Feeling the Strain? A Look at American Travelers’ Current Financial Sentiment

IMPORTANT: These findings are brought to you from our independent research, which is not sponsored, conducted or influenced by any advertising or marketing agency. The key findings presented below represent data from over 4,000 American travelers collected in February 23-25, 2022.

While 41.2% of American travelers still agree now is a good–or very good–time to spend on travel and 61.5% continue to say that travel will be a high budget priority over the next three months, be it due to inflation or gas prices, some financial strain is beginning to be evident in American travel sentiment, including:

• The percent of American travelers with at least one leisure trip planned in the next 12 months dropped six points in the last month to 87.2%
• American travelers who feel that they/their household will be financially better off a year from now has dropped to 39.2% from 45.1% at the end of January
• Expectations to travel more (35.9%) and spend more on travel (36.7%) this year compared to last year have both dipped.
• The amount that Americans estimate they will spend on their travel this year fell to $3,788 from $4,283 reported the week of February 14th.
• 58.5% of American travelers say travel prices are too high right now.
• One-third of American travelers (33.6%) report that high travel prices have kept them from traveling in the past month.

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