Whilst it’s certainly becoming tougher to take more holidays with travel companies folding under the pressure of rising fuel costs we are still able to carry on taking our yearly holidays. These holidays may be returning back to the typical two weeks off in the summer months and moving away from the odd week here and there wherever the budget flights company has ferried us to but we’re luckily able to go on holiday when we please for now.

For many of us we are in fact having to remove more exotic destinations from our list of places we want to visit next year in favour of the more safer option of Spain and the rest of the Mediterranean hotspots, but there’s one group who are shunning this approach and going further afield than ever before in their lives.

The group I’m talking about is the over 50s. The over 50s have been taking increasingly more adventurous holidays over the past 12 months with many of them travelling to America in great numbers. The number of UK residents who travelled to the United States had increased by 2% and the majority of this increase comprised of older holidaymakers.

It’s not just the holidays in USA that older travellers are venturing to; there are plenty of other destinations such as South Africa, South East Asia and Australia which have grown in popularity. The idea that people are able to freely afford these destinations is a bit of wonderment at the moment.

The over 50s have actually got more money to spend on cheap holidays with more disposable income than in the past; it may be a part of living out their later years going where they please. Many mature travel firms actually offer great package holidays for older travellers and could probably attribute to the increase in holidays being taken by older travellers.

So while the rest of us are struggling to save up for that few weeks in the sun next year there’s every chance that our parents and even grandparents will be going somewhere amazing next year and being able to afford it without breaking the bank!