travel predictions
Tourism Tidbits: Some of the Major Issues Facing the Travel Industry / Dr. Peter Tarlow
Dr. Peter Tarlow | February 2, 2024
Some of the Major Issues Facing the Travel Industry On the international front - View the world carefully. The political world will continue to be unstable and when instability hits people are less likely to spend money on luxury items such as travel. The world currently faces war in both Europe and the Middle East. Due to a perceived weak United States, the possibility of war also exists in the Asian Pacific and the Korean Peninsula. Crime is a major concern in Africa and Latin America, and after the October 7th massacre it is clear that terrorism is and can become a major problem in the Middle East, Europe, and North Americ...
Out of Autopilot and Into Our Best Life: Booking.com Shares Its Seven Predictions for Travel in 2024
October 19, 2023
The leading digital travel platform’s most extensive travel predictions research to date foresees travel as the primal pulse of life in the year ahead AMSTERDAM, 19 OCTOBER 2023 – As 2023 enters its final months and 2024 optimistically appears on the horizon, numbness and detachment loom as a result of the perma-crisis, including increased cost-of-living and climate change concerns. People around the world have emotionally checked out of the news agenda and events at home in order to take a much-needed breather. Where in years past travel has been a means to escape life, Booking.com is releasing research that shows that travel is ...
With So Many Headwinds, Why Are People Still Traveling?
STR | January 24, 2023
At the end of 2022, data and insights from STR showed the hospitality industry at substantial levels of performance recovery around the globe with no signs of demand significantly slowing. So, with rising inflation, record-high travel prices, flight disruptions and short-staffed hotels, why are people still traveling? This piece from STR provides some answers based on consumer research of more than 1,000 travelers at the end of November 2022. Rising inflation? No problem, travelers expect to spend more on travel. It appears that travelers are taking rising prices in stride. When asked about their expected spend in five maj...
Booking.com Shares Travel Predictions for 2023
October 21, 2022
Travelers are set to make 2023 a big year for getting out and exploring the world. Excited about the year ahead, Booking.com has conducted extensive research to reveal the travel trends of 2023, including where travelers want to go, their inspirations for traveling, and how budget plays a big role in their plans. 2023 will be the year of reimagining travel As the world adapts to “the new normal” following a period of limited international travel and national lockdowns, travelers are eager to get out and see the world in earnest. As travel restrictions and Covid testing become a thing of the past, research reveals that 73% of people...
Gettin’ the Groove Back: Booking.com’s 7 Predictions for the Triumphant Return of Travel in 2022
Booking.com | October 19, 2021
NEW YORK – October 19, 2021 –Along with practically every aspect of our lives, the course of travel has been redefined repeatedly over the past year and a half, with seismic shifts propelling us towards a continuously evolving version of the ‘new normal.’ A deepening and increasingly complex relationship with technology, a heightened awareness of the human impact on the planet and a renewed inspiration to take a stand on the important social justice movements of our time has made the world feel smaller and at the same time, infinitely vast. And while COVID-19 is not yet in the rearview mirror, an indefatigable sense of hope is beginni...
Labor Day Weekend Will Be Longer, Last-Minute and Quieter This Year
Travelocity | August 25, 2020
DALLAS, Aug. 25, 2020 - After a summer travel season that saw travelers largely reserving trips last minute, close to home and with safety top of mind, Labor Day weekend – the last hurrah of summer – is looking like it, too, will feel a bit different this year. As Travelocity® reveals its travel predictions ahead of the end-of-summer holiday, demand, search and survey data shows this Labor Day will be longer, socially distant and all-important with many families venturing out for possibly the first time all summer. A Travelocity survey in May1 revealed that most families were postponing or planning their first leisure trip during C...
Travel Predictions for Summer 2020 After Two Seasons of Pandemic and Social Unrest
Zongqing Zhou | June 16, 2020
By Dr. Zongqing Zhou It is relatively difficult to predict summer travel, particularly after the massive national protests that add a potentially tide-turning consumer psychological breaker. But, if the protests do not trigger a second wave of the pandemic, the threat of contamination by the coronavirus will be drastically reduced in the minds of the travelers and we may expect a more peaceful and steady increase of travel for the latter part of summer. We won't know, though, until the two-week window is over, which brings us to the end of June. To the contrary, if the protests induce a second wave of the pandemic, consumers will ...
Industry Experts at Preferred Hotels & Resorts Reveal Top Travel Trends and Hot Destinations for 2020
Preferred Hotels & Resorts | December 4, 2019
NEWPORT BEACH, CALIFORNIA – December 4, 2019: Travel and hospitality professionals across the globe are preparing to usher in a new decade of travel, focusing on up-and-coming destinations, increasingly popular lodging trends, and fresh ways to experience travel in a meaningful way that impacts the way people view the world. With more than 50 years of industry experience, the experts at Preferred Hotels & Resorts – the world’s largest independent hotel brand with more than 750 properties in 85 countries – are sharing their insights and tips for the year ahead. · CONSCIOUS TRAVEL – According to the Sustainab...
