French property and Spanish property remain the top choice among UK tourists, new statistics have revealed.

Newly-published figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have shown that travel to the two countries is as popular as ever among Brits, with French property and Spanish property gaining the lion’s share of UK tourism.

Despite an overall drop of 0.6 per cent year on year for travel in 2008, 36 per cent of all tourists from the UK elected to holiday in French property and Spanish property, according to write-about-property.com.

Italy property and Portugal property also featured in the ONS top ten, coming in at numbers five and seven, respectively.

Other popular destinations for British tourists in 2008 included the US at number three, Ireland at four and Germany at seven.

Director of propertyabroad.com Les Calvert recently suggested that investors could snap up a bargain French property as the country is currently going through a property price slump.

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