Global Travel Trends 2007 World Travel Monitor® Results (preliminary 2007 data) from IPK International for the ITB Berlin Message, 03/05/2008 World Travel Trends European Travel Trends German Travel Trends The results presented are based on IPK’s World Travel Monitor®, the world’s sole and largest tourism study monitoring the pulse of international tourism. The World Travel Monitor® data derives from population-representative surveys taken in the individual source markets around the globe. More than 500,000 interviews are conducted every year. IPK INTERNATIONAL Tourism Consulting Group Gottfried-Keller-Str. 20 D-81245 Munich / Germany Tel: +49 (89) 829237-0 Fax: +49 (89) 829237-26 Web: www.ipkinternational.com E-Mail:
[email protected] Tourism Research ▪ Tourism Marketing ▪ World Travel Monitor® World Travel Trends On the global level, outbound trips rose by +6% in 2007, thus more strongly than the previous year. This growth was above all fueled by further overall positive economic growth, as well as the fact that increasingly more people, especially in populous Asia, can afford to travel abroad. All continents registered an increase in outbound travel in 2007. Asia recorded the highest increase (+10%), followed by America (+7%) and Africa (5%). Yet also Europe, already having a high outbound travel intensity, recorded an increase of +5%. 2 European Travel Trends In 2007, the Europeans took a total of 407 million The most dynamic European source market with outbound trips (+5% over the previous year), 16% more trips in 2007 was Russia, followed by thereby spending 3.9 billion nights abroad (+5%). Spain (+15%) and Poland (+14%).