FRANKFURT (Reuters) - While German retailers hang out their summer discounts early, the wet summer is providing a boost for the country's travel firms as people turn to foreign climes for sunshine.
Tour operator Alltours said it has laid on an extra five charter planes from Duesseldorf to the Canary Islands and Majorca in response to last-minute demand from Germans, who spend more than any other nation on foreign holidays.
"The prospect of a sunny summer in Germany is fading," Alltours chief executive Willi Verhuven said on Tuesday. "That is the only way to explain why travel agents have been so busy these last few weeks."