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 central result: "Spontaneity is also necessary this year: Every fourth person willing to travel makes their summer vacation dependent on the Corona situation and would like to wait and see how the situation develops - that is ten percent more than in 4," says ÖAMTC tourism expert Magdalena Draxler clear. 

“At the survey period in early / mid-May, only 40 percent had already booked their planned main summer vacation. After all, every second family with children was already committed. " 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.