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Positive forecast related to summer tourism

Monday, February 14, 2022

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As per the recent data from the European Travel Commission (ETC), published in the “Monitoring Sentiment for Domestic and Intra-European Travel – Wave 10”, on holidays, Europeans are willing to spend more time and at the same time spend more, while acknowledging that, due to the disturbance of the latest coronavirus variant, Europeans are once again engulfed in uncertainty when it comes to travelling.


The report notes that “fragmented policies across Europe regarding the validity period of the EU COVID Digital certificate for national use also undermined its role as a tool to facilitate travel (11% decrease compared to September 2021)”. In addition, a rising number of Europeans consider that stringent rules at destinations “have a direct negative effect on their travel experiences”.


Europeans due to this are keeping away from making concrete plans in terms of travel bookings, estimating that “hesitation about when to travel has increased from 11% in September 2021 to 21% in December. Already 36% of travellers plan to go on holiday in May or June 2022, but only 17% have already fully booked their next trip.”


However, ETC notes that more than half (61%) of Europeans by June 2022 are quite hopeful about travelling, demonstrating “continued resilience despite the disruption caused by Omicron”. For 50% of the travellers, Intra-European travel remains the preferred choice.


Among the travellers surveyed, to stay longer and spend more in the chosen destination is yet another positive trend, relating this aspect “with a growing desire to travel at the beginning of the summer”, says ETC. Compared to the previous analysis, the preference for trips of more than 10 nights increases by 38%, while the share of travellers planning to spend more than €2,000 grows by 31%, in particular among those with travel plans in May or June 2022.

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