Travellers from Taiwan, South Korea and Saudi Arabia are the most willing to get on an international flight when it's possible again, says online travel giant Agoda
Avid travellers around the globe are dying to know when it will be possible to cross the globe again. Top tourist destinations are empty of foreign visitors; Paris, in particular, is feeling the loss of its regular visitors from Asia. Will the Covid-19 pandemic reshape travelling habits?
A glance at the Agoda study provides a glimpse of what the future may hold. Roughly 51 per cent of Taiwanese travellers say they are ready to travel internationally again, as are 45 per cent of South Koreans and 43 per cent of Saudi Arabians.
Overall, 65 per cent of the travellers surveyed stated a preference for travelling domestically in the coming 12 months, meaning that only 35 per cent felt ready to travel internationally. Australians, for example, listed planned destinations in Southeast Asia, Eastern Asia and Europe.
Nevertheless, even the participants willing to travel internationally won't be travelling to the ends of the earth just yet. Nearly half (46 per cent) said they would not like to travel by air for more than three or four hours at present.
