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| 2024 Travel Trends |
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| Expedia Group unveiled Unpack '24, a comprehensive look at what's motivating travelers and where they're going next year. Based on the company's unmatched first-party travel data, plus a global consumer survey of 20,000 travelers, Unpack '24 includes eight new travel trends for 2024, from top destinations to what's next in travel tech. Read more |
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| Thanksgiving Travel |
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| This year’s Thanksgiving forecast is an increase of 2.3% over last year and marks the third-highest Thanksgiving forecast since AAA began tracking holiday travel in 2000. The top two years were 2005 and 2019, respectively. Read more |
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| Global Air Cargo Trends |
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| The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released data for September 2023 global air cargo markets, showing continuing demand recovery. Read more |
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| U.S. Airline Employment Trends |
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| U.S. airline industry (passenger and cargo airlines combined) employment increased to 807,865 workers in September 2023, 2,939 (0.37%) more workers than in August 2023 (804,926) and 64,765 (8.72%) more than in pre-pandemic September 2019 (743,100). Read more |
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| Ground Transportation Study |
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| New findings emphasize post-pandemic travel recovery, sustainability and technology among the biggest changes and challenges Read more |
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| Thanksgiving Travel |
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| U.S. airlines are expecting nearly 30 million travelers over the 11-day Thanksgiving travel period (Nov. 17-27), which is an all-time high. Read more |
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| U.S. Airline Traffic Data |
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| U.S. airlines carried 83.1 million systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service passengers in August 2023, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). When adjusted for seasonality, August enplanements are up 1.7% from July and down 4.2% from the all-time high reached in January 2020. Read more |
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| Business Travel Trends |
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| After a slower regional rebound over the last few years, business travel spending in Europe is expected to surpass its pre-pandemic spending level of $391.9 billion USD in 2025, when spending is forecast to reach $414.9 billion. This is later than the forecast for global business travel recovery, which is expected to reach $1.5 trillion in 2024 − and grow to nearly $1.8 trillion by 2027. Read more |
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