Buy Someone Else’s Holiday

How the travel resale market really works – and why flexibility matters more than money

At first glance, buying someone else’s holiday sounds like a party trick. A headline-friendly curiosity, one of those stories you read, nod at politely, and then forget. Surely travel doesn’t work like that. Surely flights, hotels and holidays aren’t something you just pick up second-hand, like a used jacket or a camera lens.

And yet, that is exactly wha…