Europe is experiencing a 3% rise in outbound trip volume, despite a stagnation in outbound travel demand by Europe’s leading source markets, Germany and the UK – which, together, account for around 35% of total European outbound trips, according to the European Travel Monitor, issued as part of the World Travel Trends Report of ITB Berlin and IPK International.<\/p>\n
“Countries that have traditionally been considered as tourism destinations, such as Spain (+11%) and Italy (+7%), are now becoming leading outbound growth markets,” said Rolf Freitag, president and founder of IPK International and the World and European Travel Monitors. “Russia (+10%) has also continued to outpace the market generally,” said Freitag, “and other secondary markets such as Norway, Ireland and Sweden (all +5%) are performing above average.”<\/p>\n
Favorable exchange rates provided a major boost to outbound travel demand, with trips by Europeans to long-haul destinations growing by 4% as against +2% to destinations in Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The big winners of European travel, though, those recording more than 10% growth out of Europe, were China, Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam and Kenya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Europe is experiencing a 3% rise in outbound trip volume, despite a stagnation in outbound travel demand by Europe’s leading source markets, Germany and the UK – which, together, account for around 35% of total European outbound trips, according to the European Travel Monitor, issued as part of the World Travel Trends Report of ITB … <\/p>\n