Apparently (Times 28th December) it is the peak season for skiing holidays. In 2024 short breaks from Thursday to Monday are popular avoiding travel on a Saturday, the busiest day. The most popular location is Chamonix in France which is an hour from Geneva airport.
Perhaps unsurprisingly the popularity of ski-ing holidays is closely related to the state of capitalism
Numbers slumped after the 2008 financial crash and after Brexit but were recovering until the impact of the pandemic in 2020. They were hit again in 2022-23 due to the impact of Liz Truss and rising mortgage rates.
It would only the most enthusiastic Starmer fan who would claim that the UK economy is doing well (others might suggest that EU economies are performing badly too beyond the interest of the parochial UK media) clearly the well to do who do skiing at this time of year don’t think things are as bad as 2008, 2016 and 2022…
it’s the same with cruises. Best cabins in the better ships snapped up quickly. Plenty of people with the moolah.