LIST: CHRISTMAS SHOPPING BREAK OPERATORS
These are UK-based tour operators and specialist travel agencies featuring Christmas shopping breaks to overseas (especially European) cities and towns with christmas markets or popular shopping areas and malls.
| Auto Plan Holidays | 01543 257777 | Self-drive breaks in the Christmas Markets of Belgium & Germany. |
| Crystal Holidays | 0870 888 0252 | Crystal offer christmas market breaks to Vienna and Prague in their Lakes & Mountains programme. |
| Emagine | 0870 9025399 | Christmas market shopping in Gothenburg, Sweden. |
| German Travel Centre | 020 8429 2900 | One-night short breaks to Christmas Markets throughout Germany |
| Gold Crest | 01943 433457 | Specialist in European short breaks by coach with a programme of Christmas Market breaks in eleven cities. |
| Leger Holidays | 0800 018 98 98 | Christmas markets & pre-xmas shopping holidays in the UK and by coach to popular markets all over the continent including: Aachen, Cologne, Frankfurt, and Heidelburg in Germany; Bruges in Belgium; Valkenburg in Holland; Lille and Rheims in France; Prague in the Czech Republic; and Salzburg in Austria. |
| Russell Hafter Holidays | 01946 861652 | Shopping breaks to Christmas markets all over Germany (there are over 35 towns with xmas markets). |
| T4 Travel | 01223 560513 | This group tours specialist has a 3/4-day christmas market tour to Aachen in Germany. |
| Thomas Cook |
0871 895 0055 |  TC has a good selection of breaks to Christmas Markets across Europe. |
| Titan Hitours | 01293 440033 | Titan Hitours has a dedicated 'Christmas & New Year' brochure with 18 tours to cities around the world, including xmas shopping trips to Dresden, London & Las Vegas. |
| Travelsphere | 0800 567 7372 | Escorted tours to Christmas markets in Europe. |
Notes
- The six historic German cities of the Rhine/Moselle region market themselves as the Romantic Cities Through their website they offer their own short-break accommodation packages (based on Ryanair flights into Frankfurt-Hahn) to their traditional Christmas Markets.
- Christmas-Markets.org is a new (Nov 06) web site that lists Advent and Christmas Markets by destination and tourist attractions offering festive events leading up to Christmas.