ANTOR: Booking volumes surged in early February
Bookings in early February were at the highest point since the start of the pandemic, ANTOR research has found.
In the study commissioned with BVA-BDRC, there was an increase of three million bookings since September 2021.
The association has estimated that 9.2 million future international trips are currently booked, involving 26.1 million visits from British travellers, spread evenly throughout the first three quarters of 2022.
This represents an increase of 8.7 million traveller visits since September.
The key findings can be split into five main points which include insights from the UK public surrounding Covid sentiment, travel comfort levels, which demographic is driving growth, and the main barriers to travel.
Seventeen of the association’s members are in the top 20 destinations people will be travelling to in the next 12 months.
Firstly, the research revealed that the public are more positive about the situation in relation to Covid than at any point since the start of the pandemic (with the exception of May 2021).
This translates to the highest comfort levels with overseas travel and travel by air since this was first measured in November 2020.
The positive indicator was driven by a spike in bookings in January 2021, following restrictions around overseas travel being lifted and continuing through February.
Most world destinations have benefitted from the increased confidence, in particular Spain where bookings have almost doubled since September.
It found the leading barriers to travel are personal finances, the threat of quarantine and the hassle of testing rather than the fear of catching Covid.
The research also found that Spain, France and Germany are among the top four destinations for 2022.
ANTOR’s UK members comprise national and regional tourist offices which are represented in the United Kingdom.
ANTOR celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2022.
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