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TripBarometer
The world’s largest accommodation and traveller survey*

ASIA & AUSTRALASIA EDITION
MARch 2015

GLOBAL TRAVEL ECONOMY

Globally, travel spending is up for 2015.
2015 global travel budgets
Why some APAC travellers
will spend more:

26%

41%
37%

41%

37%


23%
10%

Why some APAC travellers
will spend less:

feel they deserve it

28%

are going to a
dream destination

haven’t saved
enough money

26%

have been saving

up for it

are visiting less
expensive countries

26%

are choosing cheaper
transportation

Spend More
Spend Same
Spend Less

Average number of international trips

Don’t Know

Global travellers:


APAC travellers:

+15% in 2015

+15% in 2015

Hoteliers everywhere are conident about 2015.
Some markets are more conident than others. How do we know?

The Hotelier Conidence Index.
And indexed them to compare key
tourism markets:

We started with 3 key measurements on a 5-point scale:
HOTELIER CONFIDENCE INDEX INDICATORS

MARKET RANKINGS

ASIA AND AUSTRALASIA


3.92 / 5.00

1. INDONESIA
2. INDIA
3. MEXICO

Optimism about
proitability

70%

4. SOUTH AFRICA
5. BRAZIL
LATIN AMERICA

3.94 / 5.00
21%

6. CARIBBEAN


9%
Pessimistic

7. UNITED STATES
Neutral

Optimistic

8. GREECE
9. TURKEY
10. THAILAND

2%
5%

Room rates

11. PORTUGAL
ASIA & AUSTRALASIA


3.52 / 5.00

12. AUSTRALIA

50%
Increasing
Staying the same
Decreasing

3.53 / 5.00

43%

Don’t Know

GLOBAL AVERAGE

3.51 / 5.00

13. AUSTRIA

14. CHINA
15. NEW ZEALAND
16. ARGENTINA

Investment
priorities
3.24 / 5.00

Highest increase
1. Online reputation management
2. Small scale renovations
3. Marketing/Advertising

17. IRELAND
18. SPAIN
EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
19. CANADA
20. GERMANY

Lowest increase

9. Room distribution
10. Large scale renovations
11. Staf hiring

21. UNITED KINGDOM
22. RUSSIA
23. MOROCCO
24. ITALY
25. SWITZERLAND
26. JAPAN
27. FRANCE

To see the full TripBarometer report and data, go to:
tripadvisor.co.uk/TripBarometer

Methodology: The Hotelier Conidence Index measures conidence levels across the global hotel sector. The resulting index ranks
27 major tourism markets based on proitability expectations, year-on-year shits in room rates and investment plans for 2015.
*Data based results from online survey of 10,261 accommodations and 34,016 travelers by TripAdvisor and Ipsos, collected
January–February 2015.


3.01 / 5.00