The tourism industry can look back on a successful year: 2018 worldwide have travelled to so many people abroad as never before. Especially travel fun of the Asians and Latin Americans.
Visitors in Rome, Italy
A year of travel with less fear of terrorism travel provides for a sharp rise in foreign. Thus, the current results of the World Travel Monitor®, published by the tourism consultancy IPK International. The last quarter is not evaluated, but all signs are pointing to success.
Tourists in Split, Croatia
Asia and Latin America are travel world Champions
With eight percent more trips abroad, the Asians and Latin Americans to lead you to the success list. Especially the Chinese and the Mexicans were on the way, other countries and other cultures. The willingness to travel of Europeans has increased between January and August of 2018 at five percent, the the North Americans to four percent.
Sightseeing in York, England
City breaks lose on travel – round trips are experiencing a Revival
For years, city breaks provided the largest increase, but this has changed to 2018, for the first time. The rate of increase was considerably lower than expected. “This could also be an effect of over-tourism, in the recent past in the media are ubiquitous, and travelers may be deterred to visit cities,” explains Rolf Freitag of IPK International. However, profited to a beach and seaside holidays, the rates for the first time in years, the growth of city breaks to overtake. On the other hand, the classical tour is making a Comeback with a Plus of four percent.
Sunset on the island of Santorini, Greece
Less fear of terrorist
The influence of terrorism risk on the travel behaviour has stabilised, according to IPK International on a slightly lower level. Compared with 41 percent the same time last year, now accounts for 38 percent of the international travelers that the recent terror alerts have affected your travel plans. To are, therefore, not travel, but was for the least number of respondents an Option. Rather, as safe perceived travel are preferred targets. Destinations with a very good security image,Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries as well as Canada and Australia, for example. But also Egypt and Tunisia could improve their to be more negative Image.
The beach holiday remains sought after
Turkey is recovering – Spain is stagnant
When traveling to Europe, the Turkey is almost 30 percent more visitors to the clear winner. Greece can look forward to a Plus of 19 per cent in the first eight months of the year. The UK recorded in the same period, around three percent less visitors. After years of strong growth to Spain, with a standstill is satisfied.
Sunrise in Munich, Germany
Positive Outlook for 2019
And the success story continues, so that at least the tourism experts of IPK International, a expect. They predict a rise in overseas travel by about six percent.
The World Travel Monitor® is based on 500.000 representative Interviews in more than 60 markets worldwide, and is performed for more than 20 years and is considered to be the largest ongoing survey on global travel trends.