{"id":516974,"date":"2020-11-11T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T22:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=516974"},"modified":"2020-11-11T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T22:12:01","slug":"covid19-travel-sentiment-monitor-october-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/covid19-travel-sentiment-monitor-october-report_516974.html","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Travel Sentiment Monitor &#8211; October Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing everyone to adapt to &ldquo;the new normal,&rdquo; many Americans are still exploring their own country and even beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/blog\/covid-19-travel-sentiment-monitor-october\">LuggageHero<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/blog\/covid-19-travel-sentiment-monitor-october\">&rsquo;s latest Travel Sentiment Monitor<\/a>, almost half of the American respondents are planning winter holidays.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/FBnj7HO.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"818\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Other key findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">1) While only 35% of the respondents had planned a domestic trip when 2020 had started, 48% have actually traveled inside the USA so far, due to the international travel restrictions. When it comes to the touristic destinations, cities have become less attractive, receiving only 21% of the respondents. That is in contrast to travelers&rsquo; original plans. At the beginning of this year, 62% had planned at least one city break for 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">2) As many as 45% of the American participants are still planning to go on winter holidays, with more than half wanting to travel only inside the USA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Since the pandemic lockdowns started, the short-term luggage storage company LuggageHero has regularly polled travelers in the United States, Europe and the rest of the world. This current customer survey was conducted October 20-26, 2020, via online forms and ensured gender and age balance. Here are the findings in detail for this month&rsquo;s perception, and you can also check out the reports for July, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/blog\/covid-19-travel-sentiment-monitor-may\/\">May<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/blog\/covid-19-travel-sentiment-monitor\/\">April<\/a> or <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/blog\/covid-19-impacts-travel-demand\/\">March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Year&rsquo;s Resolutions could not be realized <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though Americans have wished for many trips when this year started, the travel restrictions and health concerns have limited many of those wishes: while only 11% of the American participants in this month&rsquo;s survey had not planned a trip for 2020, three times more (36%) ended up staying home during the first 10 months of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In regards to those who did travel, 48% of the respondents have taken at least one trip inside the USA so far, a 13% raise from the plans prepared before the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YRGSXdY.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"845\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides distance, holiday styles have also adapted during 2020, bringing city breaks down to 21% of the Americans&rsquo; choice, a steep decrease from the 62% who expected to take a city break when health and travel restrictions were not such key points in planning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/je9mNK3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"normal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Travel to nature areas did not pick up much of the loss of city travel, as outdoors travel increased only 4% compared to initial plans.<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/luggagehero.com_59010.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">LuggageHero<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Mihai<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=covid19-travel-sentiment-monitor-october-report\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>City:<\/strong> New York City<br \/><strong>State:<\/strong> NY<br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/newyork\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/newyork\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"https:\/\/luggagehero.com\/newyork\/\" style=\"width:900px; height:400px;\"><\/object><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=covid19-travel-sentiment-monitor-october-report\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing everyone to adapt to &ldquo;the new normal,&rdquo; many Americans are still exploring their own country and even beyond. According to LuggageHero&rsquo;s latest Travel Sentiment Monitor, almost half of the American respondents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/covid19-travel-sentiment-monitor-october-report_516974.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435,423,432,403,404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Europe","category-Professional-Services","category-Travel","category-UK","category-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}