The Times view on Brexit and summer holiday jobs: Seasons in the Sun – The Times

There were about 12,000 British holiday reps six years ago now there are only about 3,700

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The presence of British reps usually young, always enthusiastic at foreign holiday resorts has been a feature of summer breaks since the advent of mass overseas tourism in the 1960s. Skilled at standing at the front of a swaying coach somewhere in the Mediterranean littoral shouting into a microphone, they are relentlessly optimistic by day and keenly oversexed by night. Repping has offered generations of extroverts a place in the sun. In 2017, almost 12,000 Brits worked abroad as liaison officers, sports instructors, nannies and chalet staff, the perks far outweighing the risible pay. This year that will drop to 3,700.

Holiday companies blame post-Brexit bureaucracy, which has made seconding British staff to the EU more complex. Employing Brits has become so

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