TUI Travel which owns Thomson holidays. With there rival Thomas Cook both showed strong sales in trading statements issued today.

Thomas Cook revealed that a huge number of of bookings in the UK this year have been taken online, with the bonus for holidaymakers of extra discount to do so with total tour operator bookings through the thomascook.com website up by 56% year-on-year.

Thomas Cook said package holidays were proving to be resilient and the strong position the company has created in the medium haul holiday sector is “proving particularly beneficial” in the current economic environment.

The group said it had the flexibility to adjust its products to meet consumer demand for summer 2009.

TUI said its summer 2009 programme was 12% sold with average charter selling prices up by 12%. The programme for this summer is 94% sold, three percentage points ahead of this time last last year with higher levels of discount

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