary.

Walking is varied with plenty of routes to choose from including gorges, peaks, ridges, rock pinnacles, broad forest tracks, ancient Moorish trails, rough paths or even mountain scrambling if you feel so inclined, while on Christmas day there will be a special Spanish celebratory dinner.