This year, too, long-term vacation planning was hardly possible due to the coronavirus pandemic and the associated travel restrictions. What specific vacation plans do Austrians have for the summer and what they will travel from now on do differently, the mobility club wanted to find out with this year's travel monitoring.
A key result: "Spontaneity is also necessary this year: one in four people planning to travel is making their summer vacation dependent on the Corona situation and wants to wait and see how the situation develops - that's ten percent more than in 4," explains ÖAMTC tourism expert Magdalena Draxler.
“At the time of the survey in early/mid-May, only 40 percent had already booked their planned main summer vacation. Among families with children, one in two had already made a decision.” However, the majority of respondents were also confident that their vacation will come about in the planned form - a third, however, were more pessimistic.
But the summer vacation itself is very popular, with 72 percent the majority of Austrians willing to travel plan at least a several-day break between June and September. The longing for the sea seems particularly great this year - 37 percent of those surveyed are aiming for a beach visit, closely followed by a vacation at the lake or in the mountains. Family visits or active holidays were only named fourth and fifth respectively.