Following the announcement that travel restrictions between
Europe and the US will soon be lifting, new research shows business travellers
are ready to travel again and are willing to embrace new technologies and share
health data in order to get back on the road.
A survey commissioned by Amadeus and conducted by Censuswide
polled 9,074 respondents who travelled abroad in the past 18 months across the
UK, Spain, Germany, Russia, France, India, the US and UAE. It found 77 per cent
of travellers are eager to travel in the next year, with 95 per cent willing to
share their personal information and health data for the use of digital health
passports.
Of those polled, half will be travelling for business to a
destination requiring a flight in the next year, though this falls to 44 per
cent for those in the UK. Europe is proving to be the top business destination,
with 40 per cent planning to travel there in the next year and more than a third
(34 per cent) expecting to take two trips in the same time frame. The continent
is also shaping up to be the top destination for global travellers (37 per
cent).
As business travel returns, survey respondents said they see
greater accessibility to green modes of transport, solar or wind-powered
technologies and making sustainable travel more cost competitive as the best
ways to help the industry become more sustainable long term.
Amadeus says it is working on solutions that will remove
complexities for travellers, particularly in the expense process. It is also fully
committed to NDC and recently launched a paper exploring the next steps for
accelerating the transformation of digital retailing through standardisation,
experimenting more and ongoing collaboration.
Amadeus will be on stand BTSG130 at Business Travel Show Europe
at ExCeL London from 30 September to 1 October.