Airports have been chaotic, flight prices are soaring, and your Instagram feeds are filled with trip after trip. It seems as though the entire world is excited to be traveling again after the pandemic, or so we thought. There’s a group of people who say they’ll “never travel” again.
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What the survey says
In a survey of 16,000 adults in 15 countries conducted by Morning Consult, Asia has the highest amount of respondents who say they will never travel again.
According to Morning Consult’s “The State of Travel & Hospitality” report, 15% of South Korean and 14% of Chinese respondents say they won’t travel again. 14% of American and 11% of Mexican respondents said the same.
At 35%, Japan has the highest percentage of respondents who have no intention of traveling again.
The survey asked about leisure travel and didn’t specify between domestic or international trips, according to Lindsey Roeschke, a travel and hospitality analyst at Morning Consult.
Respondents were surveyed in April and July of this year, and in that time, there was a 7-point increase in Japanese respondents who said they would travel in the next three months. An increase of 4 points was seen in Japanese respondents saying they would travel in the next 12 months. The number of Japanese respondents saying they would never travel again stayed the same.
Although about 45% of Japanese respondents say they would travel in the next year, this percentage falls behind China (65%) and South Korea (66%).
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