For second-tier airports in southeast England, the airlines’ summer season has begun with a bonanza of new routes.

Gatwick gets a trio of Arabian destinations: Jeddah and NEOM Bay in Saudi Arabia, plus Bahrain. It also has the first UK scheduled link to the Cape Verde Islands, with easyJet flying to Sal.

The UK excels at exporting tourists: for the past 75 years the British travel industry has flourished by taking us to locations agreeably closer to the equator.

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