Brexit comments?

Travel to the UK will not be affected a whit; probably increase, as it usually does. Clients have not expressed any concerns and in the context of world affairs, countries have been re-configured with little long term consequence. The worst outcome is Scotland will separate - but that has been hundreds of years in the coming. The Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Pakistan, and others to name a few went through wrenching changes and hardly anyone remembers now! And that was in the last 30 years. Today the great Mongol empire is relegated to Inner Mongolia, The Vikings are peaceable Norway. Britain will survive, and probably thrive together or separately. To expect the British preserving spirit to disappear would be sheer disappointment. Norm Payne.

After the short term Shock and Awe dissipates, leisure travel to England will pick up on the strength of the dollar over the pound. Business travel, is a different matter; it depends on how the various contracts are renegotiated- Some folks (like IATA) are predicting serious drops in traffic. I feel those predictions are too dire, but the business traffic will drop in/out of England enough to make it sting. I am more concerned with a probable drop in English leisure traffic to North America. This will have US tour operators scrambling to fill tours in the next few years.