60% of Americans who have traveled overseas plan to head abroad in 2021
New York - 3 June 2021 - A new survey of 400 Americans who regularly travel overseas shows enormous pent-up demand to jump on a plane after 14 months of travel lockdowns and quarantines due to COVID-19. 60% of those surveyed said they planned to travel overseas in 2021, while another 21% said they were still considering their overseas travel plans. Only 19% said that they planned to stay grounded for the balance of the year.
The survey conducted by LuggageToShip using the polling service Pollfish surveyed 400 Americans who had traveled overseas in the past five years. The respondents were equally divided between men and women.
Other key findings from the survey are that travelers' most significant concerns about voyaging overseas in 2021 were:
- Hassle of local quarantines and disruption to flights – 30%
- Risk of COVID infection in the destination country – 26%
- Risk of COVID infection while flying – 23%
- Lack of available flights post-COVID – 18%
The survey also revealed a very significant variation in how Americans perceive the COVID-safety of different regions of the world. When the survey asked participants to rank regions on a scale between 1 star as "Not Safe" to 5 stars "Very Safe":
- Europe received 4 stars, with 60% giving it 4 of 5 stars
- The United Kingdom also received 4 stars, with 56% awarding the U.K. 4 or 5 stars
- Mexico and Central America received 3 stars, with only 37% giving the region 4 or 5 stars
- Northeast Asia received a rating of 3 stars, with only 37% giving it a rating of 4 or 5 stars
- Southeast Asia also received 3 stars, with 36% awarding the region a rating of 4 or 5 stars
- Russia and Eastern Europe also received a rating of 3 stars, with 33% giving it a 3-star COVID safety rating
- South America received a rating of 2 stars, with 53 percent giving it only 1 or 2 stars
- Africa also received an average 2-star rating, with 47% of Americans giving it a 1- or 2-star COVID safety rating
- The Middle East received a rating of only 1 star, with 48 percent giving the region a 1- or 2-star rating
- And India, which has experienced a highly publicized recent outbreak of COVID, received 1 star, with 50% of Americans labeling it as "Not Safe."
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