Universities are no longer (36) empty in summer. As the students move out, holiday-makers move in, even to the most unlikely (37) . What started in a small way a few years ago with student (38) being used as cheap bed-and-breakfast places for (39) groups, often old or foreign, is now changing as more and more universities begin to enter the package holiday business.
Three years ago most universities had to find ways of (40) more income after government spending cuts in the university sector. Universities with suitable (41) are letting it as a place for a touring holiday or, in the most (42) schemes such as those in Aberdeen and Kent, building a (43) of visits around it.
(44) Prices range from the modest to the ridiculously cheap. Manchester University, for instance, offers a week’s accommodation in a self-catering flat for ＄23 a head, (45) . The welcome is warm and genuine, (46) .
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half the price of one night’s bed and breakfast in a first-c......