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On the Beach

March 2025

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  • Epic Code:
  • OTB
  • Price:
  • 225p
In the last year OTB has entered two new markets by adding Ireland and also rapidly scaling the City breaks proposition, launched in October (5,000 hotels now available to book), which alongside growth in its core beach proposition allowed it to maintain double digit TTV with 10% growth year-on-year so far. There was +18% growth for Winter 24/25 and +10% for Summer 25. One broker notes that it would have expected 30-40% of summer bookings to have been made by this point and, reflecting the industry-wide later booking trend confirmed by TUI and Jet2, the closer to departure March-June bookings are up 17%. Despite that trend, OTB is confident of delivering pretax profit of c£38m this year for EPS of18.6p. It has now completed ...

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