Today’s under-18s are significantly better travelled than their parents’ generation, according to research published by Sainsbury’s Travel Insurance, with 69% of parents in Britain saying that their children have travelled overseas more often than they had at the same age.
The study highlights a continual reduction in the average age at which people take their first trip abroad, from aged 12 for those now over 65 to less than four years of age for under-18s.
According to parents, more than a quarter of those who are under-18 have visited another country before their second birthday and 63% have done so by the time they were 10.
Amongst globetrotting children, 81% have travelled abroad with their parents and 35% with their school. More than a quarter (27%) have taken a long-haul flight and 11% have been overseas with their friends or friend’s parents. An independent 9% have even travelled alone as an unaccompanied minor.
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