Visits to airline and hotel websites up as consumers are ready to travel post-pandemic
According to Similarweb’s 2022 Travel Industry Insights Report, since January, traffic to top domains in the car rental, hotel and vacation rental sectors has been at or above levels seen in those months during 2019.
Spend in hotel accommodations increased 138% from January to March 2022
With Omicron cases decreasing and travel restrictions dropping, spending for U.S. business travel has seen a huge growth in the past two months, according to the latest TripActions data.
Transactions have increased by 200 per cent since mid-January
The travel management company said that the volume of bookings had reached 61 per cent of 2019 levels for the week ending on 2 April.
Hotel bookings on course for quicker recovery in 2022. HotelHub, which provides technology for TMCs, said that global hotel transactions reached 87 per cent of 2019 volumes in March.
Travel problems could continue into summer. The travel industry cut thousands of jobs during the pandemic, but has struggled to recruit staff quickly enough.
Multigenerational family travel is booming. Families who may have put a reunion on hold in 2020 and 2021 are increasingly looking to reconnect with their loved ones through travel.
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